0531 Allan Ganley [Gone Ganley] FLAC 4(13.04)

Contributed by peer57. Thanks to bluebird and jazzandylan for help with the images.

Joe Harriott - alto
Stan Jones - piano
Sammy Stokes - bass
Allan Ganley - drums

01 I Feel A Song Coming On
02 Margona
03 Mean To Me
04 Stewpot

Label: Nixa NJE1046
Recorded: November 19 1957

0445 Michael Garrick [Black Marigolds] FLAC 9(44.01)

Thanks to the orginal uploader

AMG:
English pianist, organist and composer Michael Garrick studied Literature at London University before leading a trio and quartet in the late '50s. He mixed music and literature in the early '60s, doing more than 250 concerts that blended poetry and jazz. He formed a sextet in 1965, and also played with and did compositions for the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet and Neil Ardley's New Jazz Orchestra. He made several recordings with his group in the '60s and early '70s, heading trios, quartet, quintets and septets. Garrick experimented with harpsichord in the mid-'60s, and explored jazz settings for liturgical works. He recorded an album of choral compositions in 1968, and in the '70s began to teach as well as play and compose. He founded The Travelling Jazz Faculty in 1979, while working in a trio in the late '70s. He played with Chris Hunter in the early '80s and with Dave Green's band since 1984. Garrick formed a sextet in 1983 and a big band in 1985.

Michael Garrick - piano, organ, celeste, harpsichord
Ian Carr - trumpet, flugelhorn
Don Rendell - soprano, tenor
Joe Harriott - alto
Tony Coe - tenor, clarinet
David Green - bass
Trevor Tomkins - drums (01 03-05 07-09)
Colin Barnes - drums (02 06)
John Smith - reader (02 06)

01 Webster's Mood (Garrick) (6:54)
02 Jazz for Five (Garrick) (8:53)
03 Good Times (Garrick) (6:56)
04 Spiders (Garrick) (2:07)
05 Ursula (Garrick) (5:45)
06 A Jazz Nativity (Garrick) (3:38)
07 Black Marigolds (Garrick) (3:35)
08 What Are Little Girls? (Garrick) (2:45)
09 Carolling (Garrick) (3:25)

Label: Argo DA88
Recorded: January 03 (02 06) 10 11 (01 03 05) February 28 March 01 (04 07-09) 1966

0435 Laurie Johnson [Lock Up Your Daughters] FLAC 4(9.11)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
This is a bit of a musical oddity.
Laurie Johnson wrote the music and Lionel Bart the words for a 1959 musical, 'Lock Up Your Daughters', based on Henry Fielding's book 'Rape Upon Rape.
It ran successfully in the West End for three or four years and eventually a cast recording was made.
Johnson then decided to cover four of the songs in the show with a big band recording including jazz soloists and this is the result. The ep is elusive and expensive (there's one on ebay for £80) but the four 'jazz' tracks were found buried away in a 'Best Of Laurie Johnson' compilation cd issued in 2009.
The tracks are quite short and each is a feature for one of the jazz soloists - Johnny Scott, Bert Courtley, Shake Keane and Joe Harriott.  The other musicians in the band are not identified and the recording date is not known, but presumably in the early 1960s.
To paraphrase the lawyers, 'the discographies are silent'.
FLAC from cd with original ep cover scans.

Laurie Johnson - leader
Bert Courtley - trumpet
Shake Keane - trumpet
Joe Harriott - alto
Johnny Scott - flute
other personnel unknown

01 Lock Up Your Daughters (Johnson, Bart) (2:00)
02 Lovely Lover (Johnson, Bart) (2:52)
03 'Tis Plain To See (Johnson, Bart) (:2)03
04 There's A Plot Afoot (Johnson, Bart) (2:15)

Label: Pye NEP 24156
Recorded: Late April 1960 London
Lineage: Compilation CD>FLAC

