Joshua C. Harris - Artist Bio

You have probably heard him play. You may have seen him on TV in the last two
episodes of Sex in the City or in a TV commercial for Diet Coke featuring Elton John.
Josh Harris has played saxophone and flute on stages with a range of artists like
Whitney Houston, Branford & Wynton Marsalis at Symphony Space NYC, the Temptations, and
comedian Don Rickles at the Canyon Club in Los Angeles. Riding the bus to NYC with his belly
dancing mom, Josh’s introduction to music started at age 4, watching the dancers and the
musicians playing for them.
As a jazz & funk fusion tenor player and singer, some of his sideman credits include
world tours as sax and flute soloist in Whitney Houston’s band, the American Idol Show at CBS
studios Los Angeles, Freddie Jackson, La Bamba from the Conan O’Brien Show, Trombonist
and founder of the Crusaders Wayne Henderson, Tony award winning vocalist Jennifer Holiday,
Mary Wilson from the Supremes and hit maker Martha Reeves with “Dancing in the Streets”.
He has backed up Los Angeles based jazz vocalist Barbara Morrison, and toured with Matt
“guitar” Murphy from the Blues Brothers.
Josh’s experiences as a multi-woodwinds player in theaters and festivals include on
Broadway and Off – Broadway show’s in NYC, the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, the Kool Jazz
Festival in NYC, the Stockholm Water Festival in Sweden and the Oslo, Norway Film Festival,
and the Los Angeles 15th annual South Central Jazz Festival.
Some of his discography as a recording artist include the American Idol Band at Capitol
Records Studios, as a featured soloist on Bohemian Production’s Bob Marley Remix, the Cover
Girls for Sony Epic records, the Guiding Light Soap Opera at Clinton Studios NYC, the Geraldo
Rivera Show, the History Channel and Coca Cola at A&R studios NYC.
As a front man and multi-faceted saxophonist Josh released his first solo album in 2007
entitled “Cool Water Slow”. The album, selling in over 40 countries, has received 4 and 5 star
independent reviews and is still selling today.
Josh is now currently living in Valencia, Spain. For contact please email Josh at
Joshuasounds@gmail.com