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Harry Allen & Dave Blenkhorn: Play the Music of Phil Morrison
by Jack Bowers
When musicians as accomplished and well-known as saxophonist Harry Allen and guitarist Dave Blenkhorn play the music of Phil Morrison, a question that naturally arises is: why? Although bassist and composer Morrison is a splendid musician in his own right, he has made his home for many years in Brunswick, Georgia, hardly a mecca for jazz, and a city in which even the finest musicians can languish in near-obscurity. But, on a swing through the south, Allen became aware of ...
read moreHarry Allen: Milo's Illinois
by David A. Orthmann
In February of 2019, Harry Allen played a gig at Shanghai Jazz, a restaurant/jazz club in Madison, New Jersey. Allen's contributions to the opening set transpired amid a splendid convergence of circumstances. His tenor sax, an acoustic piano and an upright bass were not miked or amplified in any way. Obliviously noisy diners were conspicuous by their absence. Standing less than five feet from the first row of tables, Allen didn't feel the need to huff and puff and blow ...
read moreHarry Allen: Milo's Illinois
by C. Michael Bailey
"We baked all our own bread." Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year The COVID pandemic has changed many things about daily life, creating something of a new, mutated “normal." This is no more apparent than in many of the “outside-the-box" methods that performance artists have used to subsist and ply their trade during a virtual lockdown. In particular, tenor saxophonist Harry Allen took the pandemic head on by cutting a European tour short in March ...
read moreScott Hamilton-Harry Allen Quintet: Scott Hamilton / Harry Allen: live!
by Edward Blanco
What do you get when you have two great tenor saxophonists displaying their immeasurable musical chops on the same stage? Tenor madness of course, and that's exactly what is featured when you hear Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen together on Scott Hamilton/ Harry Allen: Live! , recorded in concert in 2014 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA. While the selection of tunes numbers only six, this is no EP because each of the pieces measure from eight ...
read moreGloria Cooper: Day by Day
by Jack Bowers
I rather wish that Gloria Cooper didn’t play such nice, tasteful piano; that would make it easier to praise her singing as the highlight of this admirable debut album. Truth is, however, that it’s Cooper’s fingers and not her vocal chords that most often capture and hold one’s interest, even when used to serve the voice, which Cooper employs on all but one selection, her own bluesy “You Know What I Mean.” At the keyboard she displays excellent technique, a ...
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