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| Harry Allen’s Monday Night Jazz at Feinstein's  Feinstein's at Loews Regency Hotel, The Statesmen of Jazz and Arbors Records are pleased to announce that Harry Allen's Monday Night Jazz has been extended for another year on the first Monday of every month in 2012 (except as noted). May 7:, Randy Sandke, Peter Washington, Grant Stewart, Eric Reed, Joel Forbes, Dennis Mackrell, June 10: Frank Wess, Joe Wilder, Jon-Erik Kellso, Joe Temperley and the Harry Allen Quartet September 10:: Luigi Grasso and Jesse Davis (two great young players) with the Harry Allen Quartet October 8: An evening of song with Lynn Roberts, Rebecca Kilgore, Nicki Parrott, Mike Renzi with Harry Allen, Joel Forbes and Chuck Riggs. November 5: Bucky Pizzarelli, Ken Peplowski, John and Bill Allred with Rossano Sportiello, Joel Forbes, Chuck Riggs December 2 (Sunday): George Wein and the Newport All Stars: Personnel TBAAbout Harry Allen: Gene Lees writes, "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." Swing Bros. recording artist Harry Allen has over thirty recordings to his name. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance), the third Gold Disc Award winner, was voted second for album of the year for 1998 by Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll. The Harry Allen - Joe Cohn Quartet won the New York Nightlife Award for Outstanding Jazz Combo Performance of 2006 and was nominated for Best Jazz Combo by the Jazz Journalists Association for the same year. Harry has performed at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, frequently touring the United States, Europe and Asia. He has performed with Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, Frank Wess, Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gus Johnson, Jeff Hamilton, Terry Gibbs, Warren Vache, and has recorded with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, Dave McKenna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Goldings, George Mraz, Jake Hanna, and Al Foster, among others. Harry is featured on many of John Pizzarelli's recordings including the soundtrack and an on-screen cameo in the feature film The Out of Towners starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has also done a series of commercials for ESPN starring Robert Goulet. Harry was born in Washington D.C. in 1966, and was raised in Los Angeles, CA and Burrillville, RI. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1988 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and currently resides in New York City. About Arbors Records Arbors Records was founded by Rachel and Mat Domber in 1989 to record and preserve the classic styles of jazz. write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Jazz News :: home page |