Craig Harris

Craig S. Harris (born September 10, 1953)[1] is an American jazz trombonist, who started working with Sun Ra in 1976.

[1] He also has worked with Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Charlie Haden.

The Tailgater's Tales was a quintet with clarinetist Don Byron, trumpeter Eddie Allen, Anthony Cox on double bass, and Pheeroan akLaff on drums.

[1] He is a graduate of the music program of State University of New York at Old Westbury,[1] and was influenced by its founder and director Makanda Ken McIntyre.

[2] He first played alongside another of his teachers at SUNY, baritone saxophonist Pat Patrick, in Sun Ra's Arkestra for two years.