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Ace vibraphonist Stefon Harris doesn’t shy away from the big questions. On 2003’s “Grand Unification Theory,” he sought to encapsulate the entirety of human history in a 13-piece suite arranged for big band. With his latest release...
Harris and his unconventional ensemble (a nonet including viola and cello) begin the album auspiciously with pieces from Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s 1970 “New Orleans Suite.” Here, Harris’ playing is at its bright-edged, percussive best, and his relentlessly...
Unfortunately, Harris’s band can’t keep up this pace for long: by the time that they reach the final piece of the first suite, “Bourbon Street Jingling Jollies,” the band already seems to have lost steam, even as Harris...
An exception to the forgettable latter portion of the Ellington suites comes with a pared-down trio version of “The Single Petal of a Rose.” On this, one of Ellington’s most beautiful compositions, Harris delicately draws out the richness of his...
Home has been a moveable feast. Still, Gurr retains a strong sense of "honoring the domestic." "It's not just to do with the man I live with," he says of his home life. "Part of it is an antidote to the wildness of the imagination." Gurr says he was...