Bob Harris (musician)
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
- Fillmore East - June 1971(1971)
- You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 (1992)
- Playground Psychotics (1992)
- Finer Moments (2012)
- Mudshark Live (2015)
With Plastic Ono Band
- Some Time in New York City (1972)