Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
Joe's Quintet recorded these 3 separate dates over the period of a year for the Columbia label in the UK. The 4 titles from the 1959 session were issued originally on an ep called 'Blue Harriott' and the titles Caravan and Liggin' on an ep called 'A Guy Called Joe'. Both these eps have been posted previously on BritJazz.
The remaining 3 titles from 21 April 1960 were never issued in the UK but the US label Jazzland put the 2 eps and the 3 unissued tracks together to form this lp, 'Southern Horizons'.
This was probably an attempt to 'sell' Joe in the USA where he was not very well known but he is not well recorded here on some of the tracks and his sound is distant and with some echo. Whether the problem was in the original Columbia recordings or in the transfers made by Jazzland is not known.
Coleridge Goode plays in that infuriating style of singing/humming along with his bass solos which does absolutely nothing for me (and you too Slam Stewart and any others out there). You really have to decide whether you want to be a bassman or a vocalist but not both please.
But enjoy Joe and the others in spite of the indifferent sound in places.
FLAC from lp with cover scans.
Hank Shaw - trumpet (01-03 05)
Shake Keane - trumpet, flugelhorn (04 06-09)
Joe Harriott - alto
Harry South - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Bobby Orr - drums
Frank Holder - bongoes (04 06-09)
01 Still Goofin' (Harriott) (2:44)
02 Count Twelve (Harriott) (3:39)
03 Senor Blues (Silver) (3:59)
04 Southern Horizons (South) (6:34)
05 Jumpin' With Joe (South) (3:34)
06 Liggin' (South) (5:43)
07 Caravan (Tizol) (5:36)
08 You Go To My Head (Gillespie, Coots) (6:33)
09 Tuesday Morning Swing (Harriott) (3:03)
Label: Jazzland JLP 37
Recorded: May 05 1959 (01-03 05) and April 08 21 1960 (04 06-09)
Lineage: LP>FLAC
Thank you Bluebird and Rodney. The reason for the poor sound quality is that the engineers at Jazzland apparently used the right-hand channel of the stereo master tape for this mono issue in error. Unfortunately Joe was recorded on the left-hand channel on some tracks so he is barely audible. I have a stereo copy of this album which I will pass to Rodney at a later date.
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