{"id":2025555,"date":"2025-09-16T07:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2025555"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:04:16","slug":"cornbread-harris-jimmy-jam-send-palmers-bar-off-on-right-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cornbread-harris-jimmy-jam-send-palmers-bar-off-on-right-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornbread Harris, Jimmy Jam send Palmer&#8217;s Bar off on right note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">James &#8220;Cornbread&#8221; Harris has played regular gigs at Palmer&#8217;s Bar on Sunday evenings for the last few years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before the watering hole closed for good on Sunday, the veteran jazz and R &amp; B piano man&#8217;s son, Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame producer Jimmy Jam, joined him on the drums for the end of his show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span><strong>MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9)<\/strong> &#8211; <\/span>The legendary father and son helped <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/business\/small-business\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the West Bank institution;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the West Bank institution<\/a> say goodbye in style.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Piano is everything<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What we know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When Cornbread Harris plays the piano, he says it feels like god is polishing the notes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But now he&#8217;ll have to find a new place to tickle the ivories for what was billed as the &#8220;Church Of Cornbread&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It was a night of reverie, of course, but it was also a night of sadness, that closing thing,&#8221; said Harris.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">&#8216;The experience was amazing&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The backstory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For the last few years, the well-known pianist has played a regular gig at Palmer&#8217;s bar on Sunday evenings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before the bar closed for good on Sunday night, Harris&#8217; son, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame producer Jimmy Jam, watched his father perform, before joining him on the drums at the end of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;My first professional gig was playing with him as his drummer. And so to be able to do that recently at Palmer&#8217;s and be his drummer again is pretty amazing,&#8221; said Jam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jam says the two were estranged for 50 years, until local music journalist Andrea Swensson started writing the book &#8220;Deeper Blues&#8221; about Harris&#8217; life, and the father and son mended fences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In fact, when Jam, who dropped out of high school to pursue music, received a diploma at Washburn High School&#8217;s 100th anniversary last month, his dad had a front row seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It was a wonderful moment. One that I didn&#8217;t think would ever happen So, it was great,&#8221; said Jam.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">&#8216;His blessing is everybody&#8217;s blessing&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With the audio version of Deeper Blues now out, Harris is getting his due for laying the groundwork for the &#8220;Minneapolis Sound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And at 98-years-old, there&#8217;s no shortage of divine inspiration in the &#8220;Church Of Cornbread&#8221; to sing the blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Now I can see more about how blessed I am because I&#8217;m getting to be important to the world,&#8221; said Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Even though Palmer&#8217;s is now closed, Harris says he&#8217;ll continue his Sunday gigs at another historic bar, Schooner&#8217;s Tavern beginning next Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief James &#8220;Cornbread&#8221; Harris has played regular gigs at Palmer&#8217;s Bar on Sunday evenings for the last few years. 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