Harvie S has performed with masters in jazz music and masters in Latin music including Stan Getz, Pat Methany,Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Jim Hall, Stan Kenton, Gil Evans, Arturo O'Farrill, Lee Konitz, James Williams, Juan Carlos Formell, James Moody, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Houston Pearson,Art Farmer, Toots Thielemans, Bob Mintzer, Joe Lovano, Dave Leibman, Vic Juris, Danilo Perez, Paquito D'Rivera, Ray Barretto, Ray Vega, and countless others. He can be heard on several hundred CDs as a sideman, eight as a leader and another fifteen as a co-leader with such greats as James Brown, Chick Corea, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Michael Brecker, Tom Harrell, Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, Kenny Barron, Pat Martino, Dr. Billy Taylor, Grover Washington Jr., David Mathews, Virginia Mayhew and Tony Bennet.

 Over 80 Harvie S compositions have been recorded.

Ever broadening his musical scope, Harvie started studying Afro-Cuban music eight years ago and has been on the Latin-Jazz scene ever since. He combines both idioms in a bold new music with The Harvie S Band. The music is best described as Jazz on the Latin side combining the melodic and harmonic sophistication of jazz and the extraordinary rhythmic intensity of Latin music. The Harvie S Band has performed throughout the world and their newly released third CD Texas Rumba is receiving rave  reviews and a loud buzz.

In addition to his performance career, Harvie is an active educator; he has held the jazz bass instructor position at The Manhattan School of Music for both undergraduate and graduate divisions since 1984. He has been a guest lecturer at The Cologne Hochshule, McGill University, Berklee College of Music, SUNY Purchase, Patterson College, the Eisler School in Berlin, The Eastman School of Music, The New School and numerous other colleges and universities worldwide.

Harvie is a receipiant of many major grants from the Fund for U.S. Artists, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Meet the Composer.

He is a frequent featured guest on NPRs "All Things Considered" and "Fresh Air." His career is documented in Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz, the Grove Dictionary of Jazz and the All Music Guide. Harvie S has written the themes for the documentaries The Trumpet Kings, The Piano Legends and John Coltrane and can been seen and heard on the music videos of Toots Thielemans, Pat Martino, Juan Carlos Formell, Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton, Jane Ira Bloom and others.