HARRIS EISENSTADT
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Nu Jazz, 21st Century Modern, Third Stream, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • Canada

“Harris Eisenstadt, a drummer and composer originally from Toronto, takes a fixer’s approach to music making, looking for ways to fit the pieces together.  In his own music especially, he often seems intent on extracting consonance from dissonance or forging ungainliness into grace.” (Nate Chinen, The New York Times). Critics have called him “one of the new generation’s leading composers” (Troy Collins, AllAboutJazz.com), “strong proof that jazz is still young and growing,” (Greg Burk, L.A. Weekly), “vital and increasingly influential” (Glenn Astarita, jazzreview.com) and “one of the most creative and skilled musician/composers incorporating traditional material to create new and vital improvised music” (Robert Iannapollo, AllAboutJazz-New York).  The Village Voice’s Jim Macnie adds, “He’s perpetually building new ensembles to suit the variety of music he hears in his head—that’s what composers do.” One of only a handful of drummers equally well known for his work as a composer, Eisenstadt is among the read more...