Benny Harris (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Benny Harris (April 23, 1919, New York City - May 11, 1975, San Francisco) was an American bebop trumpeter and composer. A self-taught musician, in the mid-1930s Benny Harris was already playing with Thelonious Monk. In later years, he participated to some of the jam sessions that gave birth to the bebop jazz style. Reportedly, it was Harris that persuaded Dizzy Gillespie of Charlie Parker's ability by playing one of Parkers's improvisations to Gillespie.