Full Steam Ahead (album)

Full Steam Ahead is an album by South African double bassist and composer Harry Miller and his band Isipingo.

On the album, which features several different lineups of the band, Miller is joined by saxophonist Mike Osborne, trumpeters Mark Charig and Mongezi Feza, trombonists Nick Evans, Malcolm Griffiths, and Paul Neiman, pianists Frank Roberts, Keith Tippett, and Stan Tracey, and drummer Louis Moholo.

Miller is a big-hearted composer; he writes inviting melodies over dancing rhythms that the band can use, vary, or overturn as they see fit.

"[5] Nate Dorward of Paris Transatlantic remarked: "it's wonderful to have another CD's worth of music from this group, especially since several tracks offer glimpses of previously undocumented permutations of the sextet's lineup."

Key to the Isipingo sound are Louis Moholo's rhythmic ebullience and a balance of earthiness and smoothness across the brass and reeds.