# CD review: Harry Allen, Mike Karn – Milo’s Illinois 2021: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2021/03/15/cd-review-harry-allen-mike-karn-milos-illinois-2021-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2021-03-15T11:59:09+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**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.” **

BMG recording artist Harry Allen has over twenty 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.

Harry has performed at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, frequently touring the
United States, Europe, and the Far East. 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.

01.Love Is Just Around The Corner
 02.Just One Of Those Things 03.A Time For Love
04.O Grande Amor 05.Tea For Two 06.Gypsy Sweetheart 07.Tenderly 08.Milo’s Illinois
09.Just Picking Out Ditties 10.The Song Is Ended 11.How Insensitive

**Harry Allen (sax)**
 **Mike Karn (double bass)**

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