Artist
Joe Harriott
Jamaica
Joe Harriott is a musician from Jamaica. They also recorded with Joe Harriott & Amancio D’Silva Quartet and The Joe Harriott Quintet.
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Jamaican-born, British saxophone player
Born July 15, 1928 in Kingston, Jamaica, died January 2, 1973 in Southampton, England, UK (aged 44).
Educated at the, a Catholic orphanage, in Kingston, he settled in the United Kingdom in 1951. Initially a bebop player, Harriott was recovering in hospital from tuberculosis when he formulated his own version of free jazz (independently of Ornette Coleman). In the mid-1960s, after meeting the Indian violinist John Mayer, the two men devised means of fusing the music of the sub-continent with jazz, formed the double quintet Indo-Jazz Fusions and recorded several albums as co-leaders.
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Joe Harriott & Amancio D’Silva Quartet
Joe Harriott under another name — MusicBrainz marks this project eponymous.
The Joe Harriott Quintet
Joe Harriott under another name — MusicBrainz marks this project eponymous.
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