"Of course I had to get the money together to record the CD too. ![]() we understood the tunes together," he said. "I put this band together three years ago to record this album originally but there needed to be a process of growth together where. He found support in his fans, raising more than $6,000 through Kickstarter. The album also features saxophonist Brandon Wozniak, who performs with Harris in the Atlantis Quartet.Īlthough the musicians have worked with each other various projects for a while, Harris first needed to raise the money to record the new album. Bates, he delivers a strong album of nine originals and a standard, "Softly As A Morning Sunrise." Backed by pianist Bryan Nichols, bassist Chris Bates and drummer J.T. The music, played before only a handful of people, was alive with rhythmic and modern intensity - and crowd-pleasing riffs.įor Harris, the show was a perfect tune up to his big debut Friday and Saturday, when the Zacc Harris Group will perform tunes from The Garden, newly released on Paradigm Records. In a show last week with the trio Vital Organ, he swept through a set of classic compositions - Montgomery's "Roadhouse," Milt Jackson's "SKJ" and "Airegin" by Sonny Rollins - in a rollicking dialogue with Jason Craft on the Hammond 3.īut their battles on John Scofield's "Do Like Eddie" plus the Vital Organ tunes "Tippy's Theme" and "Stew's Blues" best showed how the players are adept at putting a modern and competitive spin on their exchanges - an art lost in modern pop, where instrumental solos have all but disappeared. That he developed a unique voice will come as no surprise to anyone who has heard the guitarist perform. Paul's Artist Quarter, sharing original compositions that reflect a variety of influences, but aren't wed to any of them. This weekend, Harris will show how he breaks musical barriers when he debuts a new album at St. It needs to evolve because people want to hear new things - and I think that it's important for the musicians to keep pushing those boundaries." "But that doesn't mean the music has to live in a museum, where it has to sound like that. "For anybody to be a great jazz musician you have to check that stuff out and learn how those guys did it and the vocabulary. "We all, of course, have reverence and respect for where this music came from," said Harris, a co-leader of several Twin Cities jazz projects. On stage, Harris makes his own mark on standards with enough new hooks to keep jazz alive - no easy trick in a time of short attention spans and computer-generated beats. In Extremely Fine condition, and US$80.In the opening moments of a set, jazz guitarist Zacc Harris knows he only has so much time to prove himself.įor even the smallest of audiences, he aims to breeze through music popularized by virtuosos of a distant era, storied players like Wes Montgomery, the master who many have sought to emulate. US$3.50 in Fine condition, US$7.00 in Very Fine condition, US$35.00 According to theĢ010 Standard Catalog of World Coins, an example is worth about The date, and "ZUID AFRIKA" (Afrikaans for "South Africa") aboveĨ21,000 of these coins were produced in 1934. ![]() The reverse has an image of a standingįemale figure leaning on an anchor, with the words "SOUTH AFRICA", ![]() The obverse of the coin has a portrait of King George the FifthĪnd the words "GEORGIVS V REX IMPERATOR" (Latin for "George theįifth, King and Emperor"). With silverĪt US$17.32 per troy ounce (as of March 8, 2010), the "melt value" It an ASW (Actual Silver Weight) of 0.1456 troy ounces. The coin weighs 5.66 grams and is 80.0% silver, giving You are asking about a Shilling coin from South Africa
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