Jazz Articles about Harry Miller

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Elton Dean Quartet: On Italian Roads (Live in Milan 1979)

by Alberto Bazzurro
December 12, 2022

Registrato (su cassetta) il 25 febbraio 1979 al Teatro Cristallo di Milano, il nastro di questo concerto ha dovuto attendere la bellezza di quarantatré anni, ma alla fine, grazie alla caparbietà e alla dedizione alla causa di Riccardo Bergerone, che dell'odierno CD (in impeccabile digipack a sei facciate) condivide la responsabilità delle note di copertina con Roberto Ottaviano, è oggi disponibile per i nostri lettori e le nostre orecchie. Ed è un'autentica festa, perché, al di là ...

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Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

by Maurizio Comandini
June 20, 2022

Mike Westbrook, pianista e soprattutto direttore di orchestra, è nato il 21 marzo del 1936 a High Wycombe, 50 chilometri a nord-ovest di Londra. Dapprima tentato dalla Art School di Plymouth, si dedica poi con decisione alla musica, dalla fine degli anni cinquanta. Nel 1958 forma la sua prima band per la quale gli capita di reclutare il sedicenne John Surman, giovane talento emergente che stava terminando il suo percorso scolastico. Quattro anni dopo Westbrook si sposta a Londra per ...

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Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

by Roger Farbey
May 31, 2017

It's hardly surprising that Mike Westbrook reigned supreme in the latter quarter of the 1960s and early 70s. His big band was voted top of that category in the late-lamented Melody Maker British jazz polls for 1970 (and the two years either side of that). In the same year, his third album, Marching Song, recorded a year earlier came third in the category “LP Of The Year" (the number one album that year was John McLaughlin's seminal Extrapolation so there ...

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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 that the 15 years between 1965 and 1980--as arbitrary as that period may seem just like any other--amount to the most fertile period in ...

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Mike Osborne Trio: The Willisau Concert

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 1, 2009

Avrete sicuramente sentito parlare del Jazz Festival di Willisau, straordinaria quanto entusiasmante rassegna elvetica curata sin dalla sua nascita dal deus ex-machina Niklaus Troxler (architetto e grafico di illuminata intelligenza). Negli anni Settanta, praticamente ogni concerto o ogni iniziativa collegate a questo festival erano immediatamente riconosciute quali veri e propri eventi. Di recente, la Ogun britannica, ha ristampato su CD (aggiungendovi due bonus track tratte da un altro set, originariamente non presenti sul vinile), la registrazione del concerto tenuto il ...

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Mike Osborne Trio: All Night Long

by Sid Smith
April 20, 2008

First issued in 1976 and now making its CD debut with a sumptuous 26 extra minutes, what hits you from the opening moments of this live album is the full-blooded passion and commitment to every single note.

That isn't too much of a surprise, given that Mike Osborne was undoubtedly one of the most formidable sax players to emerge from the fertile grounds of British jazz in the late 1950s and 1960s.

A glance at many of the key groupings ...

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Harry Miller: Which Way Now

by Donald Elfman
March 16, 2007

To understand the full impact of this first-time issue of thirty year-old material, it's necessary to know what a hotbed of musical activity London was in the '60s and '70s. The city was bursting with creative energy and everything came together there--avant-garde jazz, jazz rock, international music, new music and more. One of the key figures in this surge was bassist/composer/improviser Harry Miller, an expatriate South African who joined other South Africans in London--Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Louis ...