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Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen: Heavy Juice
by Ken Franckling
This CD has been a recording waiting to happen for twenty years. Back then, highschooler Harry Allen joined Scott Hamilton on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival for a cameo performance with the George Wein-led Newport All-Stars. Allen grew up in Rhode Island, which also claims Hamilton as a native son. And Hamilton certainly was a ...
Scott Hamilton & Harry Allen: Heavy Juice
by John Kelman
Strangely enough, recordings pairing tenor players are not unusual. Sonny Rollins did it with John Coltrane on Tenor Madness ; more recently Joe Lovano with Joshua Redman on Tenor Legacy ; even Chris Potter did it with Joe Lovano on a few tracks on Vertigo. Why this particular variation of saxophone is more conducive to teaming ...
Live in London
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Introduction; The Squirrel; When Your Love Has Gone; When I Fall In Love; When I Fall In Love;
Licks; Easter Parade; When You Wish Upon A Star; The Good And I.
The Scott Hamilton Quartet: Live in London
by C. Michael Bailey
Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen are two solid and melodic tenor saxophone players who do not get near the press that they deserve. They each possess a sure lyricism, an efficient and conservative approach to solos. Their respective tones are seasoned with equal parts Lester Young, Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, and Stan Getz. They are equally ...
Jazz Signatures
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: Raincheck, In Your Own Sweet Way, Jitterbug Waltz, If You Could See Me Now, Move, Byas A Drink, You Left Me All Alone, When Lights Are Low, Angel Face, John
Scott Hamilton: Jazz Signatures
by AAJ Staff
Continuing in his quarter-century tenure with Concord Records, Scott Hamilton is still finding fresh concepts for presenting his pre-bop tenor sax sound that went against the grain of the fusion groups when he first started recording. Taking his cue from masters like Ben Webster or Don Byas, rather than Wayne Shorter, Hamilton continued their pioneering tradition ...
Blues, Bop & Ballads
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: I Mean You; Blue Harlem; Rhythm Riff #127; Skylark; Wabash; Fish Market; Answer Me (My Love); Stuffy; Smile; Good Bait.Collective
Scott Hamilton: Blues, Bop & Ballads
by Jim Santella
Adopting a smooth Ben Webster approach to the tenor saxophone in this era of fire and screaming creativity, Scott Hamilton has for over twenty years satisfied our yen for beauty of tone without sacrificing meaningful dialogue. Consider some of the pap elevator music that oozes from the radio airwaves these days and just how much of ...
Scott Hamilton: Blues, Bop & Ballads
by Ed Kopp
It's been 22 years since a sax prodigy named Scott Hamilton set the jazz world on its ear simply by favoring pure swing over post-bop and fusion. Now in his mid-forties, the talented tenor saxman remains true to his Muse. Blues, Bop and Ballads delivers everything its title promises, and stylishly.This album swings with ...
