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Harry Miller's Isipingo

Harry Miller's Isipingo: Full Steam Ahead

by Nic Jones
April 19, 2009

Such is the nature of the reviewing game that some reviews just flow out, taking the perennial word count with it. This is usually because the force of life running through the music under discussion is vibrant enough to make it so, and Full Steam Ahead is a case in point. If the notion ...

Which Way Now

By Harry Miller's Isipingo

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Family Affair; Children at Play; Eli's Song; Which Way Now.

Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now

by Jerry D'Souza
October 29, 2006

Cuneiform has unearthed another gem from the '70s British jazz scene in Which Way Now. Bassist Harry Miller was one of the staples of that era, and on this performance from November of 1975, he shows just why. The band here was the original lineup of Isipingo, and while there is a structure to the music, ...

Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 20, 2006

Isipingo è stato certamente uno dei gruppi inglesi degli anni settanta meno documentato su disco. Un progetto molto interessante, certamente figlio dei gruppi misti che si crearono sin dalla metà degli anni sessanta a Londra con il coinvolgimento di musicisti locali e musicisti provenienti dal Sudafrica. L'esempio più noto è rappresentato dalla 'Brotherhood of Breath' di ...

Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now

by John Kelman
August 12, 2006

The remarkably large and intersecting jazz and progressive rock community of late-'60s and early-'70s England is enough to give any discographer nightmares. But within that group a few key players came together more often than most, including a contingent which had escaped South Africa's apartheid. Harry Miller was one such artist, an in-demand bassist who appeared ...

Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now

by Chris May
July 16, 2006

South African emigre Harry Miller was at the heart of a freewheeling, and in pockets Rabelaisian, circle of improvisers who shot through London like meteors in the 1970s and lit up everything around them. They burned bright and fast, and several of the key members, particularly the several South Africans among them, died tragically young. Miller ...

Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now

by Karl A.D. Evangelista
June 30, 2006

Harry Miller remains one of the unsung heroes of modern improvised music. A white, Jewish South African expatriate, Miller played a pivotal role on the '70s European jazz scene, co-founding the Ogun label and promoting the documentation and popularization of multicultural, African-inflected improvisation. He was also, however, a brilliant, powerful bassist who bedded a number of ...