Joe Harriott

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Unreleased work from alto genius Joe Harriott – two different slices of material from a very under-recorded point in his career!

The first five tracks feature Joe in that back to basics mode he was hitting at the time – working in a unique group that features Kenny Wheeler on trumpet and flugelhorn, Pat Smythe on piano, Ron Mathewson on bass, and Bill Eyden on drums – all players who are very open to modern ideas, but who also keep things on more of a groove here – with only a bit of the freedom that Harriott was bringing to his music a few years before!

And yet there's still a great tension that makes the set great – swinging jazz mixed with modernism – on titles that include the Horace Silver tunes "Down & Out" and "Psychedelic Sally", plus "WSIMC", "Chronology", and "Shadows".

The remaining two tracks on the set feature Joe in a very different setting – the large group of Harry South – the kind of mod jazz in 60s London, working here with a superb lineup that also features Kenny Wheeler and Ian Hamer on trumpets, Ray Warleigh on alto and flute, and Tubby Hayes and Alan Skidmore on tenor saxes!

PERSONNEL:

• ON TRACKS [1-5]
• Joe Harriott (alto sax)
• Kenny Wheeler (trumpet,flugelhorn)
• Pat Smythe (piano)
• Ron Mathewson (bass)
• Bill Eyden (drums)

• ON TRACKS ON [6 - 7]:
• Joe Harriott (alto sax)
• Harry South (conductor)
• Greg Bowen, Derek Watkins, Ian Hamer, Hank Shaw, Kenny Wheeler, Les Condon (trumpet)
• Chris Smith, Bobby Lamb, Gib Wallace, Danny Elwood (trombone)
• Ray Warleigh (alto sax, flute)
• Tubby Hayes, Alan Skidmore (tenor sax)
• Louis Stewart (guitar)
• Phil Bates (bass)
• Spike Wells (drums)

• Recorded live in London.[1 - 5]: The Joe Harriott Quintet - Recorded 4th September 1968.[6 - 7]: The Harry South Big Band featuring Joe Harriott - Recorded 23rd July 1969.

TRACKS:

• 01. Psychedelic Sally
• 02. Down & Out
• 03. W.S.I.M.C
• 04. Shadows
• 05. Chronology
• 06. Themeology
• 07. My Man's Gone Now