0392 Joe Harriott [Southern Horizons] FLAC 9(41.25)

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

0373 Joe Harriott [Personal Portrait] FLAC 8(34.16)

(01 03 05)
Kenny Baker - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ray Premru - bass trumpet, trombone
Mo Miller - french horn
Joe Harriott  - alto
Bob Efford - flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
Stan Tracey - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Bobby Orr - drums
Monty Babson - bongos (01)
(02 04 06 08)
Joe Harriott  - alto
William Bennett - flute
Roger Pugh - harpsichord
Dennis Bowden - bass
Bobby Orr - drums
Jack Rothstein - violin
Anthony Gilbert - violin
Kenneth Essex - viola
Charles tunnell - cello
(07)
Joe Harriott  - alto
Pat Smythe - piano

01 Saga (Mack, Berkwood) (4:09)
02 Portrait Of Jennie (Robinson) (4:33)
03 Now's The Time (Parker) (3:59)
04 Indian Summer (Herbert) (4:06)
05 Darn That Dream (Van Heusen) (5:42)
06 September Song (Weill) (4:23)
07 Abstract Doodle (Harriott, Smythe) (3:31)
08 Mr Blueshead (Mack) (3:54)

EMI Columbia lp SCX 6249
Recorded 1967
Contributed by bluebird, who writes
I must admit that I was quite disappointed with it. Not for Joe's playing, which is up to his always high standards and quite beautiful in places, but for the turgid arrangements by David Mack (anyone ever heard of him?). The use of a harpsichord on some tracks adds to the general soporific atmosphere and the strings do absolutely nothing for the music. The vibes player on 'Darn That Dream' is probably Stan Tracey, the pianist on the small group tracks, but there is no mention of vibes in the sleeve notes. The music does come to life in one or two places so it cannot be completely written off though. Anything with Joe is worth hearing for his playing alone.
All the tracks were recorded in London during 1967 - no other dates are mentioned - four are with strings, three have a smallish group and one has Joe playing a freeform piece just with pianist Pat Smythe.
There are far better examples of Joe Harriott around but this lp has never been re-issued on cd and is quite hard to find these days so it probably has some curiosity value at least.
FLAC with lp cover scans.

April 28 2014 : The diligence of jazzandylan has once more been brought to bear on the front cover. Above is an improved version which you can copy from here if you wish. Thanks to him.

0320 Joe Harriott [Abstract] FLAC 8(45.53)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
This is the second of Joe Harriott's ground-breaking free forms records contained in two sessions from 1961 and 1962. Bobby Orr replaces Phil Seamen on the later session which, for some reason, appears first on this cd.
You either love it or hate it but you can't ignore it.
Joe struggled to get public and critical acceptance of this type of music music and soon all but abandoned it. Perhaps the great British public just wasn't ready for it in 1961. Well, Acker Bilk and Co. were at their peak then.

Shake Keane - trumpet
Joe Harriott - alto
Pat Smythe - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Bobby Orr - drums (01-04)
Phil Seamen - drums (05-08)
Frank Holder - bongos (05 08)

01 Subject (Harriott, Mayer) (6:02)
02 Shadows (Harriott) (6:00)
03 Oleo (Rollins) (7:10)
04 Modal (Harriott) (4:48)
05 Tonal (Harriott) (5:10)
06 Pictures (Harriott) (5:09)
07 Idioms (Harriott) (6:28)
08 Compound (Harriott) (5:05)

Label: Redial 538 183-2
Recorded: November 22 1961 (05-08) May 10 1962 (01-04)
Lineage: CD>FLAC

0309 Joe Harriott [Live At The Free Trade Hall Manchester] FLAC 4(31.26)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
Joe's Quintet was the support group for the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their 1961 UK Tour.
This is not a complete set as Joe says before the first number...'continue with a composition...' but it is a typical live set with a mixture of jazz and free form. Joe's ground-breaking album 'Free Form' had been recorded a couple of months earlier but the public and critics had mixed views about this 'new' jazz. Joe thought that a concert audience might be more receptive to this music than club audiences but whilst the applause here for the free form numbers is polite, it is far from enthusiastic.
The drummer is Phil Seamen who plays more or less as usual ignoring the 'free' conventions but his days with the group were numbered as his addictions made him unreliable and notoriously unpunctual.
I saw Phil performing just once. He was part of the support group for one of the American touring bands, perhaps Woody Herman, at the Odeon Cinema in Leeds during the 1960s and he was the last to appear on stage. He looked absolutely dreadful - a walking skeleton, chalk white. He played the first number with the group and then left the stage. We never saw him again that night but his musical colleagues seemed unperturbed. They just played on without him as though this was a regular occurrence.  Perhaps it was.
Coleridge Goode the bass player in the Joe Harriott Quintet recalls that .....  'Phil could scarcely have chosen a worse night to miss the band call than their Brubeck tour performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.'   Coleridge remembered how the other members of the Quintet were forced to take the stage without Seamen who then appeared  suddenly from nowhere just as the performance seemed doomed.  'And there and then, in front of everybody, he was sick all over the place with Brubeck standing watching us.'
Joe announces the numbers speaking slowly and enunciating beautifully. He was immaculately turned out, always wearing a suit and tie wherever he was appearing and he was always the professional.
FLAC from cd with 'cover picture' and track/personnel details.

