Styles: Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:49
Size: 132,4 MB
Art: Front
(4:13) 1. Wave
(5:40) 2. So Many Stars
(4:54) 3. The Telephone Song
(4:57) 4. O Grande Amor
(4:04) 5. I Can See Forever
(4:30) 6. Manha Do Carnaval (Orfeu Negro)
(5:54) 7. Ela E Carioca
(4:52) 8. A Time For Love
(4:54) 9. Be Careful, It's My Heart
(5:08) 10. A Felicidade
(5:49) 11. And I Love Her
(2:48) 12. The Summer Knows
I Can See Forever
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:49
Size: 132,4 MB
Art: Front
(4:13) 1. Wave
(5:40) 2. So Many Stars
(4:54) 3. The Telephone Song
(4:57) 4. O Grande Amor
(4:04) 5. I Can See Forever
(4:30) 6. Manha Do Carnaval (Orfeu Negro)
(5:54) 7. Ela E Carioca
(4:52) 8. A Time For Love
(4:54) 9. Be Careful, It's My Heart
(5:08) 10. A Felicidade
(5:49) 11. And I Love Her
(2:48) 12. The Summer Knows
"Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer 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." -Gene Lees
Harry Allen operates in a different tradition than the post-bop avant-garde which has dominated much of the jazz scene since the 60's. While quick to acknowledge the influence of John Coltrane, he draws instead on the tonal concepts associated with the likes of Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Ben Webster and Stan Getz. Harry has become one of the most exciting and talented members of a younger generation of players seeking to return a lost sense of swing to the jazz world. The important thing in music says Harry "is beauty in tone, and a swinging feel." "There is a special power in the ability to work within the realms of swing and still create something entirely interesting and new." Allen's own style is true to his words. He has recorded upwards of twenty CDs and performed at Jazz festivals and clubs worldwide. In addition he has worked with some of the finest musicians in jazz including Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Rosemary Clooney, Scott Hamilton, Kenny Burrell, Johnny Mandel and Flip Phillips. Most recently Harry played opposite Tony Bennett and Sheryl Crow on Bennett's Playin' With My Friends, a collection of duets just released on Columbia Records.. Harry Allen has always known that he was going to be a musician. Born in Washington D.C. on October 12 1966, Harry grew up in Los Angeles and later Rhode Island, where from an early age he was exposed to the music that would become his great passion. His father, Maurice, had been a drummer during the big band era, and Harry grew up listening to his jazz records, sometimes playing along on a toy saxophone. A more personal influence came in the form of his father's friends, Johnny "Here's That Rainy Day" Burke, and Paul Gonslaves, the great tenor saxophonist from Duke Ellington's orchestra.
When Harry was seven years old, a traveling accordion salesman came to the door offering lessons to Allen's older sister. Although little Harry was beside himself with excitement at the chance to learn an instrument, the teacher thought he was too young and didn't want to take him on as a student. Harry's father however, sensing how excited his son was, made the salesman promise to teach both children and for the first time Harry was allowed to learn music. By the time he was 11 he started playing the clarinet at his father's advice and the next year switched, this time for good, to the saxophone.
In 1998, Harry was graduated with honors from Rutgers University with a degree in music. There he studied under a faculty which included piano legend Kenny Barron. It was Barron in fact who hired the twenty year old Harry for the saxophonist's first recording date. At Rutgers Harry first made contact with John Pizzarelli, who along with father Bucky has become one of his biggest supporters. Bucky Pizzarelli gave Harry his first professional gig in New York City substituting for the great Zoot Sims. The guitarist also introduced Harry to the legendary Benny Goodman with whom he later played.
Harry and John Pizzarelli have played together on Pizzarelli's After Hours and Harry's Harry Allen Meets the John Pizzarelli Trio, Allen's first disc as a leader on the BMG label. The record was released through BMG/Japan and marked the beginning of Allen's long tenure with the label and producer Ikuyoshi Hirakawa.
