Free Form

by Joe Harriott Quintet

Free Form cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1961
  • Label: Jazzland
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 45:13
  • Community rating: 3.96/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded for the Jazzland label, this album documents alto saxophonist Joe Harriott's pioneering development of European free jazz. Operating concurrently with but independently of Ornette Coleman's American experiments, Harriott's ensemble utilized abstract, collective improvisation while retaining distinct rhythmic and thematic centers.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, avant-garde, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Formation (6:06)
  2. Coda (7:53)
  3. Abstract (3:32)
  4. Impression (5:25)
  5. Parallel (5:32)
  6. Straight Lines (5:50)
  7. Calypso Sketches (4:37)
  8. Tempo (6:18)

Credits

  • Joe Harriott Quintet - primary artist
  • Joe Harriott - alto saxophone, composed by
  • Donald Silverstein - artwork [front sleeve]
  • Ken Deardoff - artwork [front sleeve], artwork [rear sleeve]
  • Coleridge Goode - bass
  • Phil Seamen - drums
  • Pat Smythe - piano
  • Denis Preston - producer
  • Adrian Kerridge - recorded by [recording engineer]
  • Shake Keane - trumpet, flugelhorn

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