Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | yesterday
... — the young New Orleans native does have a jazz pedigree. He’s the nephew of jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison and he also grew up in a city that has a long tradition in jazz. And even though he’s still relatively young, this album and his previous releases - along with exciting performances such as that at Newport - have helped establish him as one of today’s rising jazz stars. In...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... really does love music. For this film, he hired Zafer Tawil, a virtuoso Palestinian musician, and Donald Harrison, a saxophonist of great reputation in circles where saxophonists have reputations, to compose the music and also to appear in the movie, apparently as friends of the bridegroom. The groom is played by Tunde Adebimpe, the lead singer for the band TV on the Radio. The soundtrack...
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
“Rachel getting married . . . ,” Donald Harrison Jr. muses before the friends and family assembled at a fictional wedding. The setting is director Jonathan Demme’s latest critically acclaimed work, starring Anne Hathaway; Harrison’s opening line is the film’s title.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Three discs, three creative artists, one concept--Blueprints of Jazz presents some of jazz music's eminently worthy but less widely known innovators. Tenor saxophonist Billy Harper and drummers Mike Clark and Donald Bailey have been fixtures on the jazz scene from 1950s through the 1970s, and they still produce fresh sounds...
