Harris Eisenstadt Quintet

Harris Eisenstadt Quintet: Jalolu

by Derek Taylor
May 7, 2004

African referents in jazz are nothing new. Second Line Congolese rhythms crop up in the earliest New Orleans street music and syncopation lies at the root of pioneering ragtime. Drummers from Dodds to Blakey to Drake have been incorporating these patterns and practices for the better part of a century. As with any other facet of the jazz idiom the challenge comes in discovering new applications for the already found. Harris Eisenstadt, by my admittedly fuzzy reckoning a Los Angeles ...