Personal Portrait by Joe Harriott released by Columbia in 1968 as part of their Landsdowne Series.

"...1968's Personal Portrait (Columbia) was a mixed bag of jazz with strings and some affecting work with old bandmate Smythe and Stan Tracey.." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDOWiS60PcE&list=RDjDOWiS60PcE&start_radio=1

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Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday after a walk with Indo-Jazz Fusions II by Joe Harriott - John Mayer Double Quintet, released on Columbia in 1968.

Jarmo Eskelinen October 17, 2025

...on this second try the fusion works much better, especially on the side-long Partita. After the Indian intro, the tune flows easily to a relaxed modal groove, with tablas and the sitar gelling perfectly with the jazz band. Harriott is a talented saxophonist and original improviser, with a tonal world and sound well suited for world fusion. Side two is a bit more uneven, but the closing track ’Subject’ nails the pioneering sound convincingly. On the next album ’Hum Dono’ Harriott would find his soul mate in guitarist Amancio D’Silva and reach the pinnacle of the indo-jazz fusion to new heights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S74v3HuIBaM&list=PL4ga6uXkJwHfgnZxKL-tuHrp1lPpNoJyJ&index=7

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This is the cover of the LP version of the tape I picked up in a bargain bin back in the 80s for £1, having never heard of any of the artists. The tape has long since snapped, as cassette tapes tend to do, but given my lifelong love of the music, it was a good investment!

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Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Indo-Jazz Fusions by the Joe Harriott - John Mayer Double Quintet, released on Columbia in 1967.

..Reedman Joe Harriott and his trumpeter Shake Keane both brought a fresh West Indian sensibility to the London scene in the 50s -- and violinist/keyboardist John Mayer brought some very strong expressions from Indian music -- both of which are blended here in an amazing way that went onto have a huge influence on other records for years to come! The tracks are long, and all penned by Mayer -- in a mode that draws heavily from Indian classical music, but features lots of jazz elements...Mayer plays both violin and harpsichord -- amidst sitar, tambura, and tablas too - Dusty Groove

Picked this combined with the previous LP from '66 up on a bargain bin on cassette back in the 80s!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqbh-o__qIE&list=OLAK5uy_l4pyAtAymMXv7XhyW0E_rXGGzlre6VNf4

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Abstract is an album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott, recorded in England in November 1961 and May 1962, and released on the Columbia (UK) label in February 1963.

Abstract was the first album by a British jazz group to be awarded five stars in a Down Beat review.

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars and in its review by Thom Jurek, he states "Abstract is wonderful; it shows that the Brits were taking the new jazz of the early '60s and placing a spin on it because they had a few players like Joe Harriott. Here is a musician deserving of a wide reappraisal. Let's hope he gets it". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYDiYTRjdV0&list=RDeYDiYTRjdV0&start_radio=1

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Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with Indo-Jazz Suite by The Joe Harriott Double Quintet, released in 1966 on Columbia

Indo-Jazz Suite Review by Thom Jurek

...This work, written and directed by Mayer, offered the closest ever collaboration and uniting of musics East and West. Based almost entirely in the five-note raga -- or tonic scale that Indian classical music emanates from -- and Western modalism, the four ragas that make up the suite are a wonder of tonal invention and modal complexity, and a rapprochement to Western harmony. The band Harriott assembled here included his own group -- pianist Pat Smythe, bassist Coleridge Goode, and drummer Allan Ganley -- as well as trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, flutist Chris Taylor, Diwan Mothar on sitar, Chandrahas Paiganka on tamboura, and Keshan Sathe on tabla, with Mayer playing violin and Harriott on his alto...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-_uyBwh7FQ&list=RDU-_uyBwh7FQ&start_radio=1

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High Spirits is an album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott featuring selections from the musical High Spirits written by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray which was recorded in England in 1964 and released on the Columbia (UK) label in February 1965.

Morton Jack writes that the "arrangements leave plenty of space for incisive, sensitive solos from Harriott and Keane [giving it] an improvisational edge that rescues it from blandness." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl6B8bFcY2Q&list=RDDl6B8bFcY2Q&start_radio=1

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