Results for "Carl Allen"

Kinds of Love

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Silk; Kinds of Love; In Time Like Air; The Golden Triangle; Evermore; Passing Jupiter; Life Does Not Wait (A Vida Não Espera); Swoop; Blessings in a Year of Exile.

In the Beginning

By Arkadia Jazz All-Stars

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: New Vista, Beauty and the Beast, Caravan, Naima, Jazz Influence, Convite (Invitation), Up Jumped Spring, Tiny Capers, Yardbird Suite, Smashing Thirds, Out of Nowhere

Up Jumped Benny

By Benny Golson

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Up Jumped Spring; Stablemates; Talk Intro; Tiny Capers; Talk Intro; I Remember Clifford; For Old Time’s Sake; Whisper Not; Gypsy Jingle Jangle.

Renee Rosnes: Kinds of Love

by C. Andrew Hovan
December 11, 2021

When Canadian pianist Renee Rosnes decided to make her mark in the jazz world, she wasted no time, making an auspicious start as a member of Joe Henderson's all-female quartet in 1986. Fast forward thirty-five years and her career continues to advance on an upward trajectory. Her third offering for Smoke Sessions, Kinds of Love, is ...

Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Live at the Village Vanguard

by Mike Jurkovic
December 5, 2021

You may feel a whole lot better about things after checking out Live at the Village Vanguard. Now, without argument or scholarly discourse, that can be said for any of the time honored performances captured under that heady title, but here it's Christian McBride and Inside Straight and seriously, this one has fun written all over ...

Renee Rosnes: Kinds of Love

by Mike Jurkovic
September 22, 2021

Still riding high on the energy generated by her superwoman jazz group Artemis—Anat Cohen, Melissa Aldana, Ingrid Jensen, Noriko Ueda and Allison Miller— pianist Renee Rosnes, undaunted by the string of world crises but just as ruminative as the rest of us, elicits some of the most emotive and enthralling music of her career on Kinds ...

Frank Kimbrough: From Now to Forever—A Remembrance

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 8, 2021

On December 30, 2020, pianist Frank Kimbrough passed away at the age of 64. True to form, 2020 wreaked havoc until the end. The cause of death was not Covid-19, but the shock at the untimely loss of a revered artist was not any less powerful. Frank Kimbrough had the rare gift of touching ...

Frank Kimbrough - The Friends' Mixtape Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 8, 2021

To celebrate the late Frank Kimbrough, whose untimely passing on December 30, 2020 added another unnecessary layer of grief on a challenging year, we have reached out to some of his long time friends and collaborators asking them to share a track that in their hearts immediately conjured up memories of Frank. It could be one ...

Ale

April 9, 2020

Album: My Other Voice
By Mark Sherman
Label: Miles High Records
Released: 2019
Duration: 05:25

Carl Allen

Born: April 25, 1961

The pursuit of knowledge, experience, and ever-present swing is a recurring theme in the life of drummer/composer and Milwaukee native Carl Allen. It's a theme that began to take shape when, as a teenager, he performed with such greats as Sonny Stitt and James Moody and it's a theme to which he held fast as his musical quest took him to The University of Wisconsin - Green Bay (1979-81) and New Jersey's William Patterson College (1981-83). While at William Patterson, he pursued his life-long dream — the drum chair in trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's band. He got the position in 1982 and remained with Hubbard for eight years - also serving as the trumpeter's musical director and road manager. Allen says, "my ultimate goal is to get to a level like Art Blakey, Art Taylor, Elvin Jones and Billy Higgins and these cats who, every time they sit down behind a set of drums it's swinging