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Jazz Great Allan Harris Releases First Video From New CD
New York, NY: Award-winning jazz vocalist Allan Harris releases the first video from his new CD Open Up Your Mind (released 9/13/11 Love Productions Records). The video's song entitled “Can't Live My Life Without You" is written by Harris and is the first track on his new CD. The video was shot in black and white in ...
What Jazz Musicians Expect from Jazz Journalists and Critics. Pt 4
This is Part Four in our ongoing series of dialogues with jazz musicians where we ask the burning question: WHEN YOU READ MUSIC JOURNALISM AND MUSIC CRITICISM WHAT QUALITIES ARE YOU LOOKING FOR IN THE WRITER AND THE WRITING? Our contributors for this post are the masterful trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and one of our most deeply ...
Vocalist Allan Harris Releases New Christmas CD: “Dedicated to You… a Nat King Cole Christmas”
Jazz vocalist Allan Harris has just released a new Christmas CD, entitled Dedicated to You, Allan Harris Sings a Nat King Cole Christmas. This CD was recorded in front of a live studio audience at KUVO radio in Denver, CO and includes a rare holiday gem called “The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot." Arturo Gomez, ...
The Songs of Strayhorn
By Allan Harris
Label: Coastal
Released: 2001
Track listing: Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin; Something To Live For; My Little Brown Book; Love Came; Chelsea Bridge; Lushlife; Daydream; Pretty Girl; Passion Flower; Oo (You Make Me Tingle); Your Love Has Faded; A Flower Is A Lovesomething; Lotus Blossom; Love Has Passed Me By Again. (Total Time: 57.13).
Allan Harris: The Songs of Strayhorn
by Dave Nathan
Vocalist Allan Harris has daringly chosen to record an album dedicated solely to the compositions of Billy Strayhorn. Daring because, first, lyrics to Strayhorn tunes can be difficult to successfully put across to the listener; second, because they are mainly about unrequited unfilled love and are hardly ever cheerful, and third, several lyrics on the play ...
Allan Harris: The Songs of Strayhorn
by C. Michael Bailey
This writer finally gets Strayhorn. Tony Bennett considers Allan Harris to be his favorite vocalist. That is almost as profound as Frank Sinatra considering Tony Bennett his favorite vocalist. Mr. Bennett heaps no faint praise on Mr. Harris. Allan Harris is a very accomplished vocalist devoid of all of the barking and groaning afflicting many young ...
