Harry Allen Countdown
It's an exciting time for Harry Allen fans. We're less than two weeks away from the release of Harry's “Jazz for the Heart” CD, the “Two Tenors & a Piano Player” concert, where Harry's quartet will team up with John Bunch and Carmen Leggio, and the Jazz Masters Class, where Harry will give personal saxophone instruction.
For some background on the new release, check out our press release on MarketWire.
For McMahon Jazz Medicine readers, we will be providing some exclusive video footage of Harry and the band rehearsing and recording in the studio. Check back over the next few days.
posted by Noah Boddie at 3/27/2006 04:12:00 PM
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Some time ago, I bought a book that changed my musical life. “Intimate Nights” came out during the mid-80s, when melodic jazz, cabaret and show music, the true sound of Manhattan, seemed under siege from the kind of rock music that only a sociologist could love. (And this was Eminem was in grade school or work release or whatever.) This book proved that adult music was anything but boring. It’s thrilling to hear saxophonist Joe Lovano play on the same Village Vanguard bandstand where Judy Holliday, Betty Comden and Adolph Green made post-war bohemians laugh. Joe’s Pub, Jazz Standard/Blue Smoke, Birdland, the new Lincoln Center spaces are where New York welcomes America and America welcomes the world best.
Remember the PBS slogan “If We Don’t Do It, Who Will?” This memorable phrase had its critics, even among those who supported public broadcasting and high art. But in an era when movies and the pop life seem to have embraced the values of the suicide bomber, McMahon Jazz Medicine offers an adult experience that isn’t nostalgia or snobbery. Love of music and love of living means there’s life after 5:30, fellowship after the conference. Good for companies that have luxury boxes for clients at the Stadium or the Garden, but isn’t engagement--life outside the glass--the real luxury?
The jam session/master class planned for April is light years ahead of the grey-flannel networking that ended with, “I’ll have your girl call my girl.” (Before your girl and my girl took up tae kwon do.) Normally, I’m suspicious of inspired ideas that make people happy, being a copy editor and all, but I’ll cut Mcmahon Jazz Medicine some slack.
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