''Free Form'' is an album by Jamaican saxophonist

Joe Harriott Joseph Arthurlin Harriott (15 July 1928 – 2 January 1973) was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone. Initially a bebopper, he became a pioneer of free-form jazz. Born in Kingston, Harriott ...

recorded in England in 1960 and the second released on the Jazzland label.Jazzland Records discography
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Reception

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awarded the album 4 stars stating "Comparable to

Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Col ...

's recordings of the period, these eight pieces incorporate Harriott's hard bop influence, cutting through adventurous compositions."Campbell, A
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Track listing

''All compositions by Joe Harriott'' # "Formation" - 6:13 # "Coda" - 8:00 # "Abstract" - 3:39 # "Impression" - 5:32 # "Parallel" - 5:42 # "Straight Lines" - 5:57 # "Calypso" - 4:44 # "Tempo" - 6:23

Personnel

- alto saxophone *

Shake Keane Ellsworth McGranahan "Shake" Keane (30 May 1927 – 11 November 1997) was a Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vincentian jazz musician and poet. He is best known today for his role as a jazz trumpeter, principally his work as a member of the gro ...

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

* Pat Smythe -

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Coleridge Goode George Coleridge Emerson Goode (29 November 1914 – 2 October 2015) was a British Jamaican-born jazz bassist best known for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Goode was a member of Harriott's innovatory jazz quintet thr ...

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Phil Seamen Philip William Seamen (28 August 1926 – 13 October 1972) was an English jazz drummer. With a background in big band music, Seamen played and recorded in a wide range of musical contexts with virtually every key figure of 1950s and 1960s Bri ...

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References

{{Authority control Jazzland Records (1960) albums Joe Harriott albums 1961 albums