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Harrison on Harrison: Jazz Explorations of George Harrison

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Here Comes the Sun; Within You Without You; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; The Art of Dying; My Father's House; All Things Must Pass; Taxman; My Sweet Lord; Love to You; Beware of Darkness; Isn't It a Pity.

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Joel Harrison: Harrison on Harrison: Jazz Explorations of George Harrison

Read "Harrison on Harrison: Jazz Explorations of George Harrison" reviewed by Jeff Stockton


You have every right to be suspicious of anything that claims to interpret the music of a Beatle. Like symphonic Stones, extra-genre covers of the Beatles are most often a mixture of reverence and awkwardness. I've choked down enough Breakfasts with the Beatles to last a lifetime. But on Harrison on Harrison, guitarist Joel Harrison (no ...

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Joel Harrison: Harrison on Harrison: Jazz Explorations of George Harrison

Read "Harrison on Harrison: Jazz Explorations of George Harrison" reviewed by John Kelman


In response to the question “Why continue to retread the Great American Songbook?," some offer the excuse that contemporary pop music doesn't hold the musical interest that pop songs from the Great American Songbook did in their day. But original reimaginings of music by contemporary songsmiths like Beck, Bjork, and Radiohead by Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, ...

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Free Country

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: I Walk the Line; Lonesome Road Blues; Wayfaring Stranger; This Land is Your Land; Twelve Gates to the City; Tennessee Waltz; Hell Broke Loose in Georgia; Folsom Prison Blues; Tender Years; Will the Circle Be Unbroken; Sing Me Back Home; Lone Pilgrim.

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Joel Harrison: Free Country

Read "Free Country" reviewed by Julian Derry


Joel Harrison's Free Country kicks off with a cover version of the late Johnny Cash's “I Walk The Line" in the country style of guest vocalist Norah Jones, but halfway through the first track comes a hint of better, freer things to come, and no doubt the motivation behind the album's title. The album ...

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Joel Harrison: Free Country

Read "Free Country" reviewed by Jim Santella


Through his free interpretation of American folk songs and country classics, guitarist Joel Harrison explores the growth patterns that exist under today's expanding jazz umbrella. As a contemporary blues band, Harrison's ensemble slides and moans characteristically to uphold the tradition of this deep-seated music. As a backbeat-driven rock band, the guitarist's arrangements ...

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PKD Vortex Project

Label: Edge Tone Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Vortex PKD; Ape of God; Third Eye; Nobody likes the anti-septic lady; March of the 80 foot Phils; Return of the Wild Martian Fur; Quest for Reality part 1; Quest for Reality part 2.

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Harrison on Harrison

Label: High Note
Released: 0


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