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Winard Harper Sextet: Make It Happen

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2007

Winard Harper è un batterista che lavora da tempo con questo gruppo con cui, cosa non sempre possibile per chi segue la strada del bop più o meno “verace", cerca sempre di portare novità nella sua musica, di mischiare le carte con armonie e ritmi inusuali per il genere che fa. Gli ospiti che ha invitato, ...

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Article: Album Review

Winard Harper Sextet: Make It Happen

Read "Make It Happen" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 15, 2006

Jazz records made in one day aren't particularly unique. But looking at the large cast of players on Make It Happen, one has to be impressed at the amount of planning that went into the session--an effort that, in the hands of lesser mortals, might suck the life out of such an ambitious outing. But drummer ...

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Article: Album Review

Winard Harper Sextet: Make It Happen

Read "Make It Happen" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
August 1, 2006

Veteran drummer Winard Harper (who has played with Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Betty Carter, Ray Bryant, Abdullah Ibrahim, Pharoah Sanders, Clifford Jordan and others) gives us two albums in one on Make It Happen. The first is percussion-heavy. The opening tracks, for example, present an approach to ensemble sound that recalls Mosaic-era Jazz Messengers (carefully arranged ...

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Article: Live Review

Ecstatic Swing: Winard Harper Sextet Plays the KC Jazz Club

by Franz A. Matzner
October 14, 2004

It's been said so often that we've all come to believe it, at least a little bit. Jazz is dead. A moribund art form housed in an ivory cage, academia sponsored, and fellowship sustained. A “museum" art that despite occasional dusting serves only as a bridge to the hailer periods of yesteryear. Depending on who you're ...