Wendell Harrison

Wendell Harrison is an American clarinettist and tenor saxophonist, born in Detroit in 1942. His career is tied to his home city, and he is best known for founding Tribe with trombonist Phil Ranelin in the early 1970s, a Detroit collective that ran its own record label and magazine and gave voice to Black political consciousness. He has also worked as a jazz educator. Harrison studied with pianist Barry Harris and moved to New York, where he worked with Grant Green and Sun Ra. He then spent several years touring and recording with Hank Crawford.