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Harry Allen and Randy Sandke Meet the RIAS Big Band: Music of the Trumpet Kings
by Jack Bowers
If you’re feeling blue and need some music to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step, Trumpet Kings could be precisely what the doctor ordered. Happiness is the keynote from which this auspicious encounter between tenor Harry Allen, trumpeter Randy Sandke and Germany’s superb RIAS Big Band derives its creative impulse. ...
Harry Allen Quintet: A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1
by Jack Bowers
Another in a series of recent triumphs by young (27–year–old) Harry Allen whose smooth, deep–throated and swing–based tenor saxophone benefits enormously from the presence on this concert date at Hamburg, Germany’s Birdland of chameleonlike trumpeter Randy Sandke and a topnotch rhythm section — one of whose members, the superb mainstream drummer Oliver Jackson, passed away only ...
Harry Allen Quartet: Jazz im Amerika Haus, Vol. 1
by Jack Bowers
Young Harry Allen, a rising star among swing–based tenor saxophonists, is heard here in the company of a world–class rhythm section that helps him breeze confidently through a nearly eighty–minute–long concert consisting for the most part of well–known songs from the Golden Age of American popular music. Although Allen is no one’s clone, I am struck ...
Tenor Saxophonist, Harry Allen
by Gene Lees
Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer (pianist Lou Levy was present and heard it) 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, who is so good that after several takes of ...
