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Exodus to Jazz

Exodus to Jazz
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Studio album by Eddie Harris
Released 1961
Recorded 1961
Genre Jazz
Length 34:43
Label Vee-Jay
VJLP 3016
Producer Sid McCoy
Eddie Harris chronology
Exodus to Jazz
(1961)
Mighty Like a Rose
(1961)
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Allmusic 5/5 stars

Exodus to Jazz is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1961 and released on the Vee-Jay label.

The Allmusic review states "Exodus to Jazz is full of concise, easy-swinging grooves that maintain the appealing quality of the strikingly reimagined title track (particularly Harris' four originals). Far removed from his later, funkier days, Harris plays a cool-toned tenor who owes his biggest debt to Stan Getz's bop recordings, though there are touches of soul-jazz as well... Exodus to Jazz paved the way for numerous other crossover successes during the '60s (many in the soul-jazz realm), and while that may not be a credibility-boosting trend to start, the music still speaks for itself".

All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated


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