Southern Horizons
| Southern Horizons | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1960 | |||
| Recorded | May 5, 1959 and April 8 & 21, 1960 London, England | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Jazzland JLP 37 | |||
| Producer | Denis Preston | |||
| Joe Harriott chronology | ||||
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Southern Horizons is an album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott recorded in England in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Jazzland label.[1]
Reception[edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| DownBeat | [3] |
Leonard Feather, the contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer, criticized the thinness of the audio quality and commented on the ordinariness of the original compositions, with the exceptions of "Liggin'" and the title track.[3]
Track listing[edit]
All compositions by Joe Harriott except as indicated
- "Still Goofin'" - 2:45
- "Count Twelve" - 3:38
- "Señor Blues" (Horace Silver) - 4:00
- "Southern Horizons" - 6:33 (Harry South)
- "Jumpin' with Joe" - 3:28 (South)
- "Liggin'" - 5:48 (South)
- "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol, Irving Mills) - 5:40
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 6:32
- "Tuesday Morning Swing" - 3:00
Personnel[edit]
- Joe Harriott – alto saxophone
- Hank Shaw – trumpet (tracks 1–3, 5)
- Shake Keane – trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 4, 6–9)
- Harry South – piano
- Coleridge Goode – bass
- Bobby Orr – drums
- Frank Holder – bongos (tracks 4, 7)
Source:[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Jazzland Records discography accessed November 13, 2012
- ^ AllMusic Review accessed November 13, 2012
- ^ a b Feather, Leonard (August 17, 1961). "Joe Harriott: Southern Horizons". DownBeat. Vol. 28, no. 17. pp. 30, 32.
- ^ "Joe Harriott: Southern Horizons + Free Form + Abstract (3 LP on 2 CD)". freshsoundrecords.com. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
