JOEL HARRISON
Eclectic Fusion / Blues / Post-Fusion Contemporary / World Fusion / Third Stream / Progressive Big Band / Pop/Art Song/Folk / Fusion • United States
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Joel Harrison’s musical journey has few parallels in modern music. Guitarist, composer, arranger, vocalist, songwriter, bandleader – Harrison deftly juggles all of these roles, melding influences from jazz, classical, country, rock, and world music. His expansive sound fits equally well in jazz clubs and concert halls – and the occasional dive bar across town.
For brevity’s sake it would be safest to call Harrison’s home base jazz, a descriptor that mutates to fit a staggering array of styles and approaches. He finds inspiration from music too often barred from admission into the jazz consciousness, taking his place in a tradition of exploration and interpretation that reaches through the open-eared reinventions of Miles Davis and Charles Ives to the American rhapsodies of Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, or Hank Williams.
“Ultimately you’re just trying to arrive at great music,” he says. “Sometimes the best methodology is to leave people to their own devices, and
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Eclectic Fusion
1996
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Harbor
Eclectic Fusion
2007
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Holy Abyss
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2012
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Guitar Talk
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2021
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