Category: Press
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Jun, 2008
Reviews of The Wheel
Guitarist Joel Harrison has been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) forging a path of adventure in modern music. Not necessarily content with arbitrary categories, he is discovering ways to utilize all the different musical streams of the world. He has used jazz improvisation as a starting point but it’s never the be-all-end-all, the kind [...]
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May, 2008
Jazz Guitarist, Joel Harrison Debuts His String Quartet Piece in Mahattan Concert
On June 19, Intuition Records and Innova Records present a unique concert to debut the CD release of Joel Harrison’s, The Wheel. The concert will take place at the Cornelia St Café on June 19, 2008 with two shows, at 8:30pm and 10pm. The music is a union of jazz and classical string quartet with [...]
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Apr, 2007
All About Jazz Reviews ‘Harbor’
By John Kelman Since his 2003 breakout Free Country (ACT), Joel Harrison has focused largely on liberal and highly unliteral takes of traditional songs, popular country tunes and, on Harrison on Harrison (HighNote, 2005), the music of the late George Harrison. Harbor represents a couple of significant departures from Harrison’s recent recorded work. First, it’s [...]
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Apr, 2007
Introduction to Harbor from Bill Milkowski
A restlessly creative spirit, Joel Harrison has thrown himself headlong into half a dozen challenging and wildly disparate projects since moving to New York from the Bay Area in 1999. “I have far-ranging interests and I have a voracious musical appetite,” explains the prolific guitarist-composer-arranger. “And I work fairly quickly once I get going on [...]
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May, 2005
All About Jazz Reviews ‘Harrison on Harrison’
By John Kelman “For Harrison on Harrison the guitarist/vocalist pays tribute to the late Beatle George Harrison, proving that nothing is immutable, and that even songs from the collective subconscious are completely malleable and capable of inspiring all manner of reshaping. Harrison opens his new disc with a version of Here Comes the Sun that [...]