Leave the Door Open (album)

Leave the Door Open is an album by American jazz guitarist Joel Harrison and North Indian sarod player Anupam Shobhakar.

[1][2][3] In a review for Jazz Times, Britt Robson wrote: "Harrison exhibits uncommon curiosity and endurance in his search for different ways to make his music beautiful and visceral...

"[8] John Kelman of All About Jazz called the album "a heady brew that doesn't so much find a meeting point where East and West meet as it does blow the door open between the two, allowing the music to seamlessly ebb and flow from and towards both sides, creating something that's the sum total of both but equally reverent to their individual touchstones.

"[4] AAJ's Chris M. Slawecki stated: "Leave the Door Open is more than evocative and expertly played music: It heralds the emerging age of global world jazz and the attendant possibilities with which it comes.

"[5] Writing for The Irish Times, Cormac Larkin noted that the album "sounds like an exploration of the deepest roots of all guitar-like instruments," and commented: "Harrison isn't too fond of categories.