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Harris Eisenstadt: The All Seeing Eye + Octets
by Kurt Gottschalk
It's a bold few decisions Harris Eisenstadt makes The All-Seeing Eye + Octets. He starts it off by covering the whole of Wayne Shorter's The All Seeing Eye (Blue Note, 1965), but arranges it for new instrumentation and then pairs that with two suites of his own. It's the sort of thing you'd better know you can pull off if you're going to try. Fortunately, Eisenstadt does. He reworks Shorter's septet considerably. The original Blue Note session ...
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by Troy Collins
Recently relocating from Los Angeles to New York City, percussionist Harris Eisenstadt is becoming a ubiquitous presence in the bi-coastal creative improvised music scene. Wadada Leo Smith, Sam Rivers, Bobby Bradford, Jeb Bishop, Rob Brown, Vinny Golia and a cast of notables have all utilized his skills in the past. The All Seeing Eye + Octets is his sixth album as a leader and the culmination of his West Coast-based artistic achievement.
A brazen re-interpretation of Wayne Shorter's ...
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