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The Joe Harriott ~ Indo-Jazz Suite reel-to-reel tape, was for sale on eBay. I have others for sale on eBay now (see links below).
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Joseph Arthurlin "Joe" Harriott was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone. He was a pioneer of free-form jazz. Harriott was part of the wave of Caribbean jazz musicians who arrived in Britain during the 1950s, including Dizzy Reece, Harold McNair, Harry Beckett and Wilton Gaynair.
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Harriott was born on July 15, 1928, in Kingston, Jamaica, where he received his schooling. Harriott was influenced by Charlie Parker. He developed a style that fused Parker with his own Jamaican musical sensibility - most notably the mento and calypso music he grew up with. He turned to what he termed "abstract" or "free-form"
music. He had been experimenting with some loose free-form ideas since
the mid-1950s, but finally settled upon his conception in 1959.
Harriott's free-form music has been compared to that of Ornette Coleman. Harriott's method demanded more complete group improvisation than displayed in
Coleman's music, and often featured no particular soloist. Instead of
the steady pulse of Ornette's drummer and bass player, Harriott's model
demanded constant dialogue between musicians, which created an
ever-shifting soundscape. Tempo, key and meter always free to alter in
this music, and often did so. The presence of pianist Pat Smythe also gave the band a completely different texture to
Coleman's, which by then had dispensed with the need for a pianist.
His line-up consisted of Shake Keane (trumpet, flugelhorn), Pat Smythe (piano), Coleridge Goode (bass) and Bobby Orr (drums). The legendary Frank Holder
also toured with Harriott and contributed to recording projects over
this period. He recorded three albums during this period. The quintet
effectively broke up when Shake Keane moved to Germany in
1965. From this point onwards, Harriott worked freelance.
Joe Harriott Quintet ~ Indo-Jazz Suite
Review
"Written and directed by John Mayer in 1966, the Indo-Jazz Suite offered the closest ever collaboration and fusion of East and West music. Based on the five-note raga -- or tonic scale that Indian classical music emanates from -- and Western modalism."
"The
band Harriott assembled for this album included pianist Pat Smythe,
bassist Coleridge Goode, and drummer Allan Ganley -- as well as
trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, flutist Chris Taylor, Diwan Mothar on sitar,
Chandrahas Paiganka on tamboura, Keshan Sathe on tabla, with Mayer
playing violin and Harriott alto sax. Of the four pieces, the "Overture"
and "Contrasts" are rooted in blues and swing, though they move from
one set of ascending and descending notes to the other, always ending on
the tonic, and involve more than the five, six, or seven notes of
Indian classical music, while the latter two -- "Raga Megha" and "Raga
Gaud-Saranga" -- are out to lunch in the Western musical sensibility and
throw all notions of Western harmony out the window."
- Thom Jurek review on AllMusic (link below)
Joe Harriott died of cancer on January 2, 1973, and is buried in Bitterne churchyard, in Southampton. On his gravestone, his own oft-quoted words provide his epitaph: "Parker? There's them over here can play a few aces too."
Joe Harriott Quintet ~ Indo-Jazz Suite
Joe Harriott Quintet ~ Indo-Jazz Suite
Joe Harriott Quintet ~ Indo-Jazz Suite
Joe Harriott Quintet ~ Indo-Jazz Suite
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A1 Overture 8:03
A2 Contrasts 9:28
Side 2:
B1 Raga Megha 8:30
B2 Raga Gaud-Saranga 9:10
Companies, etc.:
Manufactured By – Rhino Records (2)
Distributed By – Scorpio Music, Inc.
Credits:
Alto Saxophone – Joe Harriott
Bass – Coleridge Goode
Drums – Alan Ganley*
Flute – Chris Taylor (5)
Piano – Pat Smythe
Sitar – Diwan Motihar
Tabla – Keshav Sathe
Tambura – Chandrahas Paigankar
Trumpet – Kenny Wheeler
Violin, Harpsichord – John Mayer (2)
Supervised By – Denis Preston
Written-By – John Mayer (2)
Engineer – Adrian Kerridge
Liner Notes – Charles Fox (3)
Design [Album Design] – Marvin Israel
Photography By – Michael Joseph (4)
Atlantic – ALC 1465
Format: reel-to-reel
Country: US
Side 1:
A1 Overture 8:03
A2 Contrasts 9:28
Side 2:
B1 Raga Megha 8:30
B2 Raga Gaud-Saranga 9:10
Companies, etc.:
Manufactured By – Rhino Records (2)
Distributed By – Scorpio Music, Inc.
Credits:
Alto Saxophone – Joe Harriott
Bass – Coleridge Goode
Drums – Alan Ganley*
Flute – Chris Taylor (5)
Piano – Pat Smythe
Sitar – Diwan Motihar
Tabla – Keshav Sathe
Tambura – Chandrahas Paigankar
Trumpet – Kenny Wheeler
Violin, Harpsichord – John Mayer (2)
Supervised By – Denis Preston
Written-By – John Mayer (2)
Engineer – Adrian Kerridge
Liner Notes – Charles Fox (3)
Design [Album Design] – Marvin Israel
Photography By – Michael Joseph (4)
Atlantic – ALC 1465
Format: reel-to-reel
Country: US
The Joe Harriott Quintet ~ Indo-Jazz Suite, reel-to-reel tape, was for sale on eBay
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