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Cocktails For Two

Label: Sackville
Released: 2007
Track listing: Cocktails For Two; Blues In the Closet; My Romance; I've Got the World On a String; Tangerine, Everything Happens To Me; Polka Dots & Moonbeams; In a Mellotone; Sweet & Lovely; Jumpin' At the Woodside.

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Article: Album Review

Harry Allen and Joe Temperley: Cocktails For Two

Read "Cocktails For Two" reviewed by Joel Roberts


Swing is the thing on this enormously enjoyable outing by baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen. The album features the 77-year-old Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra stalwart Temperley and the 40-year-old ex-wunderkind Allen leading a superbly sympathetic rhythm section (John Bunch on piano, Greg Cohen on bass and Jake Hanna on drums) in front ...

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Article: Interview

Harry Allen: In A Mellow Tone

Read "Harry Allen: In A Mellow Tone" reviewed by Jason Crane


Tenor saxophonist Harry Allen was born in Washington, D.C. in 1966, but he grew up in California and Rhode Island. His father was a drummer who played jazz records for Allen before kindergarten, and that early exposure set the course for his professional life. Unlike many saxophonists of his generation, Allen chose not to emulate John ...

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Article: The Jazz Session

Harry Allen: In A Mellow Tone

Read "Harry Allen: In A Mellow Tone" reviewed by Jason Crane


Turned on to jazz as a kid by his father, Harry Allen set his sights on becoming a professional. Along the way, he took a different path from the many Coltrane disciples, and that has made all the difference. You can find out more about Harry at his website. Listen Related Article ...

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Jazz For The Heart: Ballads II

Label: McMahon Jazz Medicine
Released: 2006
Track listing: I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance; Nancy (With the Laughing Face); September Song; I'm Confessin'(That I Love You); Mona Lisa; Skylark; Teach Me Tonight; Moonlight In Vermont; Night Train; If There's A Sky Above; You Go To My Head; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; In The Wee Small Hours (of the Morning); I'll Be Seeing You.

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Hey, Look Me Over

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair; Take Four; It's Been A Long, Long Time; Hey, Look Me Over; Seven Come Eleven; I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her; Travisimo; Get Out; Pick Yourself Up; Danielle.

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Article: Album Review

Harry Allen: Jazz For The Heart: Ballads II

Read "Jazz For The Heart: Ballads II" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


File Under: Concentrate of Stan Getz (ballad division)! Harry Allen is not exactly a new act. Yet, after some 26 albums under his own name and sideman dates on many others, the saxophonist is hardly a recognizable name to the general public. Too bad, since this recording is among his best and certainly most ...

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Article: Album Review

The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet: Hey, Look Me Over

Read "Hey, Look Me Over" reviewed by Marcia Hillman


As written in the liner notes, Harry Allen and Joe Cohn “fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Joined by Joel Forbes (bass) and Chuck Riggs (drums), Allen's tenor sax and Cohn's guitar play their way through several originals and a collection of standards that have not been overexposed. Both Allen and ...

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The Harry Allen - Joe Cohn Quartet: Hey, Look Me Over

Read "Hey, Look Me Over" reviewed by Edward Blanco


The Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet was recently nominated for the best small ensemble of the year by the Jazz Journalist Association for its 2006 Jazz Awards. Hey, Look Me Over offers several convincing reasons why. Playing a selection of jazz standards favoring the harmonious marriage of the tenor and guitar, Allen and Cohn fashion ten tracks ...

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Heavy Juice

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: Heavy Juice; Did You Call Her Today?; Groovin' High; If I Should Lose You; Blues Up and Down; If Dreams Come True; Warm Valley; Ow!


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