circa summer 08 as a leader:
canada day (nate wooley, matt bauder, chris dingman, eivind opsvik), guewel (taylor ho bynum, mark taylor, nate wooley, josh sinton)
others' bands:
aaron siegel where from here, the pavones, nate wooley quartet, adam rudolph organic orchestra, shelley kay, jason mears' stelpurnst
collaborative:
saris (duo with sara schoenbeck),
achim kaufmann/mark dresser/harris eisenstadt,
jeb bishop/jason roebke/harris eisenstadt,
plus adhoc groups
and
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parents
brother
grandparents
extended family
friends
sara
nature
africa
new york
los angeles
toronto
amsterdam
chicago
vancouver
bay area
new mexico
halifax
wadada leo smith
adam rudolph
barry altschul
gerry hemingway
alex cline
vinny golia
joe porcaro
joe labarbera
foday musa suso
jalamang camara
mamady danfa
friends in gambia
malick ngom
friends in senegal
john mizner
ira sadoff
pat brancaccio
alfred ladzekpo
kobla ladzekpo
beatrice lawluvi
john bergamo
elvin jones
tony williams
jack dejohnette
roy haynes
paul motian
joe chambers
john bonham
mitch mitchell
jon fishman
neil peart
tony oxley
tom rainey
joey baron
michael sarin
jim black
john hollenbeck
kenny wollesen
henry threadgill
anthony braxton
sam rivers
yusef lateef
don cherry
thelonious monk
miles davis
john coltrane
ornette coleman
wayne shorter
eric dolphy
andrew hill
charles ives
gyorgy ligeti
edgar varese
toru takemitsu
reading books
watching films
colby... nice...
playing and watching hockey
playing baseball
snowboarding
cooking
travel
staying active
Drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt (b. Toronto 1975) lives in Brooklyn.
Collaborations with Bobby Bradford, Les Claypool, Yusef Lateef, Butch Morris, Sam Rivers, and Wadada Leo Smith, among many others.
Performed throughout the US and Canada, Australia, in Japan and West Africa.
Released six albums as a leader and appeared on 35 other recordings.
Most recent recording The All Seeing Eye + Octets (Poobah) nominated for Best Tribute Album of 2007 in All About Jazz NY and on Village Voice/Wire/Signal to Noise/All About Jazz Top Ten of 2007 lists, and featured in Village Voice article by Francis Davis.
Most of the mp3s above are from a fall07 Canada Day gig, with Nate Wooley, Matt Bauder, Chris Dingman, and Eivind Opsvik. Look for a studio release from this group (label tba) and Guewel (Clean Feed) in September 2008. Plus one track from Evan Eisenstadt's short film Prism, which I scored.
this works are actually recorded in the nice tourist town Dresden where Jan lived for 4 years and on several places in germany/thuringia and denmark/sjaeland +++ Jan recorded all with an old 4-track, one old minidisc-recorder, two old guitars and some old pedals and a brand new notebook+++Enrico Wuttke aka Flim helped him out with some Fieldrecordings and beautiful Piano Pieces+++ new tracks are growing every day on his minidisc-walkman he records woods, highways/autobahnen, shopping centers, farms, children rooms, camping sites, rehearsel rooms and roofgardens ...etc and himself and his friends and familys+++ since spring 2007 he lives on a farm in thuringia, germany+++to be continued +++
hi Harris, thanks for the connection! As you can see we are trying to do something a bit different. Thanks for your support. If you or your friends are ever in the UK you will be very welcome at Xposed Club! XC
