Harry Allen (musician)
Harry Allen ( born October 12, 1966 in Washington, DC) is an American jazz saxophonist (tenor ) of mainstream jazz.
Harry Allen's father was a big band drummer; he grew up in Los Angeles and at Burrillville, Rhode Iceland and went professional at 16 years. He studied at Rutgers University, where in 1988 he earned his bachelor's degree. He then settled in New York where he is currently in a quartet with guitarist Joe Cohn plays ( with Joel Forbes on bass, Chuck Riggs on drums ). In addition, he played among others with the guitarist John Pizzarelli, whose father Bucky Pizzarelli, saxophonist Scott Hamilton, pianist Keith Ingham and John Coli Anni, Jeff Hamilton, Warren Vache and George Wein. He also played with jazz greats such as Flip Phillips, Sweets Edison, Ruby Braff, Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Frank Wess, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Kenny Burrell, Rosemary Clooney, Gus Johnson, Terry Gibbs. He regularly tours outside the U.S. in Europe and Japan.
Three of his more than 30 CDs won the Gold Disc Award of the Japanese Swing Journal. Furthermore, he also took on, inter alia, with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, George Mraz, Tommy Flanagan, Jake Hanna.
He's in the movie "Out of Towners " ( Sleepless in New York) from 1999 ( with Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn ) to hear the soundtrack to Johnny Pizzarelli Trio ( "That old black magic" ) and can be seen in a cameo.