The Electrifying Eddie Harris is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1967 and released on the Atlantic label.
The retrospective AllMusic review states "This is one of tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris' most famous and significant LPs... A classic date".
The album was a big commercial success, and brought Harris back onto the pop album charts for the first time since 1961. It had seen cross-over appeal as well, reaching the jazz, R&B and pop album charts. Looking at the pop charts; the album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated April 13, 1968, peaking at No. 36 during a forty-one-week run on the chart. It debuted on Cashbox magazine's Top 100 Albums chart in the issue dated April 6, 1968, peaking at No. 46 during a thirty-week run on the chart. The album debuted on the Record World 100 Top LP's chart in the issue dated April 13, 1968, and peaked at No. 42 during an eight-week run on the chart. On the Jazz charts it reached chart-topping positions; No. 1 on Record Worlds Top 20 Jazz LP's for weeks, No. 1 on Billboards Best-Selling Jazz LP's, and no charting on Cashbox as no Jazz chart was published there. The album remained on the Jazz charts into early 1969. Only Billboard published an R&B album chart. The Electrifying Eddie Harris reached No. 2 on the magazine's Hot R&B LP's chart during a forty-five-week run on it, remaining his most successful album on the R&B charts.
All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated