Results for "Tyrone Allen"

Shades of Rainbow

By Miki Yamanaka

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: That Ain’t Betty; Early Morning; Shades of Rainbow; Uh Oh; Song for Mary Lou; Clam; Gin; Oatmeal.

Miki Yamanaka: Shades of Rainbow

by Jack Bowers
October 12, 2023

Pianist Miki Yamanaka's working trio (Tyrone Allen, bass; Jimmy Macbride, drums) is very good. Add tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, as she does on Shades of Rainbow, and the results are even better. Besides playing nimble and expressive piano, Japanese-born, New York-based Yamanaka composed and arranged every song on Rainbow, her fifth album as leader.

Jazz Returns to Seattle's Central District: Two Evenings of Black Brilliance

by Paul Rauch
November 19, 2021

There is a miracle on the corner of 12th Avenue and Jackson St. in what is now Seattle's “Little Saigon." In what was a traditional African American and Jewish community before the influx of Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian immigrants after the war in Southeast Asia in the early 1980's, this urban crossroads was the main pulse ...

Tyrone Allen II

Trusted on the bandstand, in concert halls, the studio, and the pit orchestras of Broadway, Tyrone Allen II has become one of the most sought - after bassists on the New York City scene and a generational talent on the global stage. Since 2018, his work has been recognized by The New York Times, JazzTimes, WBGO, and he was named a Rising Star Bassist in the 2025 DownBeat Critics Poll. He has performed, recorded, and toured worldwide with creative luminaries including Sullivan Fortner, Tyshawn Sorey, and Nicole Glover, and currently holds the bass chair for the 10-time Tony Award–winning Broadway production Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

New releases from Bartosz Hadala, Luke Norris and Manteca

by Bob Osborne
February 6, 2020

There are three featured albums this week... Bartosz Hadala moved from New York City to Toronto in 2010 and began writing music for his next album. In time, new compositions took shape, and Hadala started to assemble his first electric band. It had been a decades-long dream to pay tribute to his idol, Chick ...