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Joel Harrison (guitar, dobro, banjo, National Steel Guitar, voice), David Binney (alto saxophone), Jon Cowherd (piano, Hammond organ), Uri Caine (piano, Fender Rhodes), Chris Tordini, Stephan Crump (bass), Brian Blade, Allison Miller (drums)

The concept is simple: classic country and Appalachian music contextualised in jazz voicings and instrumentation... the songs and the unity of the musicians, the unity of these disparate musics,... — Jazzwise, December 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Sep 2018
Catalogue No: HCD7319X
Label: HighNote
Length: 63 minutes

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trad.: America the Beautiful

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Joel Harrison, Uri Caine, David Binney

Bill Monroe: Jerusalem Ridge

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Joel Harrison, David Binney

June Carter, Merle Kilgore: Ring of Fire

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Joel Harrison, David Binney

Harrison, J: 900 Miles

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Joel Harrison, David Binney

trad.: We Shall Rise

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Joel Harrison, David Binney

Bradbury: Angel Band

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Joel Harrison, Nels Cline, David Binney, Theo Bleckmann

Ola Belle Reed: My Epitaph

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Joel Harrison

Bob Wills: Osage Stomp

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Joel Harrison, Uri Caine, David Binney

Webb, Jimmy: Wichita Lineman

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Joel Harrison, Uri Caine, David Binney

Vince Gill: Go Rest High on That Mountain

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Joel Harrison

trad.: Lost Indian

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Joel Harrison, Uri Caine, David Binney

Fred Rose: Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain

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Joel Harrison, David Binney

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‘Angel Band’ is the third in guitarist Joel Harrison’s acclaimed Free Country series of projects and, like its predecessors, features a unique mix of jazz interpretations of unlikely material drawn from various forms of Americana.

Saxophonist David Binney obviously shares Harrison’s musical vision as does pianist Uri Caine whose pianism here ranges from pointillistic to pugilistic. But for all the considerable talents of the side artists this is Harrison’s show. As today’s emaciated, blog-fed music scene staggers around looking for the newest trend (no matter how shallow) Harrison continues to cross and combine genres in order to communicate with his listener, challenge pre-conceived notions of “how it should go,” and bring out new qualities in familiar music.

The music of Joel Harrison stubbornly defies categorizing. You can try using all the post-this, proto-that gibberish you can think of but it is impossible. From the new-age of Paul Winter to the no-wave of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks; from the complex poly-everything of Charles Ives to the deceptively simple deconstruction of American folk ballads, Joel Harrison is perhaps the most imaginative, inventive and inclusive artist in contemporary jazz music.

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December 2018

The concept is simple: classic country and Appalachian music contextualised in jazz voicings and instrumentation... the songs and the unity of the musicians, the unity of these disparate musics, [keep] us angelically entranced.

March 2019

Angel Band: Free Country, Vol. 3 easily shows that Harrison grasps not just the basis of the music he mines, but the nuances, too, resulting in a collection of great diversity and remarkable cohesion.

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