 One of the earliest jazz trumpeters to double on flugelhorn, his playing became less frequent due to illness.He began his career with Roy Brown and Ivory Joe Hunter, before moving to Detroit in 1957 to play with Yusef Lateef's quintet.He was originally the bandleader of sessions recorded with Coltrane, but after Coltrane's rise to fame in the 1960s these albums were re-issued with his name given equal or greater prominence than Harden's.