The Many Faces of Harry Beckett A book about his life and music
The Many Faces of Harry BeckettA book about his life and music 

Harry Beckett Discography

Artist/Group Title Original label Recording date Year first released
Charles Mingus Peggy’s Blue Skyiight Acetate only 01/07/61 N/A
West African Rhythm Brothers Various singles Melodisc? 01/01/63 1963
Nigerian Union Rhythm Group ? Melodisc? 01/01/66 1966
Ambrose Campbell High Life Today Columbia Lansdowne 01/01/66 1966
The Graham Collier Septet Deep Dark Blue Centre Deram 24/01/67 1967
The Graham Collier Septet Velvet Voodoo – Trailer Happiness (Crumblin’ Cookie) whatmusic 24/01/67 1967
Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers No.1 In Your Heart Parlaphone 01/07/67 1967
Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers “Soultime!” (Compilation) See For Miles   1992
John Surman • Alan Skidmore • Tony Oxley Jazz In Britain '68-'69 Decca Eclipse 01/03/69 1972
Small Faces Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake Immediate 01/01/68 1968
Graham Collier Workpoints Cuneiform 16/03/68 2005
Graham Collier Cuneiform Story (The Barley Mow) Cuneiform 16/03/68 2005
Graham Collier Cuneiform Records Sampler 3 (Darius, Part 1) Cuneiform 01/08/75 2005
John Surman John Surman (Anglo-Sax in the US) Deram 14/08/68 1969
The New Jazz Orchestra Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe Verve 01/09/68 1969
The New Jazz Orchestra Impressed With Gilles Peterson (Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe) Universal 01/09/68 2004
Ray Russell Quartet Dragon Hill CBS Realm 01/01/69 1969
Michelin Commercial Theme     01/01/69 1969
Keef Hartley Band The Battle Of North West Six Deram 01/01/69 1969
Various Wowie Zowie! The World Of Progressive Music (includes Not Foolish, Not Wise from The Battle Of North West Six) Decca 01/01/69 1969
Graham Collier Sextet Down Another Road Fontana 21/03/69 1969
Graham Collier Sextet (Aberdeen Angus) Aberdeen Angus included on Babyshambles Back To The Bus compilation Fontana 21/03/69 1969
Joe Harriott Journey (Extra track: In a Sentimental Mood with Stan Tracey Big Band) Moonlight Tunes 18/04/69 2011
Jack Bruce Songs For A Tailor Polydor 20/05/69 1969
Manfred Mann Chapter Three Manfred Mann Chapter Three Vertigo 01/06/69 1969
Georgie Fame Georgie Does His Thing With Strings CBS 01/06/69 1969
Alexis Korner Both Sides Metronome (Germany) 23/09/69 1970
Keef Hartley Band Halfbreed Deram Oct & Dec 1969 1969
Galliard New Dawn Deram 13/12/69 1970
Mike Osborne Outback Turtle 01/01/70 1970
Bob Downes Open Music Electric City Vertigo 01/01/70 1970
Ray Russell’s Rock Workshop Rock Workshop CBS 01/01/70 1970
Manfred Mann Chapter Three Volume Two Vertigo 01/01/70 1970
John Surman How Many Clouds Can You See? Deram 01/03/70 1970
Ray Russell’s Rock Workshop The Very Last Time CBS 04/04/70 1971
C.C.S. C.C.S. (First) RAK 01/05/70 1970
Neil Ardley’s New Jazz Orchestra Camden ‘70 Dusk Fire 26/05/70 2008
Graham Collier Music Songs For My Father Fontana 01/06/70 1970
Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar MCA 01/06/70 1970
Memphis Slim Blue Memphis Barclay 01/06/70 1970
Colosseum Daughter Of Time Vertigo 01/07/70 1970
Harry Beckett Flare Up Philips 15/07/70 1970
Harry Beckett Impressed With Gilles Peterson (Rolli’s Tune) Universal 15/07/70 2002
