Big Band Musicians Joel Harrison: guitar Daniel Kelly: piano, keyboard Kermit Driscoll: electric and acoustic bass James Shipp: vibes, marimba, and hand percussion Rob Garcia: drums Laila Biali: voice JC Sanford: conductor Michel Gentile, Ned Rothenberg, Donny McCaslin, Ben Wendel, Rob Scheps, Andy Laster: woodwinds Seneca Black, Taylor Haskins, Dave Smith: trumpet Justin Mullens: french horn Alan Ferber, Jacob Garchik, Curtis Fowlkes: …
The debut album from Multiplicity – a multi-cultural, genre-defying collaboration between Joel Harrison and North Indian classical sarodist and composer Anupam Shobhakar. The album beams with an amalgamation of styles influenced from the worlds of Indian Classical, jazz, blues and roots music. Musicians Joel Harrison: Guitar Anupam Shobhakar: Sarod Gary Versace: Piano, B-3 Organ, Accordion Dan Weiss: Drums and Tabla Hans Glawischnig: Acoustic …
All original music summoning Harrison’s electric roots in the 1970’s. A wildly diverse improviser/composer/arranger with a penchant for unorthodox instrumental combinations, guitarist Joel Harrison has sustained one of the most unpredictable discographies of the last decade with his chimerical mix of jazz, blues, chamber music, African and Indian folk music, Appalachian tunes and old school …
String Choir is a unique ensemble simultaneously drawing on skills required of classical, jazz, and folk traditions. Harrison has arranged the music of legendary jazz drummer Paul Motian, whose thirty years of composing, especially for his trio with Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell, yielded a remarkable number of highly original tunes. His singular, under-appreciated sound is at once quizzical, playful, …
Solos and duos for cello and violin featuring Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain. Harrison’s first CD of all non-improvised music. PREVIEW TRACKS Duo for Cello and Violin Mvmt. 1
Joel Harrison Septet: Influences from classical music weave into the jazz writing. A Chamber Music America funded CD with an abundance of composition. Extended forms, gorgeous solos, and covers of Messiaen and Gregg Allman. Commissioned by Chamber Music America. Musicians Joel Harrison: guitar Donny McCaslin: saxophone Gary Versace: keyboard Christian Howes: violin Dana Leong: cello …
Unlike a lot of his CDs, the focus here is on Harrison’s guitar playing – a mixture of jazz, rock, Americana, and Soul with tunes by Luther Vandross, Buddy Miller, George Russell, a traditional spiritual, Paul Motian, Leonard Cohen, and a couple of originals – a nod to formative years in Washington D.C. History and …
A quintet (Joel Harrison 5) recording featuring the intriguing front line of trumpeter Cuong Vu and bassoonist Paul Hanson, with bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer eminence Brian Blade. Harrison has created a genuine improvisers’ record with a conceptual focus on the intuitive skills of these specific players. https://youtube.com/watch?v=EtdRY3ZkLJI PREVIEW TRACKS An Elephant in Igor’s Yard Old Friends Left …
