Greg Harris
Multi-Instrumentalist Greg Tanner Harris leads the “Greg Harris Vibe Quintet,” and is a member of Bluegrass legend Pete Wernick’s Flexigrass, hip-hop/jazz/soul group Future Jazz Project, New World Citizen Band, 9th & Lincoln Orchestra, and SuperCollider. Among his work as a studio musician, he has released 7 albums including- Greg Harris Vibe Quintet “Glass Gold,” “Open Space,” “Frames Live,” “Glass Gold”, Prospector “Memory of Pilots” featuring trumpeter Ron Miles, and “World Citizen” with West African master xylophonist Aaron Bebe Sukura. His newest projects including “Cloudhouse” and “This Western Front” can be found on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. Greg has a great interest in the West African Xylophone called the Gyil (pronounced JEE-lee), the national instrument of the Lobi and Dagara people of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. He has performed with Baaba Maal, Aaron Bebe Sukura, SK Kakraba, as the musical director for Prudence Mabhena from Zimbabwe, and has also done fundraising performances for the Whole Planet Foundation. He also plays an assortment of Frame Drums from around the world, exploring the Bodhran of Ireland and the Doyra of Uzbekistan. He received an D.M.A. in Jazz Studies and an M.M. in Music Performance, Percussion at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Music Education and Music Performance Bachelor of Arts degree from Fort Lewis College. Greg teaches percussion, Ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and improvisation as a private instructor, high school teacher, and college instructor. Greg is a freelance musician in the Denver/Boulder area and has performed nationally and internationally. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver School of the Arts, Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts, and as a piano instructor at Red Rocks Community College..