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Mike Fortune
Selected recordings:
Microtonacity "Microtonacity" (Tonacity Records) 2002
Microtonacity "Negative Miles" (Microtonacity Records) 2004
Daniel Carter "Live at the Medicine Show" (Fly on the Wall Records) 2004
Sonny Simmons "Zebulon 1" (NO LABELS/Cadence Dist.) 2005
Luther Thomas "The Rap" (NO LABELS/Cadence Dist.) 2005
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Joel Harrison: The Wheel
by Troy Collins
A wildly diverse improviser/composer/arranger with a penchant for unorthodox instrumental combinations, guitarist Joel Harrison has sustained one of the most unpredictable discographies of the last decade with his chimerical mix of jazz, blues, chamber music, African and Indian folk music, Appalachian tunes and old school country songs.
Nothing in his expansive output approaches the episodic grandeur of The Wheel however. A five part suite written for a combined string quartet and jazz quintet, Harrison's long-form work succeeds where ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson