Search - Artist/Band: Tom Harrell

• Name: Tom Harrell
• Birthday: 06/16/1946
• Birth Place: Urbana, IL
• Decades Active: 1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Post-Bop, Straight-Ahead Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
• Moods: Sophisticated, Ambitious, Amiable/Good-Natured, Brassy, Confident, Detached, Dramatic, Earnest, Earthy, Elaborate, Energetic, Exuberant, Freewheeling, Literate, Lively, Passionate, Playful, Provocative, Rousing, Searching, Stately, Stylish, Uplifting, Warm, Witty, Wry

Title	Release
Prana Dance	01/27/2009
Light On WA	06/26/2007
Sail Away [Contemporary]	09/23/2003
Wise Children WA	09/09/2003
Paradise WA	06/05/2001
Tom Harrell Jazz Originals	06/27/2000
Time's Mirror	09/14/1999
Art of Rhythm WA	02/24/1998
Look to the Sky WA	06/18/1996
Labyrinth WA	01/1996
Upswing WA	1993
Passages WA	1991
Visions WA	1991
Form	1990
Stories	1988
Open Air WA	05/26/1986
Moon Alley	12/22/1985
Moon and Sand
The Auditorium Session

Tom Harrell has managed to fight courageously (and successfully) against schizophrenia to become one of jazz's top trumpeters of the 1980s and '90s and well into the new millennium. On-stage, he is totally focused on his playing and seems to only come alive when he is improvising. Harrell grew up in Northern California and toured with Stan Kenton (1969), Woody Herman (1970-1971), and Horace Silver (1973-1977). He moved to New York in the mid-'70s, and played during this period with Cecil Payne, Bill Evans (1979), the Lee Konitz Nonet (1979-1981), and George Russell (1982). Harrell traveled the world with the Phil Woods Quintet (1983-1989) and went on to generally lead his own bands, recording for Contemporary and Chesky before landing at RCA for 1996's Labyrinth; subsequent outings include 1997's The Art of Rhythm, 1999's Time's Mirror, 2001's Paradise, and 2003's Wise Children. In 2007, Harrell moved to High Note and released Light On. In 2009, Harrell continued in a similar vein with the atmospheric Prana Dance. His style mixes together the power of Clifford Brown with the lyricism of Chet Baker. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide