Joel Harrison
| Joel Harrison | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | guitarist, composer, arranger |
| Instruments | electric guitar |
| Labels | 9 Winds, Koch Jazz, ACT, HighNote, Innova, Sunnyside, Cuneiform, Whirlwind |
| Website | www |
Joel Harrison is an American jazz guitarist, singer, composer and musical arranger. He was born in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Bard College, New York, in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in composition and performance. His father was Gilbert Harrison, the editor and owner of the magazine The New Republic, and his mother was Anne Harrison (née Blaine). The couple had four children: James, David, Joel and Eleanor.
Harrison has identified the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, the Allman Brothers Band and Washington guitarist Danny Gatton among his early musical influences. Having begun his career as a musician in Boston during the early 1980s, Harrison moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco, where he led several musical ensembles and became a sought-after session musician. Since 1999, he has been based in New York City. His mentors and teachers have included Joan Tower, Ali Akbar Khan, W.A. Mathieu and Charlie Banacos.
In 2010 he was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow. That same year, he founded the Alternative Guitar Summit (AGS), an annual festival based in New York that aims to present and explore the guitar's full potential in all musical genres. The AGS advisory board is headed by Pat Metheny, while the 2017 Summit includes initiatives hosted by guitarists such as Harrison, Marc Ribot, Larry Campbell, Chris Eldridge, Steve Cardenas, Cindy Cashdollar and Miles Okazaki.
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