Harrison Bankhead
Harrison Bankhead (born in Waukegan, Illinois)[1] is an American jazz double-bassist.
Bankhead became associated with the Chicago jazz scene in the early 1980s.[2] He became associated early in his career with Fred Anderson, playing frequently with Anderson on tour as well as at Anderson's Chicago club, the Velvet Lounge.[3] In addition to Anderson, Bankhead has worked with Oliver Lake, Roscoe Mitchell, Von Freeman, Malachi Thompson, 8 Bold Souls, and Hamid Drake, and is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. His first album as a leader, Morning Sun/Harvest Moon, was released on Engine, a sublabel of ESP-Disk, in 2011, and featured sidemen Edward Wilkerson, Jr., Mars Williams, James Sanders, Avreeayl Ra, and Ernie Adams.[4] He followed this with Velvet Blue, with Wilkerson, Williams, and Ra, whose name and title track pay tribute to Fred Anderson and the Velvet Lounge.[5]
Discography
As leader
- Morning Sun/Harvest Moon (Engine Studios, 2011)
- Velvet Blue (Engine Studios, 2013)
With Malachi Thompson
- The Jaz Life (Delmark, 1992)
- Lift Every Voice (Delmark, 1993)
- Buddy Bolden's Rag (Delmark, 1995)
- 47th Street (Delmark, 1997)
- Freebop Now! (Delmark, 1998)
- Rising Daystar (Delmark, 1999)
- Talking Horns (Delmark, 2001) with Hamiet Bluiett and Oliver Lake
- Blue Jazz (Delmark, 2003) with Gary Bartz and Billy Harper
With others
- Fred Anderson/Harrison Bankhead - The Great Vision Concert (Ayler Records, 2007)
- Nicole Mitchell, Harrison Bankhead, Hamid Drake - Indigo Trio: Live in Montreal (2007)
- The Turbine!, Harrison Bankhead, Benjamin Duboc, Hamid Drake, Ramon Lopez - Entropy/Enthalpy (Rogueart, 2015)
- Shanta Nurullah's Sitarsys, ''Sitar Black'' (Storywiz, 2016)
References
- ^ Harrison Bankhead at Allmusic
- ^ Piotr Michalowski, Bass Is The Place. Ann Arbor Observer, October 2014.
- ^ Lyn Horton, Review of Morning Sun/Harvest Moon. JazzTimes, August 9, 2011.
- ^ Peter Margasak, Three Beats: Bassist Harrison Bankhead finally releases an album of his own. Chicago Reader, July 28, 2011.
- ^ Peter Margasak, Bassist Harrison Bankhead, back in front. Chicago Reader, January 24, 2014.