The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Joe Harriott Quintet
Southern Horizons,
Free Form and Abstract
(Fresh Sound)
THE cover photograph on the 1960 Joe Harriott album Southern Horizons of a posing Christine Keeler lookalike under a Union Jack certainly belies the Caribbean musical genius, hidden under the alienated sleeve, which comes bursting out of the grooves.
Alto saxophonist Harriott, born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1928, who arrived in London in 1951 playing licks like no other in Britain, is joined by bassist Coleridge Goode, born in St Andrew on the south-eastern side of the island in 1914.
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