Harry Allen
Gene Lees writes, Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, 'My technique, Al Cohn's ideas, and Zoot's time.' The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old 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.
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Album Review
- Jazz Woman: The Reel to Real Sessions by Hrayr Attarian
- Milo's Illinois by David A. Orthmann
- Milo's Illinois by C. Michael Bailey
Bailey's Bundles
Live Review
- Harry Allen With Rossano Sportiello At The Jazz Corner
- Rebecca Kilgore with the Harry Allen Quartet at the Jazz Showcase
Big Band Report
Album Review
- The Candy Men by Jack Bowers
- The Candy Men by Edward Blanco
- Something About Jobim by Jakob Baekgaard
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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
Harry Allen'splaying is nothing less than perfect John Pizzarelli
Harry Allen is fantastic