Southern Horizons

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Southern Horizons
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Studio album by
Released1960
RecordedMay 5, 1959 and April 8 & 21, 1960
London, England
Genre Jazz
Label Jazzland
JLP 37
Producer Denis Preston
Joe Harriott chronology
Southern Horizons
(1960)
Free Form
(1960)

Southern Horizons is an album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott recorded in England in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Jazzland label. [1]

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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

All compositions by Joe Harriott except as indicated

  1. "Still Goofin'" - 2:45
  2. "Count Twelve" - 3:38
  3. "Señor Blues" (Horace Silver) - 4:00
  4. "Southern Horizons" - 6:33 (Harry South)
  5. "Jumpin' with Joe" - 3:28 (South)
  6. "Liggin'" - 5:48 (South)
  7. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol, Irving Mills) - 5:40
  8. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 6:32
  9. "Tuesday Morning Swing" - 3:00

Personnel

Source: [4]

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References

  1. Jazzland Records discography accessed November 13, 2012
  2. AllMusic Review accessed November 13, 2012
  3. 1 2 Feather, Leonard (August 17, 1961). "Joe Harriott: Southern Horizons". DownBeat . Vol. 28, no. 17. pp. 30, 32.
  4. "Joe Harriott: Southern Horizons + Free Form + Abstract (3 LP on 2 CD)". freshsoundrecords.com. Retrieved April 4, 2020.