Ray Russell Rites And Rituals CBS 01/08/70 1971
Keef Hartley Band Not Foolish Not Wise Mooncrest Records 01/08/70 1999
The Trio Conflagration Dawn 01/11/70 1971
Graham Collier Music The Alternate Mosaics BGO Records 12/12/70 2008
Graham Collier Music Featuring Harry Beckett Mosaics Philips 12/12/70 1971
Ian Carr with Nucleus Solar Plexus Vertigo 14/12/70 1971
Michael Gibbs Tanglewood ‘63 Deram 23/12/70 1971
Harry Beckett Warm Smiles RCA Victor / Vocalion 01/01/71 1971
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Brotherhood RCA Neon 01/01/71 1971
Miller Anderson Bright City Deram 01/01/71 1971
Faces Long Player Warner Brothers 01/01/71 1971
Storyteller More Pages Transatlantic 01/01/71 1971
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath RCA Neon 09/01/71 1971
Neil Ardley & The New Jazz Orchestra On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971 Dusk Fire 25/01/71 2017
John Surman / John Warren Tales Of The Algonquin Deram 01/04/71 1971
Ray Russell Live At The I.C.A. RCA Victor 11/06/71 1971
The Keef Hartley Band Little Big Band Deram 13/06/71 1971
Oliver Nelson Swiss Suite Flying Dutchman 16/06/71 1972
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Bremen To Bridgwater Cuneiform 20/06/71 2004
Neil Ardley A Symphony Of Amaranths Regal Zonophone 23/06/71 1971
Mike Westbrook Orchestra Metropolis RCA Neon 03/08/71 1971
Mike Westbrook Orchestra Impressed With Gilles Peterson (Metropolis Part IX) Universal 03/08/71 2004
The Running Man The Running Man RCA Neon 15/10/71 1972
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Eclipse At Dawn Cuneiform 04/11/71 2008
Alexis Korner Bootleg Him! RAK 01/05/70 1972
Harry Beckett's S & R Powerhouse Sections Themes For Fega RCA Victor / Vocalion 04/02/72 1972
Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint Lo & Behold DJM 01/03/72 1972
Barry Guy/The London Jazz Composers' Orchestra Ode Incus 22/04/72 1972
The Mike Gibbs Band Just Ahead Polydor 31/05/72 1972
Various (Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath) International New Jazz Meeting Burg Altena 1972-1973 B. Free 24/06/72 2016
Alan Cohen Band Duke Ellington's Black Brown & Beige Argo 19/10/72 1973
London Jazz Composers Orchestra Ode Auditorium 22/10/72 2005
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Live At Willisau Ogun 27/01/73 1974
C.C.S. The Best Band In The Land RAK 01/01/73 1973
Scaffold Fresh Liver Island 01/01/73 1973
Jaki Whitren Raw But Tender Epic 01/01/73 1973
Ray Russell Secret Asylum Black Lion Records 01/01/73 1973
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Travelling Somewhere Cuneiform 19/01/73 2001
Alexis Korner Alexis Korner Polydor (Germany) 01/01/73 1974
Giorgio Gaslini L'Integrale - Antologia Cronologica - CD N°7 (1973), CD N°8 (1973-74) Soul Note 13/10/73 2008
Giorgio Gaslini & Jean-Luc Ponty Fabbrica Occupata Produttori Associati 27/10/73 1974
Sharon Forrester Sharon Ashanti 01/01/74 1974
Jóhann G. Jóhannsson Langspil Sól Spil 01/01/74 1974
Harry Beckett Joy Unlimited Cadillac Records 12/03/74 1975
Graham Collier Music Darius Mosaic 13/03/74 1974
Harry Beckett Still Happy Desire Records 11/08/74 2016
Graham Collier with Graham Collier Music Jazz Illustrations Cambridge University Press 01/01/75 1975
Graham Collier with Graham Collier Music Jazz Lecture Concert Cambridge University Press 01/01/75 1975
