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Ahimsa Orchestra

Label: Nine Winds Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Non-Violence 1; 2; 3; Relief 1; 2; 3; 4.

Album

The Soul and Gone

Label: 482 Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Evidence of Absence Is Not Necessarily the Absence of Evidence; Three Beaths; Portrait of Holden Caulfield; Posauno y Schlagwerk > Between a Rock; Kola #2; Seed (For Henryk Gorecki); And a Hard Place.

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Harris Eisenstadt: The Soul and Gone

Read "The Soul and Gone" reviewed by AAJ Staff


By Chris DiGirolamo Jazz is a conversation between musicians, and when it comes down to it, the style has an inherent structure. Musicians should have something to say, and drummer/composer/leader Harris Eisenstadt does, without a doubt. The Soul and Gone is indubitably about compositional expression. With the dynamics of a five o'clock traffic ...

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Harris Eisenstadt: The Soul and Gone

Read "The Soul and Gone" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Harris Eisenstadt wrote all the compositions on The Soul and Gone, and he recruited a fine band of musicians who never cease to make the music amazing. All of the players have consistently created monuments of aural splendour. This time out is no exception. There is a constant shift of emphasis and shade, subtlety and emphasis, ...

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Harris Eisenstadt: Ahimsa Orchestra

Read "Ahimsa Orchestra" reviewed by Rex  Butters


Presenting two extended compositions played by two different large ensembles, Harris Eisenstadt's Ahimsa Orchestra highlights the percussionist/composer's emergence as an artistic force to be reckoned with. Eisenstadt gathers an impressive array of West Coast improvisers and feeds them charts inspired by his broad musical interests. Recorded live, the improvisations often launch from segments of music composed ...

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Harris Eisenstadt: Ahimsa Orchestra & Jalolu

Read "Harris Eisenstadt: Ahimsa Orchestra & Jalolu" reviewed by David Adler


With these two discs, we get two contrasting views of West Coast, now NYC-based drummer Harris Eisenstadt. class="f-left"> Harris Eisenstadt Ahimsa Orchestra Nine Winds 2005 Ahimsa Orchestra, on Vinny Golia's Nine Winds label, consists of two lustrous large-ensemble works written by Eisenstadt and inspired by Mahatma ...

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Jalolu

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Boogie on Lenjeno; Seruba (take 2); Mwindo; Go (for Adam Rudolph); Jumpin? In (for Eric Dolphy); Seruba (take 1); Ahimsa (Non-Violence) #2; Jumpin? In (for Eric Dolphy) (take 2). Recorded: October 27 & 28, 2003, Rossie, NY.

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Harris Eisenstadt Quintet: Jalolu

Read "Jalolu" reviewed by Rex  Butters


Harris Eisenstadt's quintet makes its recording debut in the Spirit Room for CIMP Records. The resulting Jalolu bursts with spicy interplay from a three-horn front line, joined and supported by Andy Laster on clarinet and baritone sax, his playing on the latter supplying the bass. Holding it all together, Eisenstadt travels over his drum set like ...

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Fight or Flight

Label: New Sonic
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Rise - 11:13 2. People Are Gonna Do What They're Gonna Do - 13:54 3. Trouble Here, Fly There - 17:37

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Harris Eisenstadt: Fight or Flight

Read "Fight or Flight" reviewed by Jeff Stockton


The compositions on Fight or Flight are as elemental as the brass, wood, and steel of the instruments that define the recording’s multi-textured sound. "Rise" begins frenetically: flutes dueling like blue jays chasing each other through the trees, trombone insinuating itself with truncated growls, mallets plunking a marimba, chimes ringing, and all the while ...


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