''Shelter'' is an album by trombonist
Craig Harris
Craig S. Harris (born September 10, 1953) is an American jazz trombonist, who started working with Sun Ra in 1976. He also has worked with Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Char ...
and Tailgaters Tales which was recorded in 1986 and released on the
JMT label.
[Shimada, T.]
JMT label discography
accessed October 3, 2014
Reception
The
AllMusic
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review by Brian Olewnick called it "An uneven set, but the highlights and generally fine level of playing make Shelter worth a listen, depending on one's tolerance for mawkishness".
[Olewnick, B.]
Allmusic Review
accessed October 3, 2014
Track listing
''All compositions by Craig Harris''
# "Africans Unite" – 4:42
# "Shelter Suite:" – 17:26
## "Shelter"
## "Subway Scenarios"
## "Sea of Swollen Hands"
## "Three Hots and a Cot"
## "Shelter (Reprise)"
## "Bags and Rags"
# "Cootie" – 7:12
# "Reminiscing" – 4:56
# "Sound Sketches" – 9:00
Personnel
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Craig Harris
Craig S. Harris (born September 10, 1953) is an American jazz trombonist, who started working with Sun Ra in 1976. He also has worked with Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Char ...
– trombone,
didgeridoo
The didgeridoo (; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by ...
*
Don Byron
Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer.
Biography
His mother w ...
– clarinet,
bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...
*
Eddie Allen – trumpet
*
Anthony Cox –
bass
*
Pheeroan Aklaff
Pheeroan akLaff (born Paul Maddox January 27, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He began playing in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan and Ann Arbor, with R & B keyboardist Travis Biggs, funk keyboardist Nimrod “The Grinder” ...
– drums
*Rod Williams – piano (track 1)
*Tunde Samuel – vocals (tracks 1 & 2)
References
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1987 albums
Craig Harris albums
JMT Records albums
Winter & Winter Records albums