''That Is Why You're Overweight'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist

Eddie Harris Eddie Harris (October 20, 1934 – November 5, 1996) was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-k ...

recorded in 1975 and released on the

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Reception

The

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review stated: "Some of this stuff hits, some of it misses... all of it suggests that Harris' curiosity and impatience had him flailing around in search of a direction".Ginell, R. S
Allmusic Review
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Track listing

''All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated'' # "It's All Right Now" – 3:56 # "Why Do You Hurt Me" (Harris, Bradley Bobo) – 4:19 # "Flowers" – 4:59 # "That Is Why You're Overweight" (Harris, Sara Harris, Yvonne Harris) – 7:25 # "Tryin' Ain't Dyin'" – 7:30 # "Live Again" (Ronald Muldrow) – 4:18 # "Ooh" – 2:49 # "Exempt" – 7:37

Personnel

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into ele ...

, vocals * Ronald Muldrow – guitar, guitorgan vocals *Bradley Bobo –

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, 6 string bass, vocals *Paul Humphrey, Terry Thompson – drums *Buck Clarke –

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, percussion,

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*Calvin Barnes – drums, percussion, vocals *Marshall Thompson – percussion (track 5) *Bob Ramey – rhythm synthesizer (track 1) * Muhal Richard Abrams (track 5), Bobby Lyle (track 2) – electric piano *

Odell Brown Odell Elliott Brown Jr. (February 2, 1940 – May 3, 2011) was an American jazz organist. He was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing soul jazz and jazz funk with his backing band as Odell Brown & the Organ-Izers. Biography Brown was ...

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(track 5) *Lou Gonzales, Joe Romano – trumpet,

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

(tracks 2, 4 & 8) * Burgess Gardner, Frank Gordon – trumpet (track 5) *Steve Galloway (track 5), Al Hall Jr. (tracks 2, 4 & 8), Maurice Spears (tracks 2, 4 & 8) – trombone *Delbert Hill –

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

, oboe, bassoon, tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 4 & 8) *Willie Henderson – baritone saxophone (track 5) *Edmund Lee Bauer, Sol Bobrov, E. Zlatoff Mirsky – violin (track 5) *Bruce K. Hayden, Harold H. Kupper – viola (track 5) *Karl B. Fruh – cello (track 5) *Vivian Harrell, Marilyn Haywood, Mary Ann Stewart, Stephana Loeb, Karen Patterson, Nancy Shanks – vocals *Gerald Lee – arranger

References

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