Harry Allen
BMG recording artist Harry Allen has over twenty recordings to his name. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance), the third Gold Disc Award winner, was voted second for album of the year for 1998 by Swing Journal Magazine‚s reader‚s poll.
Harry has performed at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, frequently touring the United States, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed with Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, Frank Wess, Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gus Johnson, Jeff Hamilton, Terry Gibbs, Warren Vache, and has recorded with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, Dave McKenna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Goldings, George Mraz, Jake Hanna, and Al Foster, among others.
Harry is featured on many of John Pizzarelli's recordings including the soundtrack and an on-screen cameo in the feature film The Out of Towners starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has also done a series of commercials for ESPN starring Robert Goulet.
Harry was born in Washington D.C. in 1966, and was raised in Los Angeles, CA and Burrillville, RI. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1988 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and currently resides in New York City.
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Album Review
- For George, Cole And Duke by Dan Bilawsky
- Something About Jobim by Jakob Baekgaard
- The Candy Men by Edward Blanco
- The Candy Men by Jack Bowers
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- Rebecca Kilgore with the Harry Allen Quartet at the Jazz Showcase
- Harry Allen With Rossano Sportiello At The Jazz Corner
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- Milo's Illinois by C. Michael Bailey
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October 12, 2022
Jazz Musician of the Day: Harry Allen
October 12, 2021
Jazz Musician of the Day: Harry Allen
October 12, 2020
Jazz Musician of the Day: Harry Allen
October 12, 2019
Jazz Musician of the Day: Harry Allen
January 15, 2019
October 12, 2018
Jazz Musician of the Day: Harry Allen
October 03, 2018
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"Rich and Satisfying when he's balladeering, mind blowing when he's cooking" Martin Richards, Jazz Journal
"a practitioner of such dense talent he sounds as if he invented tenor saxophone performance instead of Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Allen is the Frank Sinatra of the tenor saxophone: a master interpreter of standards" C. Michael Bailey
"...his tremendous tenor sax playing...endlessly inventive and with a flood of original ideas...his tone and execution are always superb" Eddie Cook, Jazz Journal