Graham Collier Music A New Life (Darius I) Jazzman Records 01/01/75 2015
Bob Downes Open Music Hells Angels Openian 01/01/75 1975
Various (including Graham Collier Music) Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers (Singing For The Small Change) Reel Recordings 01/01/75 2012
Eddy Grant Eddy Grant Torpedo 01/01/75 1975
Graham Collier Music Midnight Blue Mosaic 17/02/75 1975
John Warren Bigband Live (Sparkasse Bremen, Sparkasse In Concert II / 76) Sparkasse Bremen 21/06/75 1976
Harry Beckett Memories of Bacares Ogun 25/11/75 1975
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band The Roaring Silence Bronze 01/01/76 1976
Gary Windo Steam Radio Tapes (Stand Fast) Gonzo 01/01/76 2013
Elton Dean's Ninesense Oh! For The Edge Ogun 22/03/76 1976
Graham Collier Music New Conditions Mosaic 02/06/76 1976
Graham Collier Music Symphony Of Scorpions Mosaic 07/11/76 1977
Stan Tracey Octet The Bracknell Connection Steam 29/11/76 1976
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Procession Ogun 10/05/77 1978
Harry Beckett's Joy Unlimited Got It Made Ogun 13/07/77 1977
Elton Dean's Ninesense Happy Daze Ogun 26/07/77 1977
Stan Tracey Octet The Early Works ReSteamed 17/09/77 2008
The Jive Bureaux Stick It Gull 01/01/78 1978
Alan Price England My England Jet 01/01/78 1978
Stan Tracey Octet Salisbury Suite Steam 25/02/78 1978
Graham Collier Music The Day Of The Dead Mosaic 01/03/78 1978
Elton Dean's Ninesense Live At The BBC Hux 17/03/78 2003
Kathy Stobart Arbeia Spotlite 28/03/78 1978
Sonny Okosuns Ozziddi Sonny Okosun In 1980 Radic (EMI Nigeria) 01/01/79 1979
Elton Dean's Ninesense The 100 Club Concert 1979 Reel Recordings 05/03/79 2012
Barry Guy / London Jazz Composers Orchestra Stringer FMP 01/03/80 1983
Dudu Pukwana Sounds Zila Jika 16/01/81 1981
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Yes Please - Angoulème 1981 In And Out 01/06/81 1981
Elton Dean's Ninesense Ninesense Suite Jazzwerkstatt 20/06/81 2011
Weekend The View From Her Room (7” single) Rough Trade 01/01/82 1982
Beckett / Miller / Moholo Jazzwerkstatt Peitz No. 45 Jazzwerkstatt 24/04/82 2011
Robert Wyatt Nothing Can Stop Us Rough Trade 01/06/82 1982
Weekend La Varieté Rough Trade 01/07/82 1982
Trevor Bastow Sax Trax JW Music Library 01/01/83 1983
David Panton’s One Music Orchestra BBC Radio Three Jazz in Britain broadcast Private recording 27/06/93 1983
Dudu Pukwana And Zila Life In Bracknell & Willisau Jika 03/07/83 1983
Stan Tracey Stan Tracey Now Steam 09/07/83 1983
Albert Van Dam The Sentimental Touch RCA 01/01/84 1984
Working Week Storm Of Light (7” & 12” singles) Virgin / Paladin 01/05/84 1984
David Panton Quintet Live at Nottingham Jazz Panton Music 01/11/84 1984
David Panton & Associates Standard Deviation Panton Music 01/11/84 2016
Harry Beckett Pictures of You Virgin 01/01/85 1985
Jah Wobble & Ollie Marland Neon Moon Island 01/01/85 1985
Working Week Working Nights Virgin 01/01/85 1985
Working Week Featuring Jalal Of The Last Poets & Julie Tippetts Stella Marina (12” single) Virgin 01/01/85 1985
Working Week Pay Check (US Compilation) Virgin America 1984-1985 1988
Elton Dean Quintet The Bologna Tapes Ogun 18/04/85 1985
Johnny Dyani Quartet Angolian Cry Steeplechase 23/07/85 1985
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Even The Moon Is Dancing Steeplechase 30/07/85 1985
