Joel Harrison

Joel Harrison is a guitarist, composer, arranger, and vocalist whose music bridges jazz, classical, American roots, and traditions from West Africa and India. Based in Brooklyn, New York, he has released more than two dozen albums as a leader and is a Guggenheim Fellow. He founded and directs the Alternative Guitar Summit, an annual New York festival devoted to new and unusual guitar music. His In a Silent Way Reimagined project reinterprets Miles Davis's landmark 1969 electric album with rotating ensembles of improvisers and marks the trumpeter's centennial year.