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, , , and .^[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, , Hamid Drake, Ramon Lopez - Entropy/Enthalpy (RogueArt, 2015)

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