Lysis Superimpositions - IMProvised comPOSITIONS Soma 01/01/86 1986
David Defries The Secret City MMC 01/01/86 1986
Jah Wobble & Ollie Marland Tradewinds Lago 01/01/86 1986
David Sylvian Gone To Earth Virgin 01/01/86 1986
Dudu Pukwana Zila 86 Jika 01/01/86 1986
Chris McGregor And The South African Exiles Thunderbolt PAM 01/01/86 1986
The Charlie Watts Orchestra Live At Fulham Town Hall CBS 23/03/86 1986
Detail Plus ‎– Ness Ness Impetus 01/07/86 1986
Pulse! Stormy Weather Spotlite 12/07/86 1987
Elton Dean Quintet Welcomet Live In Brazil 1986 Impetus (Vinyl) & Ogun (CD) 01/01/87 1987
Harry Beckett / Johnny Dyani / Chris McGregor / Marilyn Mazur Grandmothers Teaching ITM 01/01/87 1988
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Country Cooking Virgin / Great Winds 01/01/87 1988
Tom Mega Backyards Of Pleasure ITM 01/01/87 1988
Jazz Warriors Out Of Many, One People Antilles 13/03/87 1987
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Johnny Lives Steeplechase 15/04/87 1987
Harry Beckett Les Jardins du Casino West Wind 01/05/87 1993
Harry Beckett – Courtney Pine Live, Vol. 2 West Wind 20/05/87 1987
Harry Beckett Bremen Concert West Wind 23/05/87 1988
John Stevens’ Fast Colour Suite For Johnny Dyani Loose Torque 05/08/88 2004
U3 Klang Jazz Goes Underground West Wind 28/08/88 1988
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Different Places - Different Bananas Olufsen Records 08/01/88 1989
Various Bandes Originales Du Journal De Spirou Nato 01/01/89 1989
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath - Archie Shepp En Concert A Banlieues Bleues 52e Rue Est 18/03/89 1989
Anglo Italian Quartet Put It Right Mr. Smoothie Spalsc(h) 12/02/90 1991
Harry Beckett & Pierre Dørge Echoes Of... Olufsen Records 01/05/90 1990
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Live In Chicago Olufsen Records 06/07/90 1991
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart Rising Above Bedlam Oval 01/01/91 1991
Vic Reeves I Will Cure You Island 01/01/91 1991
Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra Featuring David Murray The Jazzpar Prize Enja 16/03/91 1992
David Murray & Pierre Dorges New Jungle Orchestra (Take 1 of track from The Jazzpar Prize) Jazzpar – All Winners 1990 – 2004 Jazzkontakten 16/03/91 2005
Harry Beckett's Flugelhorn 4 + 3 All Four One Spotlite 25/03/91 1991
Various Jazz Sampler CD (The Shadowy Light) Spotlite 25/03/91 1997
Joachim Kuhn Sometime Ago Newedition 09/04/91 2005
Harry Beckett Passion and Possession ITM 23/04/91 1991
Beckett – Levallet – Marsh Images of Clarity Evidence 01/01/92 1992
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Karawane Olufsen Records 01/01/92 1992
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra (one track from Karawane) All That Jazz From Denmark 1993 DanDisc 01/01/92 1993
The Dedication Orchestra Spirits Rejoice Ogun 02/01/92 1992
Various Moon of Roses ITM 26/09/93 1995
Annie Whitehead and Rude (one track) Takin’ Off - Jazz From Britain In The Nineties Jazz on CD Late 1993 1994
Annie Whitehead Quartet This Is … Rude Jazzprint 01/01/94 1994
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart Take Me To God Island 01/01/94 1994
Annie Whitehead’s Rude (one track) One Night Stands Blow The Fuse Records 01/01/94  
The Dedication Orchestra Ixesha (Time) Ogun 03/01/94 1994
2 Badcard Hustling Ability On-U Sound 01/01/95 1995
