Joel Harrison Jazz

Wednesday, July 19 at 5:00: The Joel Harrison Trio

The Art of Improvisation:  Jazz, Latin jazz, the Great American Songbook, and original compositions by the Joel Harrison Trio-- Joel Harrison (guitar) Chico Huff (bass) Taurus Biskus (drums).

Guitarist, composer, arranger, lyricist, and writer Joel Harrison has “created a new blueprint for jazz” (New Orleans Times-Picayune). A Guggenheim Fellow (2010) whose compositions have been commissioned by many prominent programs, he has released 24 CDs as a leader on seven different labels.  The Brooklyn-based guitarist's music may be founded on jazz but veers into classical, rock, country, and all manner of American roots music. Succinctly described by the New York Times as “protean… brilliant,” he is also an active film composer, having worked on the Oscar-nominated Traffic Stop and the Sundance awardee Southern Comfort. Harrison is the founder and director of the Alternative Guitar Summit, a yearly festival devoted to new and unusual guitar music. Pat Metheny has called the Summit “one of the most interesting and distinguished forums for guitar on the planet.  Harrison is the author of “Guitar Talk: conversations with visionary players” as well as “Modern Jazz Standards for Guitar.”

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Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. 508-645-3360