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Joel Harrison: The Wheel
by Troy Collins
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 country songs. Nothing in his expansive output approaches the ...
Joel Harrison: The Wheel
by Donald Elfman
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 of ...
Joel Harrison: The Wheel
by John Kelman
Following three albums focusing more heavily on his skills as an interpreter and performer, guitarist Joel Harrison reminded those aware of him prior to Free Country (ACT, 2003) that his compositional acumen remained sharp with Harbor (HighNote, 2007). The Wheel heads for more ambitious territory--a 38-minute, five-movement suite for jazz quintet and string quartet that doesn't ...
Harbor
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: You Bring the Rain; Blue Ghosts of Bourbon Street; End Time; The Refugee; Hudson Shining; Harbor; American Babylon; Les Fréres un ut majeur (Brothers in C Major).
Joel Harrison
by AAJ Italy Staff
01. Paul Motian - Garden of Eden (ECM - 2006). Sono un fan sfegatato di Paul Motian. Uno dei miei progetti è un quartetto d’archi con due chitarre che suona la sua musica. Questo è il CD della Electric Bebop Band che preferisco: emergono prepotenti il SUONO e l’interplay, non solo nei brani di Paul ma ...
Joel Harrison: Harbor
by Donald Elfman
Joel Harrison is a sound explorer and that comes through in his rich, multi-colored compositions, his deftly textured arrangements and his expressive playing. He has forged a career in which each new development builds on what came before it but offers new and different surprises. Harbor is the result of a joint commission by the French ...
You Bring the Rain
Album: Harbor
By Joel Harrison
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Duration: 9:53
Joel Harrison: 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 a ...
Joel Harrison: If You Have To Ask "Is It Jazz?"... It Is
by Jason Crane
Joel Harrison is a busy guy. From his critically acclaimed Free Country (ACT, 2003)--and its resultant commissions and recordings--to his new album of daring arrangements of the music of George Harrison, Harrison On Harrison (High Note, 2005), the 48-year-old guitarist/composer/arranger is constantly looking for news ways to express himself.Harrison sat down after a recent ...
More Music, Less Opportunity?
by AAJ Staff
By Joel Harrison We live in extraordinary times. Relatively recently a phenomenal number of types of music have taken form: blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll, country, reggae, soul/r&b, bossa nova, samba, soukous, salsa, gospel, hiphop, free improv (to name a few). Atonalism, noise, electronics, computer language are now a part of many musicians' ...
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