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Harry Allen

Born: October 12, 1966

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

The Terry Gibbs Songbook

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2023
Track listing: Let's Go to Rio; Those Eyes, Those Lips, That Nose, That Face, That Girl; I was Loved; Now's The Time To Groove; The House That Might Have Been; Nina; I can Hardly Wait For Saturday Night; If I Were You; Play and Sing; Lonely Days; And That's Why They Call It The Blues; Say Goodbye; Stay With Me Tonight; If I Knew Then; Sweet Young Song of Love.

With Roses

Label: Triangle7
Released: 2023
Track listing: It All Catches Up with You in the End; Be the One; The Maestro; Here in Rome; That Far Away Fella; Diamonds; That's When the Fun Starts; With Roses; Takes a Moment; On My Way.

Veronica Swift: Breaking It Up, Making It New

by Mike Jurkovic
October 3, 2023

Easily on track to become the “Streisand-in-the-mosh-pit" of her restless generation, singer and urban changeling Veronica Swift likes to shake things up and keep things moving. Especially her music. Especially on an album that bears her name. Veronica Swift, her latest. “I want to inspire people to fight against the forces that curb our ...

Terry Gibbs Legacy Band: The Terry Gibbs Songbook

by Jack Bowers
July 30, 2023

Legacy Band? At age ninety-eight, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs--the last remaining member of a legendary group of jazz musicians who defined the big-band era in America and helped expand and sharpen the music's vocabulary--hasn't finished writing his own legacy, which is why this album is subtitled “The Terry Gibbs Songbook." Although best known as ...

Kait Dunton, The Pacific Jazz Group & Dee Daniels

by Joe Dimino
July 23, 2023

We kick off the 812th Episode of Neon Jazz with a gem from The Pacific Jazz Group's 2023 eponymous release. Then buckle up for a full hour of tasty new jazz from Brian McCarthy's Nonet, The Harry Allen Orchestra, The Elec Set and The 14 Jazz Orchestra. There's also a new album from Kait Dunton entitled ...

Terry Gibbs Legacy Band: The Terry Gibbs Songbook

by Edward Blanco
July 18, 2023

At age 92 years old, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs was still a musical force when he recorded 92 Years Young Jammin' at the Gibbs House (Whaling City Sound, 2017). His son, drummer Gerry Gibbs, paid homage to him with Songs from My Father (Whaling City Sound, 2021) with the Thrasher Dream Trio band. As for this recording ...

The Harry Allen Orchestra: With Roses

by Pierre Giroux
July 5, 2023

Harry Allen is a tenor saxophonist's tenor saxophonist with an elegant tone and swinging style in the manner of Scott Hamilton, Lester Young or Ben Webster. He has a well-rounded discography of over 70 releases as a leader and many others as a sideman. Over the course of his prolific career, Allen has appeared with the ...

Interview: Harry Allen

July 3, 2023

Harry Allen is often thought of as quiet and aloof. The truth is, the swinging tenor saxophonist is reserved and, based on my many email chats with him, a gentleman and great guy who tends to keep to himself. While you're certainly aware of his swinging style in the Zoot Sims-Paul Gonsalves tradition, you may not ...

Bacharach to the Future - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 11, 2023

As a young adult, Burt Bacharach used fake IDs to get into 52nd Street jazz clubs to have his mind blown by heroes of the bebop revolution like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Those early impressions could not but leave a mark in his sophisticated pop songs, seeds that would later make those very same songs ...