2002
New York City Guitarist/Composer Joel Harrison
Touring the Northwest
Feb. 6-11, 2002
Playing San Francisco
Feb. 1-2, 2002
Internationally acclaimed guitarist/composer Joel Harrison will be touring the Northwest with a quartet featuring the virtuosic Jazz/ Rock/ Classical bassoonist Paul Hanson. Hanson is the only person in the world who can summon the spirits of Hendrix, Coltrane, Sun Ra, James Brown, and a Balkan bagpipes player on bassoon. He has performed with Bela Fleck, Don Cherry, Peter Apfelbaum, Boz Skaggs, etc.
Joel Harrison’s music is a category-confounding blend of musical styles, borrowing from Jazz, Blues, Classical, and World Music. In one evening he is liable to move from a difficult composition in odd meter, to a Hendrix cover, to an achingly beautiful ballad, to a Johnny Cash tune, to a free improvisation. Fascinating rhythms, rich harmony, unusual textures, and lyrical and/or spiky melodies abound. The Village Voice called him “a brilliant guitarist and unique genre- bending composer.” Filling out Harrison’s quartet are Russ Gold on drums and Damian Erskine (drummer Peter Erskine’s nephew!) on bass.
Two years ago Harrison came through the Northwest with a Jim Pepper Tribute Band that included Dewey Redman, Bob Moses, and Amina Myers. These shows mark his return to the coast. Harrison has won numerous composition awards, has had glowing reviews in Downbeat, Jazz Times, Option, Cadence, etc., and has just recorded his 4th CD entitled Free Country which features radical jazz versions of Appalachian and OLD Country tunes. His Octet CD Range of Motion was voted one of the years top ten (1998) by Dan Oullette of Downbeat. His 9 Winds CD, 3+3=7, a 3 guitar and 3 percussion soundfest, features Nels and Alex Cline.
Fri. and Sat. February 1 and 2, 2002, 9:30 pm
Joel Harrison Sextet
Pearl’s
San Francisco, CA
info: 415-291-8255
Wed., February 6, 2002, 8:30 pm
The Siskiyou Pub
31B Water St.
Ashland, OR
info: 541-488-2107 or 482-7718
$5 cover
Thurs., February 7th, 2002
Squirrel’s
100 SW 2nd St.
Corvallis, CA
Cover: $4
info: 541 753 8057
Fri., February 8, 2002, 9pm
The Blue Note
503 W. Burnside
Portland OR
info: 503-222-3334
Call club for cover
Sat., February 9th, 2002, 8pm
(featuring legendary saxophonist BERT WILSON)
The Midnight Sun
113 Columbia St.
Olympia, WA
info: 360-556-7303
or 360-357-9812
cover: $5-$10 sliding scale
Sun., February 10th, 2002, 8pm
Lucia Douglas Gallery
1415 13th St.
Bellingham, WA
for info contact Jud Sherwood at 360-650-1066
Mon., February 11th, 2002
Double bill w/ Wally Shoup, Sets at 9pm and 10:15pm
The Rainbow
722 NE 45th St.
Seattle, WA
info: 523-5155
JOEL HARRISON &
FREE COUNTRY
Cornelia St. Café
Sat. May 18, 2002, 9pm- 2 sets
Admission $10
29 Cornelia st. in the W. Village, New York, NY
Tel: 212-989-9319
The players:
JH: guitar, cassette machine
Dave Binney: sax, sampler
Rob Thomas: violin
Sean Conly: bass
Aaron Johnston: drums
JOEL HARRISON &
FREE COUNTRY
Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 9pm
Cornelia St. Cafe in the W. Village
23 Cornelia St.
The players:
JH - guitar
Dave Binney - sax
Jen Chapin - vocal
Tony Cedras - accordion
Rob Thomas - violin
Stephan Crump - bass
Dan Weiss - drums
For more info contact the club at 212-989-9319 or call 212-340-9564.
also: New York Guitar Festival’s Tribute to George Harrison at Merkin Hall also featuring Wolgang Muthspiel, Steven Bernstein, and Vernon Reid
129 W. 67th St. NY NY 10023
If you would like to receive occasional notices of events and CD releases, please send an e-mail to joel@joelharrison.com and simply say CA mailing list. We appreciate your interest!
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