Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. releases CONGO SUARE SUITE
“NEA Jazz Master BIG CHIEF DONALD HARRISON’S recording CONGO SQUARE SUITE, “Movements l, ll and lll is a musical and cultural perspective place into a classical orchestral, tribal and jazz paradigm. These elements include over forty years of working with hundreds of master innovators from every jazz era, many other African diasporic musical styles, and European classical music. Congo Square Suite is a unique idea of epic musical proportions. It marks the only recording that displays an artist’s experience as an Afro New Orleans Big Chief and master musician composing, orchestrating and performing his own production. Its concept as a series of musical multiverses containing the same elements was the natural evolution for the artist. Harrison furthered the idea when the correlation between music and quantum theory. With Congo Square Suite, Harrison shows that his talent, experience and quantum realizations are the keys to understanding his intrinsic portals.”
