Jazz Articles about Will Harris

About Will Harris

Album Review

The Jazz Defenders: Memory In Motion

Read "Memory In Motion" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
April 7, 2024

If there is one quality of first generation NYC hard bop which no twenty-first century band has succeeded in capturing it is the snarling half-valve badness which coursed through Lee Morgan's music. The absence is not surprising, for Morgan's vibe was a real-time product of the demi-monde in which he moved and that world is gone forever. Hard bop was not all about badness, however. Of equal weight towards the other end of the spectrum were Horace ...

Album Review

Matt Anderson: Live at Leeds Jazz Festival

Read "Live at Leeds Jazz Festival" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
March 18, 2024

To appreciate the synergy and spirit of a band it often pays to hear them play live. The quality of their playing and their abilities to interact are laid bare. Releasing their first live recording, the Matt Anderson Quartet can do so confidently having spent nearly a decade touring and recording together. Live at Leeds Jazz Festival was made at HEART in Headingly as part of the 2023 Leeds Jazz Festival. It features two tracks from the band's ...

Album Review

Matt Anderson Quartet: The Town and the City

Read "The Town and the City" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 16, 2022

Saxophonist Matt Anderson grew up on the North Yorkshire Moors, in the north of England, and is now based in London where he teaches junior jazz ensembles at the Royal Academy of Music. The Town and the City is his third album—the title a nod to his years in the small towns and villages of the Moors, and his later move to the capital— and the second to feature his quartet of pianist Alberto Palau, bassist Will Harris and drummer ...