Jazz Articles about Eddie Allen

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Schapiro 17: New Shoes: Kind of Blue at 60

by Jerome Wilson
September 7, 2020

Miles Davis' album Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) is the best-selling jazz album of all time and has been highly influential for the last 60 years. Most of its five tracks have become jazz standards and have been interpreted time and again. However it is rare to see the entire album reworked to the extent that Jon Schapiro and his big band, Schapiro 17, do here. The tracks undergo extensive retooling, expanding into big band arrangements that carry on the ...

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Schapiro 17: New Shoes: Kind of Blue at 60

by Jack Bowers
April 10, 2020

2019 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Miles Davis sextet's acclaimed album, Kind of Blue (Columbia). While the tributes didn't exactly pour in, New York-based composer / arranger Jon Schapiro took it upon himself not only to revisit that classic session but to re-orchestrate it for a large ensemble (the Schapiro 17) and flesh it out with half a dozen compositions of his own and another by pianist Roberta Piket. In keeping with the spirit of the occasion, all of ...

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Eddie Allen: Push

by Everett R. Davis
April 8, 2014

Seasoned trumpeter, composer and educator Eddie Allen's highly awaited Push is a mix of mainstream jazz with generous sprinklings of urban flavors and reggae thrown into the mix. Allen and the excellent group of musicians he assembled for this release is simply riveting, with pure jazz and catchy flowing rhythms from start to finish. Allen states that the goal of this project was simply to create some good, “fun to listen to music." The album opens with ...

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Groove's Mood: The Aggregation

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 3, 2010

Eddie Allen è un marpione, nel senso buono del termine. Suona la tromba, compone e insegna jazz. Si diverte a metter su quartetti, quintetti e una big band di 17 elementi, The Aggregation, capace di guardare allo swing più puro ("Groove's Mood"), ma anche ai riverberi latino americani. Aggregare per lui è segno di non solo di un perfetto interplay con i tantissimi musicisti che lo circondano, ma anche e soprattutto con l'ascoltatore che lui vuole, senza mezzi termini, coinvolgere ...

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The Aggregation, Under the Direction of Eddie Allen: Groove's Mood

by Edward Blanco
September 11, 2009

Trumpeter, composer, educator and band leader Eddie Allen is a very busy New York artist currently leading a quartet, quintet, a Latin/Brazilian group and the seventeen-piece big band, The Aggregation, the latter debuting with Groove's Mood. Allen which claims to have one goal: “To have the listener in a finger-snappin,' head bobbin,' toe-tappin,' feel good mood from beginning to end." With ten pieces of blues, samba, and shuffle to ballad, spiritual and R& B classics, including instrumentals as well as ...

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Music: The Universal Language

by AAJ Staff
September 6, 2008

By Eddie Allen One of the most common phrases concerning music used by musicians and non-musicians alike is “Music is the universal language." But what does that really mean to people? When asked, for the most part the non-musician might say, “You can listen to any kind of music and appreciate it." The musician might say, “You can walk into a musical situation and sit in with musicians from other countries, races or cultures." At any rate, if ...

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Salongo: Salongo

by Michael P. Gladstone
August 8, 2008

Sãlongo is a combo with a three horn front line that is dedicated to playing Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music and whose name translates loosely from a Zairian expression, “we come together to create something beautiful out of love." Although the front line players are not natives of either of these parts of the world, the rhythm section does indeed come from both Central and South America.

Sãlongo is the creation of trumpeter, composer, and arranger, Eddie Allen who ...