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During this time, The Three Sounds recorded regularly for Blue Note and Verve.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was mostly retired to Boise, Idaho, starting in the late 1970s, although he performed regularly at the Idanha Hotel there. Then, Ray Brown convinced him to go back on tour in the early 1980s. He played with the Ray Brown Trio and then led his own groups, recording mostly on Concord Records, until his death from kidney failure in 2000.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarris' \"Ode to Billie Joe\" is known as a jazz classic. 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