| Southern Horizons | ||||
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| 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]
| Review scores | |
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| 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]
All compositions by Joe Harriott except as indicated
Source: [4]
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