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Norman Jonathan HARRIS. Trumpet. Joined the Daly-Wilson prior to the 1973 Australian Tour as split lead and high note specialist. When not touring Norm was active with television bands, recording, theatre shows and club bands as well as the Tommy Tycho Orchestra. He also taught privately and at the Sydney Conservatorium where he was responsible for training the two big bands.

Norm was also a contributing arranger to the band and his version of 2001 Space Odyssey can be heard on YouTube. His other arrangements included adaption for the band of Night On Bald Mountain, Promenade, The Gnome, The Catacombs, The Hut on Fowl's Legs with some of these performed on the world tour which included Russia. He was with the Daly-Wilson Big Band until 1976 when he then moved to Melbourne to take up the position of lead trumpet at on The Don Lane Show at GTV9.

Norm joined the Australian Army in 1961 (16) where he attended The School of Music at the Army Apprentices School, Balcombe, Victoria. He won three awards while there including the Allan's Medal for musical excellence upon graduating. He eventually went onto serve in Vietnam as a platoon medic with C Company, 5RAR in 1966-67 and discharged in 1969 and went to study music in Hawaii.

Prior to joining the Daly-Wilson band, Norm had been Graduate Assistant, Bands under Professor Richard Lum at the University of Hawaii. His undergraduate studies were done at The Church College of Hawaii (now BYU Hawaii) where he was appointed Assistant Director of Bands under Professor Richard E. Ballou. His trumpet teacher was former Disney musician Robert Flemming.

As well as The Don Lane show Norm played on numerous other TV shows including the Royal Gala Concert, The Bert Newton Show, The Ernie Sigley Show, Safeway New Faces, The Paul Hogan Show, The Ronnie Corbett Show, several others as well as recording work.

In 1980 Norm travelled to Las Vegas where he won the position as lead trumpet at the Flamingo Hotel, playing on the 14 piece band for the production show in the main room. He returned to Australia in January '82 and resumed his job at GTV9 on the Don Lane Show.

He formed The Australian Showband in 1985. This band was made up mostly of young aspiring musicians, many of whom went on to be successful professionals. The band was very successful and performed at many charity events, balls and backed numerous local artists as well as touring with many visiting overseas artists.

Norm also conducted The Australian Pops Orchestra, The Australian Theatre Orchestra, The Singapore Symphony Orchestra, several local ensembles and taught at Melbourne University. In 1988 he was appointed Professor of Trumpet at the Defense Force School of Music where he also instructed promotion courses regarding big band rehearsal techniques.

He retired in 2002 after performing with The China Philharmonic and The Radio Orchestra for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th Birthday Celebration and then conducting The Australian Pops Orchestra for two concerts with Ray Charles.