The whole kit and caboodle
Published Sunday, August 14, 2011 by Jeffery Morse | E-mail this post
At Newport Jazz Festival: Sunday at 1 p.m. (James Farm, with Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman), 2:20 p.m. (Avishai Cohen’s Triveni), and 4 p.m. (Charles Lloyd’s Sangam, with Zakir Hussain). The Newport Jazz Festival runs tonight through Sunday at Fort Adams State Park. 800-745-3000. www.newportjazzfestival.net. Harland also performs at Regattabar on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $25. 617-395-7757. www.regattabarjazz.com
Any decent investigation of the jazz scene is likely to yield these near-conclusive findings: First, Eric Harland is everywhere. Second, Eric Harland can do anything.
Evidence? Just look at his schedule for the next few days. At the Newport Jazz Festival this weekend, Harland, a 34-year-old drummer with an absurdly lavish body of work, appears in three groups with utterly different sensibilities.
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