Jet harris biography

English musician (–)

Musical artist

Terence "Jet" HarrisMBE (6 July – 18 March ) was an English rock and roll musician. He was an original member of Cliff Richard's backing band the Shadows, serving as the bass guitarist from the group's inception until April , after which he had success as a soloist and as a duo with that band's drummer Tony Meehan.^[1]

Early life

Terence Harris, the only child of Bill and Winifred Harris,^[2][3] was born at Kingsbury Maternity Hospital, Honeypot Lane, Kingsbury, North West London, England.^[1] His prowess as a sprinter at Dudden Hill secondary modern school earned him the nickname Jet.^[4]

Although he learned to play clarinet as a teenager, he made his own four-string double bass to play in a jazz group and later graduated to a professionally made double bass.

In , while playing jazz with drummer Tony Crombie and his group the Rockets, Crombie got a Framus bass guitar for H