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Phil Allen's Concert Jazz Band: North Greenbush Blues
by Jack Bowers
North Greenbush Blues marks the recorded debut of Indiana-born, New York State-based trombonist Phil Allen's glove-tight and remarkably robust Concert Jazz Band. The album has many pleasures, but what stands out most are Allen's impressive charts, which give the ensemble ample sustenance and reason to shine. Allen wrote six of the album's nine tunes and arranged every number including Dylan Canterbury's fast-moving Speed Trap," Chris Pasin's melodious Fragile Creature" and Gary McFarland's emotive Why Are You Blue?" ...
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