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<p><b>Lafayette Harris</b> (* <a href="29._Mai" title="29. Mai">29. Mai</a> <a href="1963" title="1963">1963</a> in <a href="Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>) ist ein amerikanischer <a href="Jazzpiano" class="mw-redirect" title="Jazzpiano">Jazzpianist</a>. Von <a href="Chick_Corea" title="Chick Corea">Chick Corea</a>, <a href="McCoy_Tyner" title="McCoy Tyner">McCoy Tyner</a> und <a href="Kenny_Barron" title="Kenny Barron">Kenny Barron</a> beeinflusst hat er eine eigenständige und eloquente Stilistik entwickelt.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Wirken">Leben und Wirken</h2></div>
<p>Harris wuchs in seiner Heimatstadt auf, wo er als Jugendlicher in <a href="Funk_(Musik)" title="Funk (Musik)">Funk</a> und <a href="Popmusik" title="Popmusik">Popmusikgruppen</a> spielte. Dann studierte er, zunächst am <a href="Johns_Hopkins_University" title="Johns Hopkins University">Peabody Institute</a> und am <a href="Oberlin_College" title="Oberlin College">Oberlin College</a>, dann bei Kenny Barron an der <a href="Rutgers_University" title="Rutgers University">Rutgers University</a>. 1985 zog er nach <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, wo er Mitglied der <i>Moffett Family</i> wurde. Bald tourte er aber auch mit <a href="Max_Roach" title="Max Roach">Max Roach</a>, <a href="Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>, <a href="Jon_Hendricks" title="Jon Hendricks">Jon Hendricks</a>, <a href="Stanley_Turrentine" title="Stanley Turrentine">Stanley Turrentine</a>, <a href="Lionel_Hampton" title="Lionel Hampton">Lionel Hampton</a>, <a href="Al_Grey" title="Al Grey">Al Grey</a> und <a href="Donald_Byrd" title="Donald Byrd">Donald Byrd</a> durch Nordamerika und Europa. 1992 gastierte er mit <a href="Barbara_Morrison" title="Barbara Morrison">Barbara Morrison</a> und 1994/95 mit eigenen Bands auf europäischen Festivals. Weiterhin fungierte als musikalischer Leiter der Show <i>Songs My Mother Taught Me</i> mit <a href="Melba_Moore" title="Melba Moore">Melba Moore</a> und der Tanzshow <i>Cab Calloways Legacy of Swing</i>. Seit 2003 begleitete er immer wieder <a href="Ernestine_Anderson" title="Ernestine Anderson">Ernestine Anderson</a>. Auch war er an Aufnahmen von <a href="Slide_Hampton" title="Slide Hampton">Slide Hampton</a>, <a href="John_Gordon_(Posaunist)" title="John Gordon (Posaunist)">John Gordon</a>, <a href="Donald_Harrison" title="Donald Harrison">Donald Harrison</a>, <a href="Chico_Freeman" title="Chico Freeman">Chico Freeman</a>, <a href="Joe_Daley" title="Joe Daley">Joseph Daley</a> (<i><a href="Portraits%3A_Wind%2C_Thunder_and_Love" title="Portraits: Wind, Thunder and Love">Portraits: Wind, Thunder and Love</a></i>, 2014), Leon Dorsey oder Julian Coryell beteiligt und trat im Duo mit <a href="Roswell_Rudd" title="Roswell Rudd">Roswell Rudd</a> auf.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diskografie_(Auszug)"><span id="Diskografie_.28Auszug.29"></span>Diskografie (Auszug)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Lafayette Is Here</i> (<a href="Muse_Records" title="Muse Records">Muse</a>, 1993, mit <a href="Terell_Stafford" title="Terell Stafford">Terell Stafford</a>, <a href="Don_Braden" title="Don Braden">Don Braden</a>, <a href="Lonnie_Plaxico" title="Lonnie Plaxico">Lonnie Plaxico</a>, <a href="Cindy_Blackman" title="Cindy Blackman">Cindy Blackman</a>)</li>
<li><i>Happy Together</i> (Muse, 1996) mit <a href="Melba_Moore" title="Melba Moore">Melba Moore</a></li>
<li><i>Lafayette Is Here...Solo</i> (Airmen, 1998)</li>
<li><i>In the Middle of the Night</i> (Airmen, 2007, mit Ben Butler, Gary Hasse, <a href="Buddy_Williams_(Jazzmusiker)" title="Buddy Williams (Jazzmusiker)">Buddy Williams</a>, Cafe, Norman Hedman, <a href="Terell_Stafford" title="Terell Stafford">Terell Stafford</a>, <a href="Donald_Harrison" title="Donald Harrison">Donald Harrison</a>, Kevin Louis, Cleave Guyton, Ray Naccari, Mike Hammond, Omari Fonzarelli, <a href="Alyson_Williams" title="Alyson Williams">Alyson Williams</a>)</li>
<li><i>Trio Talk</i> (Airmen, 2008) mit <a href="Dwayne_Dolphin" title="Dwayne Dolphin">Dwayne Dolphin</a>, <a href="Winard_Harper" title="Winard Harper">Winard Harper</a></li>
<li><i>Bend to the Light</i> (Airmen 2015, sowie <a href="Lonnie_Plaxico" title="Lonnie Plaxico">Lonnie Plaxico</a>, <a href="Willie_Jones_(Schlagzeuger%2C_1968)" title="Willie Jones (Schlagzeuger, 1968)">Willie Jones III</a>, <a href="Thomas_Dyani" title="Thomas Dyani">Thomas Dyani</a> bzw. <a href="Jazzmeia_Horn" title="Jazzmeia Horn">Jazzmeia Horn</a>)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lexigraphische_Einträge"><span id="Lexigraphische_Eintr.C3.A4ge"></span>Lexigraphische Einträge</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Leonard_Feather" title="Leonard Feather">Leonard Feather</a>, <a href="Ira_Gitler" title="Ira Gitler">Ira Gitler</a>: <i>The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.</i> Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X.</li>
<li><a href="Martin_Kunzler" title="Martin Kunzler">Martin Kunzler</a>: <i>Jazz-Lexikon.</i> Band 1: <i>A–L</i> (= <i>rororo-Sachbuch.</i> Bd. 16512). 2. Auflage. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lafayetteharrisjr.com/">Internetpräsenz</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000103132">Diskographischer Eintrag bei</a> <a href="Allmusic" class="mw-redirect" title="Allmusic">Allmusic</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kunzler, Jazzlexikon</span>
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