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Joel Harrison
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News:

Announcing the premiere of new work for septet

Friday, September 24, 2010 * 8pm * NOCCA’s Freda Lupin Memorial Hall

New Orleans, LA — We are debuting a new project  entitled Singularity, featuring a septet of top-notch musicians, including Christian Howes (violin), Donny McCaslin (saxophone), Dana Leong (cello), Gary Versace (piano), Stephan Crump (bass), and Clarence Penn (drums). These new compositions were commissioned by Chamber Music America’s  “New Works” program. The project premieres at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) on Friday, September 24, in Freda Lupin Memorial Hall. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at www.NOCCAInstitute.com or by calling 504 940 2900.

I just debuted a new project with sarod player Anupam Shobhakar, Dan Weiss, Gary Versace, and Stephan Crump. Anupam and I arranged and composed the music and it was a blast. I played a lot of slide on National Steel Guitar which was fun. More to come with a duo on Aug. 4 at Cornelia St. Café.

I am curating a 3 day guitar festival at Cornelia St. Aug. 2,3,4
All will peform in a duo setting -Artists include Marc Ribot, and Elliot Sharp, Brandon Ross and Michael Gregory, Vic Juris and Mary Halvorson, Liberty Ellman and Rez Abbasi, Pete McCann and Adam Rogers, myself and Anupam Shobhakar. 

I am almost finished writing music for a septet which will premiere in the Fall. Players are Donny McCaslin, Gary Versace, Dana Leong, Chris Howes, Stephan Crump, and Clarence Penn. This is for the Chamber Music America “New Works” grant.

This summer I’ll start a big band piece commissioned by Meet the Composer
The “String Choir” playing music of Paul Motian has finished its recording and it will be released in a few months. Details to follow. I have also begun a big piece for classical percussion quartet, sarod, guitar, bass, and drums.

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JOEL HARRISON: Life ForceJOEL HARRISON
Life Force

New CD!

Solos and duos for cello and violin
featuring Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain

Harrison's first CD of all non-improvised music

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Projects: 

These can be divided into rough categories 

1. Hard hitting jazz with electricity and all that comes with it
2. Chamber jazz- more quiet, involving classical music impulses
3. “World jazz”- a cumbersome phrase but it points to use of traditional African and Indian instruments
4. Classical music 

-Small jazz ensemble- ranges from 4 to 7 players

all my own writing

-String Choir- performing my arrangements of Paul Motian’s music

String quartet plus two guitars

  • Skin and Steel: sarod, guitar, piano, bass, drums
  • All original music combining Indian, jazz, country/blues
  • Fojoto Trio: Foday Musa Suso (kora), Tony Trischka (banjo), myself on acoustic and electric guitar- arrangemets of country, African, jazz pieces
  • -Big Band (upcoming!)

- Classical music compositions (meaning no improv)…ongoing

Joel Harrison was awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship