Eddie Harris (b. Chicago, October 20 1936; d. November 5, 1996) was best known for playing tenor saxophone, though he was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. Harris also came up with the idea of the reed trumpet, playing one for the first time at The Newport Jazz Festival of 1970 to mostly negative critical feedback. His most well-known composition was ?Freedom Jazz Dance?, recorded and popularized by Miles Davis in the 1960s. Biography Harris grew up in Chicago. His father was originally from Cuba, and his mother from New Orleans. Like other successful Chicago musicians such as Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, Clifford Jordan, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Julian Priester, and Bo Diddley (among others), young Eddie studied music under Walter Dyett at DuSable High School. He later studied music at Roosevelt University, by which time he was proficient on piano, vibraphone, and tenor saxophone. While in college he perfo

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