Zacc Harris is a fixture in the Twin Cities jazz scene. More than just a celebrated guitar player, Harris is the head of Shifting Paradigm Records, a Minnesota-based record label that releases gems from all around the globe. For Harris’s latest release, Chasing Shadows, he left his students and his family in Minneapolis for a couple days and got out to a cabin in Wisconsin. That retreat brought Harris a focus and a patience that can be hard to find inside the city and that focus and patience brought in a whole new slew of songs that Harris has been recording both as a leader and with the Atlantis Quartet. Inspired by his son’s preference for the term “this day” over “today”, Harris churned out a patient ballad titled “This Day” that channels a calmness hard to come by in modern jazz. I as particularly impressed with how Brandon Wozniak’s sax solo complements Harris solo and deftly expand the moods of the tune. Harris takes the stage of Volstead’s Emporium this evening.
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