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Joe Harriott 'Hum Dono' Reissue


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So yesterday the Amazon app on my iPhone would allow me to order and pay for downloads directly from the phone. Last week this was not possible. And today again it is not possible. Does anybody know what is going on with the Amazon app?

PS I only ask this because I went there to try and download Hum Dono!

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It's on UK Spotify too.

I can hear why people rate it. It's scarcity has probably inflated the esteem in which it's held but it's a very nice session indeed. Wonderfully of its time

Indeed. It's no game-changer, but if I had a CD, I'd play it pretty often. A very enjoyable record.

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You may have been joking, but I am listening right now to Hum Dono on Google music, and I am not joking!

Edit: I see it's available also from Itunes and Amazon.

Yes on iTunes and Amazon! I would like to learn more about this reissue. Seemingly it happened in May. In terms of OOP UK-recorded jazz albums this one has been at the top of most people's wants list for many years.

You may have been joking, but I am listening right now to Hum Dono on Google music, and I am not joking!

Edit: I see it's available also from Itunes and Amazon.

Yes on iTunes and Amazon! I would like to learn more about this reissue. Seemingly it happened in May. In terms of OOP UK-recorded jazz albums this one has been at the top of most people's wants list for many years.

I should add that the correct group name was the Joe Harriott - Amancio D'Silva Quartet and featuring Ian Carr and Norma Winstone (but not on all tracks).

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Aren't the tapes missing though?

Jaipur appeared on the officially sanctioned compilation CD by Giles Peterson Impressed Vol 1 so I believe the tapes do exist (as with Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe)

Both of which have been studiously overlooked for reissue by the license owners.

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Just listening to the Spotify version. Leaving aside the legality/morality issues, sound seems very good to me, even if it's almost certainly from a vinyl copy (there are odd things that sound like clicks to me). Probably won't impress audiophiles but if you want to hear the music. And I've heard far, far worse re-masterings of old material from the Big Boys.

Music sounds excellent - rhythmically much more flexible than the Indo-Fusion discs. Harriott sounds beautiful and D'Silva sounds like no other guitar player I can think of on the British jazz scene of the time.

Might not be the Dead Sea Scrolls but it's a record that should be out there.

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Aren't the tapes missing though?

Jaipur appeared on the officially sanctioned compilation CD by Giles Peterson Impressed Vol 1 so I believe the tapes do exist (as with Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe)

Both of which have been studiously overlooked for reissue by the license owners.

I'll find it later, but there's an article on that very compilation which stated that Peterson couldn't locate the tapes and used a needledrop for that track.

Here we go:

http://www.jazzinternationale.com/impressed-oh-yes-we-are/

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Aren't the tapes missing though?

Jaipur appeared on the officially sanctioned compilation CD by Giles Peterson Impressed Vol 1 so I believe the tapes do exist (as with Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe)

Both of which have been studiously overlooked for reissue by the license owners.

I'll find it later, but there's an article on that very compilation which stated that Peterson couldn't locate the tapes and used a needledrop for that track.

Here we go:

http://www.jazzinternationale.com/impressed-oh-yes-we-are/

Interesting, that interview does now ring a bell and I stand corrected! As has already been stated, the quality of this download isn't bad. I haven't yet heard tell-tale scratches and clicks, so I guess there must be some good vinyl copies still around, albeit very few. Thanks for that.

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Just listening to the Spotify version. Leaving aside the legality/morality issues, sound seems very good to me, even if it's almost certainly from a vinyl copy (there are odd things that sound like clicks to me). Probably won't impress audiophiles but if you want to hear the music. And I've heard far, far worse re-masterings of old material from the Big Boys.

Music sounds excellent - rhythmically much more flexible than the Indo-Fusion discs. Harriott sounds beautiful and D'Silva sounds like no other guitar player I can think of on the British jazz scene of the time.

Might not be the Dead Sea Scrolls but it's a record that should be out there.

Pretty much my take too. Spotify version sounds quite 'swishy' at points but it's good enough to hear the music (at last)

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