Biography
Donald Harrison Jr. is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Born on 23 June 1960 in New Orleans, Louisiana, he studied at the Berklee College of Music after beginning his career in New Orleans second-line and Mardi Gras Indian traditions.
He has performed with musicians including Roy Haynes, Jack McDuff and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Harrison served as composer, alongside Zafer Tawil, for the 2008 film Rachel Getting Married, in which he also appeared as the Rehearsal Dinner Guest. He is Big Chief of the Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group and was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2022.
