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alto saxophonist Donald Harrison– the critically-acclaimed, innovative musician with four decades of experience as an instrumentalist, sideman and leader who has worked with everyone from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and salsa legend Eddie Palmieri, to the legendary rapper Notorious B.I.G. – unleashed a flurry of new projects, along with some prominent news features.

On May 8, Harrison was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music from his Alma Mater, Berklee College of Music, as part of the virtual Class of 2021 commencement. As President Roger Brown stated, Harrison was awarded his doctorate for “his creativity, innovation and lasting impact on jazz.” Accepting his award, Harrison spoke of how heartwarming it was to “receive an Honorary Doctorate and have the opportunity to communicate my experiences with our students, their parents, guardians, and advocates of music.”

Harrison is featured in the new global video production of the New Orleans R&B standard, “Iko Iko,” produced by the Playing for Change Foundation, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to building music and art schools for children around the world, and creating hope and inspiration for the future of our planet. The video features musicians performing from Ghana, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Panama, Costa Rica, Italy, Japan, Los Angeles and New Orleans, featuring Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann (both of The Grateful Dead), Ivan Neville, the late Dr. John and Harrison, chanting and playing the saxophone in his stunning Congo Nation, Afro-New Orleans-inspired attire. Check out the video at https://playingforchange.Com/.

“I’m an Afro-New Orleans cultural participant,” Harrison says. “I know the secrets that go all the way back to Africa, and how they were used in jazz, and I’m probably the only jazz musician who knows that.” Harrison formed Congo Nation, an Afro-New Orleans cultural group in 1999, and learned those chants from his father, Donald Sr.

Harrison is also set to release his first single of the year, entitled “Upper Stratus,” his take on John Coltrane’s complex, supersonically syncopated 1959 composition, “Countdown,” from Harrison’s latest two-disc CD, The Eclectic Jazz Revolution of Unity. “What I noticed about John Coltrane is that he played basically eight notes on “Giant Steps”and “Countdown,” … Harrison says, “so I figured out how to add all these other tiny spaces where you’re doubling up, playing across the time and putting forms inside of forms, and to my surprise, the musicians are saying that I actually moved Trane forward to another perspective.”

Harrison’s latest CD, also features “Stepper’s Paradise,” a grooving, track composed for the Chicago-based, urban dance genre, called Steppin,’ which features his daughter Victoria Harrison on vocals. The compilation also includes “Congo Square,” a three-part symphonic opus Harrison composed and recorded with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in 2015. “The first movement is a chant with drums and percussion,” Harrison says. “The second movement features the orchestra utilizing those real life chants from Congo Square, and the third movement features the jazz band with the symphonic orchestra.”

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