Indo-jazz fusion to savour: the very rare Hum Dono recorded in 1969 has always been hard to find and hasn’t been on CD before. 

The vinyl goes for ridiculous amounts of money, so the CD issue at a tenner or so is affordable.

During the year of Hum Dono’s release the title track featured on an LP compilation called Jazz Explosion: A Panorama of Contemporary British Jazz which includes other fascinating period flavour from the Rendell/Carr quintet, Mike Taylor, Stan Tracey big brass and quartet, William Russo, Guy Warren of Ghana, and the Harriott/Mayer double quintet, but remains vinyl-only at stiff prices too for a compilation if you can find it, but a bargain compared to the silly money of Hum Dono.

The album in question itself, freeform alto saxophone innovator Joe Harriott here crucially with guitarist Amancio D’Silva, blending Indian, Caribbean and Western sounds to mesmerisingly intoxicating effect, joined by Ian Carr on flugelhorn, drummer Bryan Spring, bassist Dave Green, and singer Norma Winstone, has made it to CD newly remastered with an officially licensed version just put out by Vocalion. One to snap up, surely. Check it out on Spotify.