Ike Harris, Bass

As one of the very few native sons of Nashville in the music business, Ike Harris has performed with an amazingly diverse variety of artists and ensembles during his career. You may find him in a club with a jazz group, in the studio with a country artist, in a classroom with music education majors, or on a concert stage with an orchestra.

On the Nashville side, he has worked with Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass, Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Brenda Lee, Pam Tillis, Jerry Reed, and Hank Williams Jr. Among jazz and big band notables

Ike has backed up the likes of Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Raney, Mundell Lowe, Ed Shaunessy, Urbie Green, Richie Cole, Bob Crosby, Buddy Morrow, Helen Forrest, and the Mills Bros., including entertainers Frankie Avalon, Danny Gans, and Phyllis Diller.

On the classical scene, he’s played in the orchestras of the Tennessee Philharmonic, Trevecca Symphony, Bowling Green Symphony, Nashville Symphony Pops, and other ensembles as the Nashville Wind Ensemble and the Nashville Chamber Players. In broadcasting, he’s been with the staff bands of WSM Radio and TV, and The Nashville Network. Also, he’s performed in the pit orchestras of numerous touring musicals from Broadway, such as, Beauty and the Beast, Chicago, and Ragtime.

Currently, Ike is serving as Adjunct Professor of Bass at his alma mater, Austin Peay State University and touring across America and around the world with singer Crystal Gayle. His longtime association with fellow native Nashvillian and legendary trad jazz trombonist Louis Brown eventually led him to joining the “out of this world” band, Titan Hot Seven.

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