Winard Harper Sextet: Make It Happen (Piadrum Records, 2006)

Glenn Astarita reviewed Make It Happen by drummer Winard Harper's sextet, recalling Harper's early work with Dexter Gordon and Betty Carter before the Harper Brothers Quintet.

He described an up-tempo, varied program of bop vamps, ballads, African percussion and organ grooves, with solos from trumpeter Josh Evans and alto saxophonist Antonio Hart among others.

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