Joel Harrison presents: Alternative Guitar Summit 2026 & Don’t Forget Your Guitar Album Release Shows
About This Event
Guitarist Joel Harrison brings his Alternative Guitar Summit 2026 to Nublu, sharing the bill with the Don’t Forget Your Guitar album release shows. Both projects treat the guitar as a flexible ensemble instrument, favoring clarity, close listening and measured improvisation; the album set approaches the stage like a working studio, testing material in real time.
About Alternative Guitar Summit 2026
At Nublu, guitarist and composer Joel Harrison brings his Alternative Guitar Summit 2026 into a downtown room with a long history of boundary-testing jazz. The program foregrounds the guitar as an ensemble voice, moving between written structures and open improvisation with featured performers including Harrison and the Don’t Forget Your Guitar album-release set. In New York, where guitar-led jazz is often treated as a side current, this series argues for it as a central language. The earned point is simple: the night treats timbre and restraint as compositional tools, not decoration.
About the Artists
Joel Harrison presents: Alternative Guitar Summit 2026
Joel Harrison presents: Alternative Guitar Summit 2026 is a New York City–based jazz project led by guitarist Joel Harrison, built around the guitar as a flexible band instrument rather than a featured solo voice.
Don’t Forget Your Guitar Album Release Shows
Don’t Forget Your Guitar Album Release Shows is a jazz project presented in New York City, appearing at Nublu, the East Village club known for boundary-leaning nights. The set shares a bill with Joel Harrison’s Alternative Guitar Summit 2026, linking the performances to a wider guitar-centered scene.
Joel Harrison
Joel Harrison is a jazz guitarist who also writes, sings, and arranges, moving between ensemble roles and bandleading with the same steady focus. In New York City he is a familiar presence at Nublu, where his sets often unfold like studies in sound and structure rather than displays of speed.