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Harris Eisenstadt
12+ albums
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Drummer/percussionist/composer Harris Eisenstadt has performed in a variety of settings, including jazz, creative improvised, and African music ensembles. Born in 1975 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he followed in the footsteps of his drummer father, but was athletically inclined, playing baseball and hockey. Though his parents administered a public relations agency, Eisenstadt gravitated toward music, playing the drum kit in the basement of the Upper Canada College at age ten, where he also graduated some years later. His early influences were Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, and jazz drummers Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Tony Oxley, and John Stevens. As an advanced student, he took lessons with Toronto composer David Mott, moved to New York City where he was tutored by Barry Altschul, worked with the Knitting Factory, earned his B.A. cum laude in literature and music from Maine's Colby College in 1988, and received his Masters in Fine Arts via African-American improvisational music on scholarship from the California Institute of the Arts in 2001. While in Los Angeles, he worked with KOLA — the Kreative Orchestra of Los Angeles, collaborated with Adam Rudolph, and teamed with Rudolph and Sam Rivers for the CD Vista. He has worked with a startling array of top-notch musicians, including Yusef Lateef, Vinny Golia, Elton Dean, James Newton, Tony Malaby, Bennie Maupin, Wayne Horvitz, Nels Cline, Marty Ehrlich, Urban Bushwomen, and many more. Eisenstadt lived in Gambia for a few months,