Les Condon - trumpet
Joe Harriott - alto
Pat Smythe - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Moanin' (Timmons) (6:39)
02 'Round About Midnight (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) (6:31)
03 Joe Explains Freeform: Coda (Harriott) (8:20)
04 Tempo (Harriott) (9:56)

Recorded: January 27 1961

0305 Don Carlos [Crazy Latin] FLAC 12(33.35)

Contributed by azule serape, who writes:-
A breezy latin flavoured 1960 record from pianist 'Don Carlos' a supposedly famous figure on the British Latin American scene and with arrangements by Kenny Graham, no less. He also provided five of the tunes heard.
Joe Harriott pops up here and there and there is support from Bobby Pratt, Bert Courtley and Phil Seamen. Otherwise the assembled musicians are anonymous.
A scarce record to find, never on cd, and worth a listen for Joe Harriott alone.

Don Carlos - leader, piano
Bobby Pratt - trumpet
Bert Courtley - trumpet
Hank Stamps - bass trombone
Joe Harriott - alto
Phil Seamen - drums, percussion
Kenny Graham - arranger
and others

01 T'ain't What You Do (Oliver, Young) (3:35)
02 Frenesi (Dominguez, Whitcup) (2:30)
03 Oh, Pampanino (Corvos) (3:00)
04 Cha-Cha-Cha-Charlie (Graham) (2:47)
05 Taboo (Leucona, Russell) (2:50)
06 Crazy Latin (Graham) (2:58)
07 Tangerine (Schertzinger) 2:26)
08 Sunset (Graham) (2:56)
09 In A Little Spanish Town (Wayne) (2:23)
10 Chu-Chin-Cha-Cha-Cha (Graham) (3:22)
11 Adios, Mariquita Linda (Jiménez) (2:55)
12 Beats In The Belfry (Graham) (1:51)

Label: Columbia 33SX 1237
Recorded: 1960
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0297 Tony Kinsey [Trio with Joe Harriott] FLAC 4(12.10)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
More fine music from Joe Harriott with Tony Kinsey on Esquire.

Joe Harriott - alto
Bill Le Sage - vibes, piano
Sammy Stokes - bass
Tony Kinsey - drums

01 Last Resort (LeSage) (2:44)
02 Best Behaviour (LeSage) (3:00)
03 How Deep is the Ocean (Berlin) (2:52)
04 Get Happy (Arlen, Koehler) (3:35)

Label: Esquire 82
Recorded: May 13 1954
Lineage: EP>FLAC

0287 Al Fairweather [Al's Pals] FLAC 4(16.02)

Contributed by azule serape, who writes:-
In 1969 Al Fairweather and Sandy Brown made a record called 'Al's Pals' which featured guest artists with the regular band.
One of the guests on four tracks was alto saxophonist Joe Harriott proving once more that he could play anything with anybody and these are the tracks presented here.
Byron Gay wrote the words and music for the 1927 song 'Four Or Five Times' (and just listen to Joe taking off on this one), whilst Al Fairweather contributed the other three originals.

Al Fairweather - trumpet
Tony Milliner - trombone
Joe Harriott - alto
Bob Burns - tenor
Cliff Townsend - baritone
Sandy Brown  - clarinet
Stan Greig - piano
Jack Fallon - bass
Lennie Hastings - drums

01 Beat Meat (Fairweather) (3:29)
02 Four Or Five Times (Gay) (3:20)
03 Jim Jam (Fairweather) (2:43)
04 Sue's Blues (Fairweather) (6:30)

Label: Columbia 33XS 1221
Recorded: September 30 1959

0276 Steve Race [The Jazz Stars] FLAC 2(5.27)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
Here's an oddity. A jazz 45 from 1962 with a super group calling themselves 'The Jazz Stars'.  Just look at the line up.
I wonder why just a single was issued?

