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Eddie Harris: A Primer

“I Don’t Want Nobody”

I Need Some Money (Atlantic, 1975)

I was overseas in a study program—I think it was in China—and they had a music store out there. I found by Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis’ , and Eddie Harris’ . The psychedelic sound, the trippy effects, really got me. “I Don’t Want Nobody” is incredible.]

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