Steve Harris (drummer)

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Steve Harris (* 1948 , † 11. January 2008 ) was a British avant-garde jazz - drummer , composer and band leader of the avant-garde jazz and new improvised music . He headed the Zaum formation .

biography

Steve Harris played drums in various experimental rock bands since the late 1960s, the band Woody Kern (around 1967) and the Amazorblades with Rik Kenton (who later played with Roxy Music ) in the mid-1970s. Harris then worked briefly with the Ganelin trio in the 1980s , later with the free funk and jazz band Pinksi Zoo and in 2002 founded the formation Zaum with Cathy Stevens (violectra), Geoff Hearn (saxophone), Karen Wimhurst (clarinet) and Udo Dzierzanowski (guitar) and Adrian Newton (live & found samples), who come from different musical areas such as funk, rock, R&B and classical music. Keyboarder and accordionist Andrea Parkins and drummer Jim Black as well as various singers also performed as guests . In the opinion of the authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton, Harris and his band Zaum developed the musical ideas of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble , ISKRA 1903 , AMM and Derek Baileys Company by adding electronic instruments such as samples .

Discographic notes

  • Bridle (Slam, 2002)
  • Above Our Heads The Sky Splits Opne (Slam, 2004)
  • Geoff Hearn and Harris: As Slow as Flowers (ZM product 2003)
  • hope you never love anything as much as I love you with Andrea Parkins (AMAZ)
  • the little flash of letting go (live at the spitz) (Spitz, 2005)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In 2006, in the eighth edition of their Penguin Guide to jazz Recordings, the authors awarded the album Above Our Heads The Sky Splits Opne (Slam, 2004) the highest rating with an additional crown.
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2008