That Is Why You're Overweight
1976 studio album by Eddie Harris
That Is Why You're Overweight | ||||
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Studio album by Eddie Harris | ||||
Released | 1976 | |||
Recorded | 1975 The Village Recorder, Los Angeles and Brunswick Recording Studios, Chicago | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 42:53 | |||
Label | Atlantic SD 1683 | |||
Eddie Harris chronology | ||||
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That Is Why You're Overweight is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1975 and released on the Atlantic label.[1][2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] |
The Allmusic 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".[3]
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
- Eddie Harris – tenor saxophone, electric piano, vocals
- Ronald Muldrow – guitar, guitorgan vocals
- Bradley Bobo – bass, 6 string bass, vocals
- Paul Humphrey, Terry Thompson – drums
- Buck Clarke – bongos, percussion, tambourine
- 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 – organ (track 5)
- Lou Gonzales, Joe Romano – trumpet, flugelhorn (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, 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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- Exodus to Jazz (1961)
- Mighty Like a Rose (1961)
- Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)
- A Study in Jazz (1962)
- Eddie Harris Goes to the Movies (1962)
- Bossa Nova (1963)
- For Bird and Bags (1964)
- Cool Sax, Warm Heart (1964)
- Here Comes the Judge (1964)
- Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway (1965)
- The In Sound (1965)
- Mean Greens (1966)
- The Tender Storm (1967)
- The Electrifying Eddie Harris (1968)
- Plug Me In (1968)
- Silver Cycles (1968)
- Free Speech (1969)
- Come On Down! (1970)
- Second Movement (1971)
- Instant Death (1971)
- Eddie Harris Sings the Blues (1972)
- Excursions (1973)
- E.H. in the U.K. (1974)
- Is It In (1974)
- I Need Some Money (1974)
- Bad Luck Is All I Have (1975)
- That Is Why You're Overweight (1975)
- The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t 1976 (1975)
- How Can You Live Like That? (1976)
- I'm Tired of Driving (1978)
- Playin' with Myself (1979)
- Sounds Incredible (1980)
- Steps Up (1981)
- The Real Electrifying Eddie Harris (1982)
- High Voltage (1969)
- Swiss Movement (1969)
- Live at Newpoart (1970)
- Pourquoi L'Amérique (1968)
- Soul to Soul (1971)