Donald Harrison - alto sax
Christian Scott - trumpet
Mulgrew Miller - piano
Eric Reed - piano
Ron Carter - bass
Billy Cobham - drums
and others
01 Playa Haters
02 Oleo
03 Keep The Faith
04 One Of A Kind
05 Double Trouble
06 Free Style
07 Get Your Swerve
08 So What
09 Well You Needn't
10 Free To Be
11 The Survivor
12 The Hook Up
13 Nouveau Swing
14 Mr. PC
15 Drum Line
16 I'm The Big Chief Of Congo Square
17 One Of A Kind (Bonus Track)
Recorded 2001 - 2008 in New York City and New Orleans.
Donald Harrison is being called one of the most important musicians of the new millennium by CBS Sunday Morning. The boundary leaping New Orleans alto saxophonist’s distinctive broad toned sound is immediately recognizable as his own, regardless of the environment in which it is being heard, be it bebop, hardbop, swing, New Orleans R & B or funk. Harrison has managed to forge his variegated influences and extensive experience into a uniquely personal style.
Through talent and perseverance, Harrison has developed into one of the most significant artist to emerge in the last twenty years! The question with Harrison is not what he can do, but is there anything he can’t do? So far he has mastered and influenced everything he has touched.
The son of late great Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr. began working with Roy Haynes at age 19 and Jack McDuff at age 20. He joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at age 21. A few years later, he co-led a band with Terence Blanchard that had an enormous impact on the development of the "neo-conservative" movement.
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