Awards
 

Regional Arts Commission
2018 Artist Fellowship Winner

Peabody Logos
Leadership in Education

Best Jazz/R&B Soul Artist
River Front Times

Men of Style Winner
ALIVE Magazine

Creatively Customizing Musical Experiences
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Lamar Harris is a trombonist with a unique style and sound. His influences flow from jazz, hip-hop, world music to classical themes and is incorporated into his music. He has recorded several projects with his latest being “The World of Man” for Alvin Ailey Dance Company’s STILL choreographed by Kirven Douthit-Boyd. Lamar also plays flugelhorn, tuba, keys, deejays and has been a featured artist at Jazz St. Louis, NHL All-Star Saturday Night 2019, The St. Louis Blues, the Whitaker Festival, Taste of St. Louis, Riverfront Times Best of Awards, events for Centene, the St. Louis Symphony, St. Louis Zoo and has performed with Sheila E., Terence Blanchard, BeBe Winans, Fred Wesley, Sy Smith, Eric Roberson, ZO!, Marc de Clive Low, Rich Medina and many others. Lamar has been the musical director for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ The Ant & The Grasshopper and Polkadots 2019-2020, Shakespeare in The Street’s Blow Winds, Metro Theatre Company’s, Wonderland, Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure and musical consultant for New Jewish Theatre’s District Merchant. Lamar is currently working on new project with his 18 piece big band Lamar Harris’ Georgia Mae due out in 2020.
Lamar's creative range from music to fashion earned him a featured spot in ALIVE Magazine as a Men of Style Winner in 2013 . His intensely creative sound soothes the ears with melodic, abstract sounds that leave audiences craving for more. The music forces the listener’s mind and soul inside the sounds, releasing their energy into a place of solitude and relaxation. In 2018, Lamar was awarded the Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship and was one of twenty-one award winners in Missouri of the Peabody Logos Leadership in Education Award in 2010. For eight years, he was the Director of Bands for Crossroads College Preparatory School where he designed and instituted a $65,000.00 music production lab, organized fundraisers and community events. He currently is the creative director of FROM THE LAB, which was created in partnership with Opera Theatre St. Louis and six times Grammy Award winner trumpeter Terence Blanchard.

As the RFT’s 2013 and 2010 Best Jazz Artist and Best Funk/R&B/Soul award winner, he has performed on the Jamie Foxx "Foxhole Radio Show" and Old School 95.5, performed for John Legend, Bill Bellamy, Sommore & Miguel, Porsche, Mercedes Benz, IKEA, Brooks Brothers, The United Way, Circus Flora, St. Louis Ballet, St. Louis Arc, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Nieman Marcus, ISES National Convention, PROMO- STL, National Association of College Organizations, The Taste of St. Louis, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, St. Louis Fashion Week and has been featured at Jazz St. Louis. In July 2014, St. Louis Magazine named him as the Best Multi-talented DJ in St. Louis. Lamar was a cast member for the musical, “Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story” at the Muny Theater in St Louis, Missouri. He has partnered with various organizations such as Pepsi, Junior Chamber International, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, College Bound and countless others.

PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE

Actors Equity Association and Missouri Musicians Union
 Member

Music Director
The Repertory Theatre-STL/Metro Theatre Co/Shakespeare in the Street/UMSL Theater Dept.

Jazz St. Louis
Jazz Academy Instructor

St. Louis Magazine
Freelance Music Entertainment Writer

Creative Director FROM THE LAB, SOUNDWAVE COMIC XPO