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The Joe Harriott Quintet: Abstract – Free Jazz was never so free

This album is famous for having received the first ever five-star review for a jazz album  from Harvey Pekar in Down Beat. Harriott was always keen to communicate his ideas, be it on stage, in interviews or album liner notes. In 1962, he wrote in the liner notes for his Abstract album, “of the various components comprising jazz today […]