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Free Form (Joe Harriott album)

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Released
  
1961

Free Form (1960)
  
Abstract (1962)

Release date
  
1961

Label
  
Compulsion

Length
  
46:10

Artist
  
Joe Harriott

Producer
  
Denis Preston

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
November 1960 London, England

Joe Harriott albums
  
Southern Horizons, Movement, Abstract, High Spirits

Free Form is the second album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott recorded in England in 1960 and released on the Jazzland label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Comparable to Ornette Coleman's recordings of the period, these eight pieces incorporate Harriott's hard bop influence, cutting through adventurous compositions.

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Harriott

  1. "Formation" - 6:13
  2. "Coda" - 8:00
  3. "Abstract" - 3:39
  4. "Impression" - 5:32
  5. "Parallel" - 5:42
  6. "Straight Lines" - 5:57
  7. "Calypso" - 4:44
  8. "Tempo" - 6:23

Personnel

  • Joe Harriott - alto saxophone
  • Shake Keane - trumpet
  • Pat Smythe - piano
  • Coleridge Goode - bass
  • Phil Seamen - drums

    • Songs

    1Formation6:08
    2Coda7:56
    3Abstract3:34

    References

    Free Form (Joe Harriott album) Wikipedia
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