Tenors Anyone?

Tenors Anyone? Artist: Harry Allen
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 705446300423
EAN: 0705446300423
ASIN: B000778FIA


Release Date: 2004-10-05

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Tracks:

  1. It Was Just One Of Those Things
  2. Blue And Sentimental
  3. Flying Home
  4. My Favorite Things
  5. Lester Leaps In
  6. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
  7. America, The Beautiful
  8. The Peacocks
  9. Tea For Two
  10. If I'm Lucky
  11. Cool Man Chu
  12. Four Brothers

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Another great Harry Allen CD.......2006-05-09


Harry Allen has recorded so many great albums it just seems natural to add another one to the list. This one was cut in November 1996 and features, along with Harry, John Pizzarelli (g) Ray Kennedy (p) and Martin Pizzarelli (b). There are highlights galore on the CD. JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS starts off with Harry playing the verse slowly, then going into medium tempo for the chorus. It's a solid performance. LESTER LEAPS IN, TEA FOR TWO, and FOUR BROTHERS are all up-tempo barn burners, and Harry eats up the changes like a tornado in a lumber yard. On two tracks, MY FAVORITE THINGS, with it's sweeping 6/8 waltz tempo, and THE PEACOCKS, he sounds like the spitting image of Stan Getz, more so than I've ever heard him before (he's usually closer in sound to another Brother, Zoot Sims). They are both beautiful, lyrical cuts. Harry's own tune COOL MAN CHU is a tribute to Chu Berry, another bold-sounding tenorman from the 1930s. Ray Kennedy is a fine pianist and plays especially well on FLYING HOME. Harry and John P. play very well together, as usual. This is an excellent CD, one of Harry's best. But that's not saying much since all his albums, just about, are his best. Definitely worth checking out.

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