Max Harris

b. 15 September 1918, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, d. 13 March 2004, London, England. A pianist, composer and prolific conductor-arranger for radio and television programmes. As a boy, Harris had private tuition on the piano up to the Royal Academy of Music Advanced Grade, and gave piano lessons himself, while still a teenager. He served as pianist-arranger with the Jack Parnell orchestra, played gigs with top sidemen such as Tommy Whittle and George Chisholm, and made his first broadcast in 1950 on the BBC's Jazz Club. During the 50s he arranged for BBC Radio's Show Band Sho...