Bob Harris (musician)

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Robert Maurice Harris (September 27, 1943 – August 11, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, keyboardist and arranger.

Career

Born in September 1943 in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of Maurice Harris, a trumpet player in

Jack Jones
.

Harris joined jazz guitarist

Sometime in New York City. He also appeared on the Zappa album Playground Psychotics where he was a soloist on the Wurlitzer Electric Piano on the song Billy the Mountain
.

At the end of the 1970s Harris toured with Ray Charles. He died in 2001 from the effects of a drug overdose.

This Bob Harris should not be confused with the unrelated keyboard player, trumpeter and singer Bob Harris who worked with Frank Zappa in 1980.

Discography

  • Friends of Distinction: Whatever 1970
  • Judee Sill: Judee Sill 1971

With

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

With Plastic Ono Band