Steve Race - leader
Don Rendell - soprano 
Joe Harriott - alto 
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Ronnie Ross - baritone 
Terry Shannon - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Allan Ganley - drums

01 The Jazz Scene (Steve Race) (2:46)
02 Have Jazz Will Travel (Steve Race) (2:34)

Label: London Pye 7NJ 2059
Recorded: September 06 1962
Lineage: EP>FLAC

0269 Shake Keane [In My Condition] FLAC 4(13.44)

Contributed by The Boogieman

Shake Keane - trumpet, flugelhorn
Joe Harriott - alto
Pat Smythe - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Tommy Jones - drums

01 How Say You (Keane) (2:57)
02 Morning Blue (Harriott) (4:41)
03 Fidel (Keane) (2:36)
04 In My Condition (Keane) (3:30)

Label: Lansdowne Jazz Series SEG 8140
Recorded: August 31 1961
Lineage: EP>FLAC

0200 Joe Harriott [Free Form] FLAC 8(46.13)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
This is a landmark post for BritJazz in that this is the first time a toe is being dipped into the sometimes murky waters of 'Free Form' jazz.
Having said that, one wonders what all the fuss was about when this was released in 1960 when today's standards are applied. The music was compared, usually favourably, with the recordings of Ornette Coleman from the same period although Coleman's music was more aggressive and angry.
The British public was ambivalent about the music back in 1960 when it was felt in some quarters that it was too revolutionary and that it wasn't 'proper' jazz. Joe used to alternate a free piece with a more conventional piece at his concerts/club dates in order to satisfy the public but the music critics were very supportive.
Hearing the music now it cannot really be described as totally 'free'.  Whilst the front line instruments enjoy a great deal of musical freedom, the rhythm section (which surprisingly has Phil Seamen on drums) maintains a steady beat but overall the music is fresh, original and very enjoyable."

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

01 Formation (Harriott) (6:14)
02 Coda (Harriott) (8:00)
03 Abstract (Harriott) (3:40)
04 Impression (Harriott) (5:33)
05 Parallel (Harriott) (5:42)
06 Straight Lines (Harriott) (5:58)
07 Calypso (Harriott) (4:44)
08 Tempo (Harriott) (6:23)

Label: Jazzland JLP 49
Recorded: November 1960

0193 Joe Harriott [No Strings] FLAC 4(12.40)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:
A reference to his ep 'With Strings' recorded a few months earlier but this is Joe just with his working Quartet playing two standards and two of his originals. Fine stuff indeed.

Joe Harriott - alto
Max Harris - piano
Sammy Stokes - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Just Goofin' (2:02)
02 Everything Happens to Me (4:44)
03 Just Friends (2:42)
04 Joe's Blues (3:13)

Label: Nixa NJE 1003
Recorded: August 24 1955
Lineage: EP>FLAC

0179 Joe Harriott [Joe Harriott With Strings] FLAC 2(9.00)

Contributed by delmonico, who writes:-
A two track ep featuring Joe's Quartet with strings from 1955. This seems to have been the badge of respectability back then - if you played with strings then you were a legitimate musician
The only person who pulled it off that I can recall was Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter with 'Focus'. Everybody else played nicely, stuck to the melody and nothing too exciting happened.
Joe is no exception here - but Joe could play anything with anybody and still sound good."
FLAC with cover picture, track details and pdf file.

