Dickie Harris

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Richard "Dickie" Harris (also Dicky Harris , born November 15, 1918 in Montgomery , Alabama , † June 8, 2009 ) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( trombone ).

Live and act

Harris worked from the early 1940s with Erskine Hawkins (1941-1943), Earl Hines and His Orchestra (1944/45), in the post-war years in the orchestras of Jimmie Lunceford and Sy Oliver . He was also a member of the combos of Arnett Cobb , Illinois Jacquet , Joe Thomas , Willis Jackson , JC Heard , Buck Clayton and Bill Doggett . He performed with Sarah Vaughan at Café Society for three years and was also involved in her early 1947 recordings for Musicraft (" I Cover the Waterfront "). In Jimmy Jones' band he accompanied singer Dusty Fletcher on his cover version of Open the Door, Richard! , which came to # 2 on the Billboard Race Records chart . In the following years he worked as a session musician on recordings by Ella Fitzgerald , Lena Horne , Nat King Cole , Della Reese , Nipsy Russell , Don Covay , Sam Cooke , Ruth Brown , James Brown , Solomon Burke , Irene Reid , Diana Ross and numerous vocal groups With; he also toured with Sammy Davis, Jr. , in 1978 with Oliver Jackson in France.

Harris played in Broadway orchestras for twenty years and taught the Magnet School program at Teaneck, New Jersey High School before retiring. He performed at Bistro 110 in Chicago in the later years . In 1979 he was honored with induction into the Birmingham Jazz Hall of Fame . The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in 71 recording sessions between 1941 and 1982, u. a. also with Cootie Williams , Dud Bascomb , Reuben Phillips and Jack McDuff .

Dickie Harris should not be confused with the pedal steel guitar player of the same name from Ernest Tubb & the Texas Troubadours.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard "Duickie" Harris obituary. Local 802 Musicians' Union, May 9, 2009, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 17, 2019)
  3. ↑ Dickie Harris (country musician) at Allmusic (English)
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Dickie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harris, Richard; Harris, Dicky
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and rhythm & blues musician (trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Montgomery , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2009