harris eisenstadt
drums
composition
September 2010
click here for suny maritime history of western music for class website.
clean feed to record september trio (with ellery eskelin and angelica sanchez) in september for release spring 2011.
9th recording as a leader woodblock prints released july 2010 on the lithuanian label no business. vinyl available by emailing me: harris at harriseisenstadt dot com or from the label. digital download available from cdbaby.
5 out of 5 stars for woodblock prints in free jazz. recommended new release and review in all about jazz new york, reviews also at music and more, and goddeau (in dutch).
took part in the jazz composers orchestra institute in july at columbia university.
next canada day album will be recorded december 2010 for release late summer 2011 on songlines.
convergence quartet released june 2010 on the portuguese label clean feed.
podcast interview on thejazzsession.com
artist feature from february issue of allaboutjazz new york.
Canada Day turns up on best of 2009 lists including the village voice, all about jazz new york, jazzhouse, wfmu, ni kantu, ckut, dusted, and in portuguese press and time out lisbon.
8th recording as a leader, Canada Day, out on Clean Feed. reviews in the new york times, village voice, allmusic, dusted, All About Jazz, Free Jazz, All About Jazz new york, gapplegate, Toronto Life, exclaim, eye weekly, the ottawa citizen, amazon, allaboutjazz again, and a four star review in downbeat.
canada day charted in the top ten on canadian jazz/blues college radio for six weeks in the fall, including #1 the week of nov1, and returned to the charts in january .
new wordpress site has begun. bear with me on this, it'll be a minute.
long interview at all about jazz recently posted.
honored to be nominated by the jazz journalists association in the category of up and coming artist of the year for 2009.
honored to be included in the rising star, composer category of the 2009 Downbeat Critics Poll.
check out the updated visuals page.
new long bio at allmusic.com
the penguin guide to jazz ninth edition is out and has a long entry on my work. reviews here. order the hard copy here. this incredible volume contains some of the most elegant, thorough writing on jazz you'll find.