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Eric Harland

Eric Du'sean Harland, composer and drummer, is a 29 year old native of Houston, Texas who currently resides on the east coast. Education He began his professional career in 1993 playing locally as he finished high school at The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Eric won first chair in 1992-93 with the Regional and All State Jazz Band.
He received a special Citation for Outstanding Musicianship in 1994 from the International Association of Jazz Educators. During a workshop in high school, Wynton Marsalis discovered him and encouraged him to study in New York City. Therefore, after graduation, Eric went on to Manhattan School of Music with a full scholarship in their music program.
After music school Eric went on to study Theology at Houston Baptist University (College of Biblical Studies) to become an ordained Minister
Tone Poem

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Peace; Ramble; Anthem; Dismal Swamp; Tone Poem; Monk's Mood; Ay Amor (Live); Lady Gabor;
Peace.
Nothing Remains Unchanged

Label: First Word Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Complicated Us; Adelaide; 1 East West; Forest Dance; Processional; Woods; Perspectives; This I Give to You; Highway
Morning.
Todas las Voces

Label: Blue Fern Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Canción con Todos;
Desterado;
Hills of Silver;
Gracias ala Vida;
Letters and Picture Frames;
Bird on a String;
Out of Words;
Sólo le Pido a Dios;
Let me Believe;
Peace;
BONUS TRACK: Exiled.
Liberty

Label: Contagious Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ran; Faith leap; Kwooked Stweet; The Lost and Found; At Least 37th Cousins; Loosy Goosy; Tarifa; Rhyming
History; Planting Flowers; The Sound Goddess; Wil's Way.
Acceptance

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Dori;
Acceptance;
Leimert Park;
Do You Know My Name?;
It Never Entered My Mind;
Quiet Girl;
Twilight is Upon Us;
Oceana.
Billy Childs: L.A. Contentment

Billy Childs says taking formal piano lessons as a young child didn't register" at the time. He didn't recoil from the instrument by any means, but it wasn't yet exciting. But he had a neighbor who also played. Childs looked up to him. It was that neighbor who showed him stuff--taught him to play Cantaloupe ...
Summer 2020

Jazz Journal is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent releases of note, spotlighting titles that might otherwise go unnoticed or that deserve special attention. Claus Waidtløw The Game Self Produced 2020 A saxophonist who, over the last 3 decades, has recorded and toured with a ...