Harry Allen's newest recording is the Brazilian tinged “I Can See Forever”. Joined by an all-star band featuring guitarists Guilherme Monteiro and Jay Berliner, drummer Grady Tate and the legendary Ron Carter on bass, Harry applies his sultry lyricism to the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa and Dori Caymmi. Elsewhere, Harry adds a Latin flavor to Irving Berlin's "Careful It's My Heart" and the Beatles' "And I Love Her." The result is an invigorating collection fueled by Allen's breathy tone and unfailing sense of style and swing. http://www.lentriola.com/allen.htm
Harry Allen operates in a different tradition than the post-bop avant-garde which has dominated much of the jazz scene since the 60's. While quick to acknowledge the influence of John Coltrane, he draws instead on the tonal concepts associated with the likes of Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Ben Webster and Stan Getz. Harry has become one of the most exciting and talented members of a younger generation of players seeking to return a lost sense of swing to the jazz world. The important thing in music says Harry "is beauty in tone, and a swinging feel." "There is a special power in the ability to work within the realms of swing and still create something entirely interesting and new." Allen's own style is true to his words. He has recorded upwards of twenty CDs and performed at Jazz festivals and clubs worldwide. In addition he has worked with some of the finest musicians in jazz including Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Rosemary Clooney, Scott Hamilton, Kenny Burrell, Johnny Mandel and Flip Phillips. Most recently Harry played opposite Tony Bennett and Sheryl Crow on Bennett's Playin' With My Friends, a collection of duets just released on Columbia Records.. Harry Allen has always known that he was going to be a musician. Born in Washington D.C. on October 12 1966, Harry grew up in Los Angeles and later Rhode Island, where from an early age he was exposed to the music that would become his great passion. His father, Maurice, had been a drummer during the big band era, and Harry grew up listening to his jazz records, sometimes playing along on a toy saxophone. A more personal influence came in the form of his father's friends, Johnny "Here's That Rainy Day" Burke, and Paul Gonslaves, the great tenor saxophonist from Duke Ellington's orchestra.
When Harry was seven years old, a traveling accordion salesman came to the door offering lessons to Allen's older sister. Although little Harry was beside himself with excitement at the chance to learn an instrument, the teacher thought he was too young and didn't want to take him on as a student. Harry's father however, sensing how excited his son was, made the salesman promise to teach both children and for the first time Harry was allowed to learn music. By the time he was 11 he started playing the clarinet at his father's advice and the next year switched, this time for good, to the saxophone.
In 1998, Harry was graduated with honors from Rutgers University with a degree in music. There he studied under a faculty which included piano legend Kenny Barron. It was Barron in fact who hired the twenty year old Harry for the saxophonist's first recording date. At Rutgers Harry first made contact with John Pizzarelli, who along with father Bucky has become one of his biggest supporters. Bucky Pizzarelli gave Harry his first professional gig in New York City substituting for the great Zoot Sims. The guitarist also introduced Harry to the legendary Benny Goodman with whom he later played.
Harry and John Pizzarelli have played together on Pizzarelli's After Hours and Harry's Harry Allen Meets the John Pizzarelli Trio, Allen's first disc as a leader on the BMG label. The record was released through BMG/Japan and marked the beginning of Allen's long tenure with the label and producer Ikuyoshi Hirakawa.
Harry Allen's newest recording is the Brazilian tinged “I Can See Forever”. Joined by an all-star band featuring guitarists Guilherme Monteiro and Jay Berliner, drummer Grady Tate and the legendary Ron Carter on bass, Harry applies his sultry lyricism to the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa and Dori Caymmi. Elsewhere, Harry adds a Latin flavor to Irving Berlin's "Careful It's My Heart" and the Beatles' "And I Love Her." The result is an invigorating collection fueled by Allen's breathy tone and unfailing sense of style and swing. http://www.lentriola.com/allen.htm
I Can See Forever
Any chance of a revival for this one? Thank you so much!
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Thanks so much! You always come through!
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