The Swan Song of British Modernism: Re-evaluating Joe Harriott’s Quintet and the Landmark Vinyl Reissue of High Spirits
Executive Overview In the sprawling, often insular narrative of post-war British jazz, few figures cast a shadow as long, sharp, and avant-garde as Jamaican-born alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Celebrated globally as a pioneer of free-form jazz—an innovator working concurrently with, yet entirely independently of, Ornette Coleman in the United States—Harriott pushed the boundaries of musical … Read more
