harris eisenstadt
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Drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt (b. Toronto, 1975) lives in Brooklyn.
"his drumming shows erudition and drive... making restlessness feel like a secret discipline."
- New York times
"He's perpetually building new ensembles to suit the variety of music he hears in his head—that's what composers do."
- village voice
"ellingtonian in scope."
- all music guide
"Eisenstadt... perfectly balances new-music ensemble composition with an impressive level of improvisational integrity."
- penguin guide to jazz recordings (9th edition)
Current groups as a leader:
canada day (clean feed 09)
Matt Bauder - tenor sax
Nate Wooley - trumpet
Chris Dingman - vibraphone
Eivind Opsvik - bass
Guewel (clean feed 08)
Taylor Ho Bynum- cornet
Nate Wooley - trumpet
mark taylor- french horn
Josh Sinton - bari sax
recent sideman groups:
myra melford quartet, Adam Rudolph’s Organic Orchestra, jason mears quartet, ned rothenberg's aggregate, sean moran group , nate wooley quartet, the pavones, aaron siegel's where from here
recent collaborative groups:
duo with sara schoenbeck, trio with Achim Kaufmann/Mark Dresser (nuscope),
trio with Jeb Bishop/Jason Roebke (nottwo) + tba in 09, convergence quartet (taylor ho bynum, alexander hawkins, dominic lash, fmr, uk tour spring09)
performances/recordings:
dave ballou, connie bauer, harry beckett, steve beresford, steven bernstein, big black, rob brown, Bobby Bradford, charles burnham, john butcher, roy campbell, Les Claypool, vincent chancey, nels cline, lol coxhill, wilbert de joode, elton dean, tobias delius, robert dick, trevor dunn, john edwards, marty ehrlich, simon fell, cor fuhler, vinny golia, jerome harris, graham haynes, mark helias, tristan honsiger, ron horton, wayne horvitz, francois houle, guus janssen, peter kowald, frank lacy, Yusef Lateef, tony malaby, myra melford, phil minton, matt moran, Butch
Morris, joe morris, mary oliver, jeff parker, jd parran, Sam Rivers, herb robertson, marcus rojas, ned rothenberg, ROVA, adam rudolph, Paul Rutherford, angelica sanchez, paul smoker, chris speed, Wadada Leo Smith, steve swell, phil wachsmann, matthias ziegler, and many
others.
studies:
drumset: barry altschul, gerry hemingway, joe labarbera, joe porcaro
african music: alfred, kobla, beatrice ladzekpo, jalamang camara, mamady danfa, malick faye, sing sing rhythms (nyc)
composition: wadada leo smith
harmony: paul caputo
PERFORMED IN/ON THE SCORE TO NEW LINE CINEMAS' THE WEDDING CRASHERS (2005) AND OTHER FILMS.
SCORED evan eisenstadt's INDEPENDENT SHORT FILM PRISM (2008).
RECEIVED GRANTS/COMMISSIONS FROM AMERICAN Composers Forum (2004, 2005), durfee foundation (2003), meet the composer (2007), socan (2006), a.o.
Performed throughout the US and Canada, in Australia, Europe, Japan and West
Africa.
7 albums as a leader, played on around 30 other recordings.
most recent recording as a leader, guewel, #1 on Time Out new york/jazz journalist association critic hank shteamer's top 10 of 2008 list. Included in jazz journalist association president howard mandel's best of 2008 list.
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