Jerome Harris

Jerome Harris is an American jazz musician specializing in electric and acoustic bass guitar, electric guitar, voice, and occasionally lap steel and small percussion.
He came to prominence in 1978 playing bass guitar and guitar with tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, with whom he would perform and record intermittently until the mid-1990s. Harris went on to work with drummers Jack DeJohnette, Paul Motian, Bob Moses and Bobby Previte, clarinetist David Krakauer, trombonist Ray Anderson, pianist/organist/vocalist Amina Claudine Myers, and saxophonist/clarinetists Don Byron and Marty Ehrlich, among others.
Harris has recorded four albums as a bandleader. Hidden in Plain View (1995), a tribute to saxophonist Eric Dolphy, is described by critic Michael G. Nastos as "the finest [recording] of Harris' small discography."

As Leader

• 1986: In Passing (Muse)
• 1986: Algorithms (Polygram)
• 1995: Hidden in Plain View (New World)
• 1999: Rendezvous (Stereophile)

With Jack DeJohnette

• 1997 Oneness

With Robert Dick

• 1994: Third Stone from the Sun (New World)

With Bill Frisell

• 1985: Rambler

With Julius Hemphill

• 1988 Julius Hemphill Big Band

With Jon Hassell and Brian Eno

• 1980: Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (Editions EG)

With David Krakauer

• Pruflas: Book of Angels Volume 18 (Tzadik, 2012) composed by John Zorn

With Paul Motian

• 2005 Garden of Eden (ECM)

With Bobby Previte

• 1990: Empty Suits (Gramavision)
• 1991: Music of the Moscow Circus (Gramavision)
• 1994: Slay the Suitors (Avant)
• 1997: My Man in Sydney (Enja)
• 1998: Dangerous Rip (Enja)

With Hank Roberts

• Birds of Prey (JMT, 1990)

With Sonny Rollins

• 1978: Don't Stop the Carnival
• 1984: Don't Ask
• 1987: Dancing in the Dark
• 1991: Falling in Love with Jazz
• 1991: Here's to the People

With George Russell

• 1983: Live in an American Time Spiral

With Bob Stewart

• Goin' Home (JMT, 1989)