Harriott, Joe -double Quintet-
Indo-jazz Suite
The magnificent Indo-Jazz suite by The Joe Harriott Double Quintet Under The Direction Of John Mayer. Features Kenny
Wheeler on trumpet, band leader Joe Harriott on alto saxophone, sitar player Diwan Motihar and more. On Indo-Jazz
Suite's release in 1966 its four tracks - Overture, Contrasts, Raga Megha and Raga Gaud-Saranga - freeze-framed
something in Indo-jazz fusion that was unique to Britain. The States may have had happening notables like Don Ellis but
never a John Mayer or a Joe Harriott. Mayer was a Calcutta-raised composer-violinist as equally at home in Hindustani
classical and Indian vernacular forms as he was in Western classical and popular music forms. Kingston, Jamaica-born
altoist Harriott was a jazzer who took the jazz path rather than the jazz-into-ska route.
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
08-09-2023
Label
Item-nr
565951
EAN
0889397431020
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
OVERTURE 08:06
2
CONTRASTS 09:24
3
RAGA MEGHA 08:39
4
RAGA GAUD-SARANGA 09:10