FIRST NYC CONCERTS OF 2010 Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day

photo by Peter Gannuskhin

FIRST NYC CONCERTS OF 2010

Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26-27 2010

Ibeam Studios
168 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215

930 PM, $10

Subway Directions:
Take the F or R trains to 4th Ave & 9th Street. Walk down 4th ave to 7th street. Make a left on 7th
and walk past 3rd ave. ground floor, the grey doors to the right of the stairs of #168.
http://ibeambrooklyn.com

featuring:
Nate Wooley –Trumpet
Chris Hoffman –Cello
Chris Dingman – Vibraphone
Eivind Opsvik – Bass
Harris Eisenstadt – Drum Set, Compositions

For its first concerts of 2010, Harris Eisenstadt and Canada Day settle into Ibeam for two nights to premier new compositions. Canada Day’s 2009 debut on Clean Feed appeared on several best of 2009 lists, including the Village Voice, All About Jazz New York, Jazzhouse, WFMU, Ni Kantu, CKUT, and Dusted.


Web Pages:
http://www.harriseisenstadt.com/
www.harriseisenstadt.wordpress.com/canadaday

Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/jaliba

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Harris-Eisenstadt/52300389542?ref=share

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/harriseisenstadt



REVIEWS OF CANADA DAY’S DEBUT RECORDING (CLEAN FEED, 2009):

“...a batch of smartly interrogatory new pieces.”
- Nate Chinen, New York Times

“ Canada Day is a welcome addition to the burgeoning discography
of one of the new generation’s leading composers.”
- Troy Collins, All About Jazz


“...four stars... superb.”
- Peter Margasak, Downbeat

Live at TONY: Harris Eisenstadt’s stripped-down avant-jazz

Live performance on Time Out New York's Blog The Volume with Nate Wooley. We played a rousing 10am version of "Kategeeper," one of the tracks on the new record.

Hosting WKCR Musicians Show Tonight October 21 2009 6-9pm

Hosting Columbia University's WKCR Musicians Show tonight to promote Canada Day. Tune in from 6pm-9pm est at 89.9 if you're in NYC or online.

Canada Day on BBC Jazz on 3 until next Monday October 26

Excited to report that the song "Kategeeper" from my new record Canada Day aired on BBC Jazz on 3 with Jez Nelson. You can listen to the podcast here until next Monday October 26.

Long interview just posted at All About Jazz

Clifford Allen did a nice long interview with me recently and just posted it .

October Gigs in New York and Canada Day East Coast Tour

october 5 new york, ny, 7pm trio with jonathan goldberger and trevor dunn local 269

october 6 new york, ny, 10am mini canada day with nate wooley Time Out New York The Volume

october 6 new york, ny, 9pm trio with kyoko kitamura and yayoi ikawa local 269

october 9 new york, ny, 9pm quartet with dave ballou, ben gerstein, james ilgenfritz ibeam

october 10 new york, ny, 9pm steve morley/ursel slicht quintet with brian drye, adam lane ibeam

october 12 new york, ny, 8:30pm adam rudolph's organic orchestra roulette

october 19 new york, ny, 8:30pm adam rudolph's organic orchestra roulette

october 21 new york, ny, 6-9pm wkcr musicians show

october 22 new york, ny, 7pm saris brooklyn conservatory

harris eisenstadt and canada day cd release tour (nate wooley, matt bauder, chris dingman, eivind opsvik

october 24-25 new york, ny cornelia street cafe

october 27 toronto, on, 12:30pm york university

october 27 toronto, on, 10pm, double bill with nick fraser quartet tranzac

october 28 buffalo, ny hallwalls

october 29 rochester, ny the bop shop

Sugar - a sweet little movie

Sweet little movie. Meta reviews here.

September is always a month for extended re-visiting of Coltrane's work, it being his birthday and all. Been enjoying Lewis Porter's thoroughly researched and chock-full-of-musical-analysis tome John Coltrane, His Life and Music. Recommended reading for any month.

Happy Birthday John Coltrane

Tyson - incredible and spooky

Saw James Toback's Tyson last night. Strong, deserving reviews at Meta. That guy was a mofo in the 80s/early 90s. Was it really that long ago? So incredible, everything he achieved as a teenager and very-early 20s marauder. Kind of like Tony Wiliams but I guess Tony wasn't such a loose cannon.

Thomas Perry - more Pelecanos than Price

Burned through Thomas Perry's expertly-assembled thriller Silence recently and meant to post about it. NY Times review here. Perry writes concisely, moving through scenes briskly - not without attention to detail - but on the Hemingway side of things rather than Proust....or, to put it another way, more Pelecanos than Price.

RIP JOE MANERI

Drew Gress' Irrational Numbers = great music

True Blood Season 1... top of the second tier

Good stuff, this show. Not 1st tier HBO, but sad to say those shows - The Wire, Deadwood, The Sopranos - just don't seem to be getting made anymore. Not enough sex, maybe? True Blood, on the other hand... vampies + southern gothic + sex = greenlit second season, third, and beyond no doubt...

RIP Rashied Ali

Harvie Krumpet... wow!

Well, Wallace and Gromit it ain't, but dare I say Harvie Krumpit is equally original. Dark but uplifting, peculiar and unlike anything else.

link to facebook fan page

Harris Eisenstadt on Facebook

Richard Price, why'd ya let it happen?

Another in a series of fantastic books

that turned into a (I don't even have the nerve to see it to confirm that it's a) terrible movie.

Phillip Pullman... why'd ya let em do it?

Yet another example of a wonderful book

turned into a

horrible movie.

Thick as Thieves... pretty hilarious

Thick as Thieves, some classic midseventies British humor. Bob Hoskins plays a petty criminal who comes back from three years "in the nick" to find his wife Annie shacked up with his former conman partner and best mate Stan (Inspector Morse John Thaw). A sadly-only 8-episode threesome ensues. Worth searching out...