Anglo Italian Quartet Twice Upon A Time Splasc(h) 07/05/95 1995
Harry Beckett Compared 2 What? Basic 01/01/95 1996
Gail Thompson Jazz Africa Enja 01/01/96 1996
Bill Wells Octet Live ‘96 CDR 01/07/96  
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart The Celtic Poets 30Hz 01/01/97 1997
Jah Wobble Umbra Sumus 30Hz 01/01/97 1998
The Pendelbury Dream Team Fine And Mellow Pendlebury 20/04/97 1997
Various BritJazz 13 Contemporary Jazz Classics (The Shadowy Light) Music Collection INternational ? 1997 1997
Jah Wobble Presents Zi Lan Liao The Five Tone Dragon 30Hz 01/01/98 1998
Orchestre National De Jazz / Didier Levallet ONJ Express Evidence 27/03/98 1998
Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart Full Moon Over The Shopping Mall 30Hz 01/01/99 1999
Harry Beckett Tribute to Charles Mingus Westway 16/01/99 2000
Harry Beckett Before and After Spotlite 25/02/99 2001
Orchestre National De Jazz / Didier Levallet Sequences Evidence 11/02/99 1999
Various Soupsongs Live – The Music Of Robert Wyatt Jazzprint 10/10/99 2002
Orchestre National De Jazz / Didier Levallet Deep Feelings Evidence 01/03/00 2000
Ramon Lopez Duets 2 Rahsaan Roland Kirk Leo Records 17/07/00  
London Improvisers Orchestra The Hearing Continues… Emanem 04/09/00 2001
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath The Memorial Concert ITM 01/01/01 2001
Temple Of Sound & Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali People's Colony No I Real World Records 01/01/01 2001
London Improvisers Orchestra Freedom Of The City 2001 – Large Groups Emanem 06/05/01 2002
Jah Wobble Fly 30Hz 01/01/02 2002
London Improvisers Orchestra Freedom Of The City 2002 Emanem 05/05/02 2003
Paul Hazel The Unexpected Flashlight 28/05/02 2002
Jah Wobble and Deep Space Five Five Beat 30Hz 01/01/03 2003
Carol Grimes Mother Irregular 01/01/03 2003
Adrian Sherwood Never Trust A Hippy Real World Records 24/02/03 2003
London Improvisers Orchestra London Responses, Reproduction & Reality: Freedom Of The City 2003-4 Emanem 04/05/03 2005
London Improvisers Orchestra Improvisations For George Riste psi 06/07/03 2008
Jürgen Wuchner Group Feat. Harry Beckett Jürgen Wuchner Group Feat. Harry Beckett West Wind 15/12/03 2004
Jah Wobble Elevator Music Volume 1A 30Hz 01/01/04 2004
On-U Sound On-U Sound Live On Warsaw 2004 Not On Label 24/01/04 2004
Jah Wobble Mu Trojan 01/01/05 2005
Junior Delgado The Ark Of The Covenant (12”) Incredible Music 01/06/05 2005
The Wrong Object & Guests Live 2005 CDR 27/10/05 2005
The Wrong Object Meets Harry Beckett Another Time In Belgium CDR 27/10/05 2005
Graham Collier Directing 14 Jackson Pollocks Jazz Continuum 01/11/04 2009
George Haslam, Richard Leigh Harris, Stefano Pastor, Harry Beckett, Steve Kershaw Holywell Session: Live In Oxford Slam Productions 17/09/06 2007
The Wrong Object Platform One Jazzprint 01/01/07 2007
London Improvisers Orchestra / Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Separately & Together Emanem 06/05/07 2008
Harry Beckett The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett On-U Sound 01/01/08 2008
Jah Wobble Car Ad Music 30Hz 01/01/09 2009
Duduvudu The Gospel According to Dudu Pukwana Edgetone 01/01/10 2014
Harry Beckett Maxine (Compilation 1987-1995) ITM 1987 – 1995 2011

 

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