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Uptown Lowdown: A Salute to the Big Apple

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Released: 2001
Track listing: Harlem medley (Echoes of Harlem / Drop Me Off in Harlem, Jungle Nights in Harlem, Boys from Harlem, Sugar Hill Penthouse, Blue Belles of Harlem, Harlem Speaks); Chinatown; Rose of Washington Square / Broadway Rose; Slumming on Park Avenue; 42nd Street; Scrapple from the Apple; Nostalgia in Times Square; Grand Central; 52nd Street Theme; Take the

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Nagel Heyer All-Stars: Uptown Lowdown: A Salute to the Big Apple

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2001

This earnest homage to New York City, recorded in concert during the city’s 1999 JVC Jazz Festival, opens charmingly with half a dozen great old Ellington tunes, each of which depicts musically an aspect of life in Harlem. After that, trumpeter Randy Sandke’s never–quite–a–big–band embarks on a whirlwind tour of the city with stops at Chinatown, ...