Wendell Harrison has been played on NTS over 60 times, featured on 63 episodes and was first played on 22 March 2015.

Wendell Harrison (born 1942) is an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist born in Detroit, Michigan.

Harrison began playing clarinet at age seven, and switched to tenor sax in high school. He studied under Barry Harris before moving to New York City in 1960. There he played with Jack McDuff, Elvin Jones, Sonny Stitt, Grant Green, Hank Crawford, and Sun Ra in the 1960s. In 1970 he moved back to Detroit and became a session musician, remaining a mainstay of the local scene for…