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Joe Harriott

Jamaica

Joe Harriott is credited on 234 releases across 60 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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234

Pressings credited

60

Albums

8

Decades active

18

In collections

Biography

Joseph Arthurlin Harriott (15 July 1928 – 2 January 1973) was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone. According to George McKay in Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, Harriott was 'responsible for a series of brilliant experiments in new music in Britain through the 1960s'. His work was 'crucial' in two areas of innovation: free music and then global music fusion. Initially a bebopper, he became a pioneer of free-form jazz. Born in Kingston, Harriott moved to the United Kingdom as a working musician in 1951 and lived in the country for the rest of his life. He was part of a 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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Credited work

234 releases · 60 albums · active 1955–2023

  • Performance · 407
  • Other credits · 19

Studios: Lansdowne Studios · Fairfield Hall · Fillmore East · Trident Studios

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