Freedom Jazz Dance

Eddie Harris · 1965 · first version; album released in 1966

Context

Eddie Harris's first recording of his composition, the longest track on The In Sound, recorded in August 1965 with Cedar Walton, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins. The theme becomes a standard after Miles Davis covered it on Miles Smiles in 1966.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Soul jazz, boogaloo: Hard bop, Jump blues, R&B, Gospel.

By the same artist

• Compared to What (1969)

Sources

• EN: The In Sound (Eddie Harris album)
• EN: Eddie Harris

Jazzency text written from these pages. Method and licenses