Joe Harriott

[danasgoodstuff]

I'd say Bobby Orr was one of the five most famous players in NHL history, certainly top 10.

Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Bobby Clarke

What no 'Rocket' Richard?!!

[Late]

Southern Horizons.

Carpe!

[Rabshakeh]

In Heining’s book on British jazz, he mentions that Dizzy Gillespie criticised Harriott, and a hurt response by Harriott. Does anyone know what this is a reference to?

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

In Heining’s book on British jazz, he mentions that Dizzy Gillespie criticised Harriott, and a hurt response by Harriott. Does anyone know what this is a reference to?

Maybe Diz was jealous of the two Indo-Jazz albums.  

[JSngry]

Maybe he beeped when he should have bopped? 

[romualdo]

7 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

In Heining’s book on British jazz, he mentions that Dizzy Gillespie criticised Harriott, and a hurt response by Harriott. Does anyone know what this is a reference to?

could possibly be this (extract from Alan Robertson's "Joe Harriott - Fire In His Soul", p80, 1st edn) - a response to the Free Form LP & "free" jazz in general

As for the jazz public's reaction to the music, Coleridge Goode felt, 'A lot of people liked it. I think the majority of jazz fans liked it but, funnily enough, it was the other musicians who were dead set against it. But we used to play in Ronnie Scott's Old place in Gerrard St and, as we all know, a few years later free music turned out to be very much the thing to do'.

One musician dead set against it was Dizzy Gillespie. Harriott told Melody Maker that at an overseas festival, possibly Antibes, he asked Dizzy to sit in and 'he said, "I don't want to play none of your damn weird music." Dizzy was put down in just the same way when he started experimenting. When he said that to me I felt, you can play your music better than anyone else, but you can't play mine.'

[Rabshakeh]

3 hours ago, romualdo said:

could possibly be this (extract from Alan Robertson's "Joe Harriott - Fire In His Soul", p80, 1st edn) - a response to the Free Form LP & "free" jazz in general

As for the jazz public's reaction to the music, Coleridge Goode felt, 'A lot of people liked it. I think the majority of jazz fans liked it but, funnily enough, it was the other musicians who were dead set against it. But we used to play in Ronnie Scott's Old place in Gerrard St and, as we all know, a few years later free music turned out to be very much the thing to do'.

One musician dead set against it was Dizzy Gillespie. Harriott told Melody Maker that at an overseas festival, possibly Antibes, he asked Dizzy to sit in and 'he said, "I don't want to play none of your damn weird music." Dizzy was put down in just the same way when he started experimenting. When he said that to me I felt, you can play your music better than anyone else, but you can't play mine.'

That's got to be it. Interesting that Harriott's music was known to Dizzy Gillespie.