Joe Harriott - alto
Max Harris - piano
Maria Korchinsky - harp
Sammy Stokes - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
Dave McCullum - violin
Sid Camine - violin
David Katz - violin
Louis Rosin - viola
Fred Alexander - cello

01 I'll Remember April (3:53)
02 Easy to Love (5:07)

Label: JTE 106 (ep)
Recorded: May 27 1955
Lineage: EP>FLAC

0141 Joe Harriott [A Guy Called Joe] FLAC 2(11.09)

Contributed by Brufan

Shake Keane - trumpet, flugelhorn
Joe Harriott - alto
Harry South - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Bobby Orr - drums
Frank Holder - bongoes

01 Liggin' (South) (5:38)
02 Caravan (Tizol, Ellington) (5:32)

Label: SEG 8070
Recorded: April 08 (02) 21 (01) 1960
Lineage: EP>FLAC

0124 Tony Kinsey [Tony Kinsey with Joe Harriott] FLAC 2(12.37)

Contributed by Brufan
A warm welcome from everyone here to our newest contributor Brufan, and appreciation for this fine addition to our library.

Joe Harriott - alto
Bill Le Sage - piano
Sammy Stokes - bass
Tony Kinsey - drums

01 The Song Is You
02 It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Label: Esquire EP 52
Recorded: December 09 1954
Lineage: EP>FLAC

0116 Modern Jazz Quartet [With Guests Joe Harriott and Ronnie Ross] FLAC 10(1.17.07)

Contributed by delmonico

Joe Harriott and Ronnie Ross were guests on the MJQ's tour of the UK in 1959 and whilst most (if not all) of the two performances were privately recorded on 4 December in Manchester, the tracks heard here are concerned only with the featured solo spots of the two British musicians and the other tracks on which they have solos.
John Lewis makes the announcements.

Joe Harriott - alto
Ronnie Ross - baritone
Milt Jackson - vibes
John Lewis - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Connie Kay - drums

01 Django
02 Autumn In New York
03 How Long Has This Been Going On?
04 A Night In Tunisia
05 Bags' Groove
06 Django
07 Autumn In New York
08 Body And Soul
09 A Night In Tunisia
10 All The Things You Are

Label: Private Recording
Recorded: December 04 1959 Manchester
Lineage: Tape>FLAC

0102 Various [Bop-In' Britain Volume 2] FLAC 23(1.09.34)

Contributed by Azule Serape, who writes:-
The second volume of early British bop from the 1952-1954 period with groups led by Victor Feldman, Arnold Ross, Vic Ash, Joe Harriott and the All-Stars. There might be some duplication here with other posts made earlier, eg. Arnold Ross, but this is inevitable in a work of this nature.
The tracks are drawn mainly from the small Esquire and Melodisc labels. The big labels were not particularly interested at this early stage but this is a wonderful compilation of early Britjazz featuring the big names of the day. The Vic Ash tracks are his first as leader.

Jimmy Deuchar - trumpet
Jo Hunter - trumpet
Ken Wray - trombone
Derek Humble - alto
Joe Harriott - alto
Tommy Whittle - tenor
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Joe Temperley - tenor
Harry Klein - baritone
Vic Ash - clarinet
Victor Feldman - vibes
Gerry McLoughlin - vibes
Stan Tracey - piano
Arnold Ross - piano
Derek Smith - piano
Dill Jones - piano
Kenny Napper - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Joe Benjamin - bass
Sammy Stokes - bass
Jack Fallon - bass
Sammy Stokes - bass
Johnny Hawksworth - bass
Martin Aston - drums
Tony Kinsey - drums
Jack Parnell - drums
Allan Ganley - drums
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Lullaby in Rhythm
02 Serenity
03 Just Friends
04 Euphony
05 Janie
06 Darn That Dream
07 Speechless
08 Twelve to Four
09 The Champ
10 All the Things You Are
11 Once in a While
12 These Foolish Things
13 Nice Work If You Can Get It
14 Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
15 Ain't Misbehavin'
16 Blue Room
17 Lullaby of the Leaves
18 Summertime
19 April in Paris
20 Cherokee
21 Out of Nowhere
22 Hi-Ya Mr Jackson
23 Spaceship

Lineage: CD>FLAC

0064 Joe Harriott [Cool Jazz with Joe] FLAC 4(12.40)

Contributed by Azule Serape
An early session for Joe Harriott as leader with his Quartet playing four standards. We hear Dill Jones again.

Joe Harritt - alto
Dill Jones - piano
Jack Fallon - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Summertime
02 April in Paris
03 Cherokee
04 Out of Nowhere

Label: Melodisc ep - EPM7-117
Recorded: London February 1954
Lineage: EP>FLAC