JOE HARRIOTT QUINTET - JAZZ FOR MODERNS - 2009 EP - GEARBOX GB1503 - RARE UK

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JOE HARRIOTT QUINTET

BBC JAZZ FOR MODERNS

1962 MAIDA VALE SESSION

GEARBOX RECORDS GB1503

V. LTD., U.K. JAZZ E.P.! UNPLAYED!

A rare opportunity to bid for a copy of the very limited, first commercial release of this recording! Only 500 were pressed and this

information is inscribed in the vinyl in the play-out groove!

'The BBC brings you the best in Modern Jazz.

Welcome to Jazz For Moderns and this previously unpublished set.

The Joe Harriott Quintet was one of the most forward looking in Britain, but no jazz man works in isolation from the past and the great

tradition of jazz is never absent from the work of the Joe Harriott Quintet.

Sheherds Serenade, composed for the Joe Harriott group by Dizzy Reece, one of Britain's many distinguished gifts to the jazz scene in

New York. But jazz enthusiasts not only like to know what they're hearing, they like to know who, or at any rate, whom. Joe Harriott's alto

saxophone leads the group partnered by the flugelhorn and the occasional trumpet of Shake Keane. Incidentally, both they and bassist

Coleridge Goode are West Indians who found the jazz world congenial here in London and the climate, well, bearable.

On piano is Pat Smythe and on drums, Bobby Orr. It's Bobby who lays down the basic beat behind Jope Harriott's composition Pictures.

Then there is another Dizzy Reece composition, this time dedicated to the then living legend Thelonious Monk. There is a hint of the old

standard Blue Lou in the chord changes, but the solo's are free and forthright as the Harriott Group plays Variations On Monk. A monkish

theme by Dizzy Reece, with a solo from Joe, which made the happy grin spread all over the face of session producer Terry Henebery.

The final number is in a jazz style which Joe himself devised and called 'free-form'. This begins with a theme statement in the usual jazz

sense, but the improvised solos that follow are free in every sense. Not improvisations on the theme, but share flights of fancy. This puts

quite a strain on the rhythm section. After all they are accompanying music which is as unexpected to them as it is unplanned by the soloist.

However, the flow of ideas is two way. Any member of the Quintet can contribute a sudden idea if he wants to for musical discussion. Anyway,

let's see what happens as Joe and the boys play Tonal.

Thanks Joe that was fascinating.'

As told by Steve Race on original broadcast.' (Notes from the rear of the sleeve.)

All arrangements by Joe Harriott. Recorded at St Hilda's Studios, Maida Vale, London, 1962. Original session produced by Terry Henebery

for the BBC.

Produced for release by Darrel Sheinman, Gearbox Records. Valve re-mastering Jeremy Cooper, Soundtrap. Cover photograph by David Redfern/

Redferns/Getty Images. Sleeve design by Alan Foulkes.

Sleeve: Nice thick card with a photograph of the Quintet on the front. The sleeve is intact with no tears, splits, repairs, stickers or writing!

Inner Sleeve: Plain white paper, slightly shaped, poly-lined and die-cut. It is intact and unmarked.

Vinyl: Clean, bright and shiny with no major visual faults. As new and UNPLAYED! 

Labels: Both labels are intact with no damage and, of course, no dreaded spindle marks!

Matrix Codes: Side 1 - GB 1503 A-1 Limited Edition First 500 JC SOUNDTRAP.

Side 2 - GB 1503 B-1.

Side 1: 1. Shepherds Serenade (Reece), 2. Pictures (Harriott)

Side 2: 1. Variations On Monk (Reece), 2. Tonal (Harriott)

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