Harry Allen

“Two forward-thinking gentlemen, saxophonist Harry Allen and guitarist Joe Cohn, have brought forth the idea that if classic musicals, such Guys and Dolls and South Pacific, can be revived on Broadway, why can't we also revive the whole idea of the jazz-show album? And, in fact, that's exactly what Messrs. Allen and Cohn have done, starting with their highly acclaimed jazz packages of the scores to Guys and Dolls (ARCD 19354) and South Pacific (ARCD 19380).. ..... The Sound of Music, by the Harry Allen Quintet is, I think, the finest in his hopefully-ongoing series of jazz-Broadway hybrids.” Will Friedwald writes about jazz for The Wall Street Journal

PERSONNEL:

HARRY ALLEN, tenor sax, arrangements, all tenor parts on "Something Good"
ROSSANO SPORTIELLO, piano
JOE COHN, guitar
JOEL FORBES, bass
CHUCK RIGGS, drums
REBECCA KILGORE, vocals
EDDIE ERICKSON, vocals

New York, October 22-23, 2010

TRACKS:

01. How Can Love Survive?
02. Maria
03. Do Re Mi
04. Something Good
05. No Way to Stop It
06. Climb Ev'ry Mountain
07. Sixteen Going On Seventeen
08. My Favorite Things
09. The Lonely Goatherd
10. The Sound of Music
11. I Have Confidence
12. An Ordinary Couple
13. So Long, Farewell
14. Edelweiss