Holding out for a hero: Soweto Kinch on Joe Harriott

Joe Harriott brought a Caribbean flavour to his fiery free-jazz. He also died, broke, at 44. Soweto Kinch on the great British jazzman we neglected for too longI first came across Joe Harriott while I was playing with Jazz Jamaica, a ska and jazz big band assembled by Gary Crosby. There was a veteran Jamaican trumpeter in the band called Eddie "Tan Tan" Thornton, who used to say that I reminded him of Harriott – that I looked a bit like him and played the alto saxophone a bit like him. Eddie h...

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