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Various: The International Allstars Play Benny Goodman, Volume Two

Read "The International Allstars Play Benny Goodman, Volume Two" reviewed by Dave Nathan


This is the other shoe dropping on the International Allstars tribute to Benny Goodman and the various small groups he headed. This album comes from the same live concert in Hamburg that produced Volume 1 released in 2000. Obviously there was enough for two CDs and why they weren't packaged as a 2 CD set is puzzling. But no one can point the finger at Nagel Heyer claiming that they were trying to get 2 CDs where one would suffice. ...

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Harry Allen: Love Songs Live!

Read "Love Songs Live!" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Two words are about all that are needed to sum up the singular talents of swing–based tenor saxophonist Harry Allen — smooth and consistent, each of which aspect of his charismatic persona is abundantly present on this compilation of love songs recorded in concert between 1993 and ’96. I’m not fully conversant with Allen’s influences but Stan Getz had to be one of them (listen, for example, to Jobim’s “Once I Loved”). Others, he says, include Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins ...

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Harry Allen: Love Songs Live!

Read "Love Songs Live!" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Nagel Heyer has put together an album of romantic love songs performed by the Coleman Hawkins influenced, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims like tenor horn of Harry Allen. All of the tracks were compiled from previously released recordings of live concerts, mostly in Hamburg where Allen was on the stage with a variety of first rate jazz musicians. Given that virtually every song is played in that slow, ballad tempo, this album could just as well have been titled Music for ...

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Oliver Jackson: The Last Great Concert

Read "The Last Great Concert" reviewed by Dave Nathan


The late Oliver Jackson had one foot in each of the major jazz camps, bop and swing. Out of Detroit, he performed with some of the first rate boppers from that city like Tommy Flanagan and Paul Chambers as well as working with Eddie Locke and Yusef Lateef. But he also played with some of the great swingsters and traditional jazzers like Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Charlie Shavers and Buck Clayton.

This 1993 live concert was Jackson's last before his ...

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Danny Moss/Roy Williams Quintet: Steamers!

Read "Steamers!" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Britisher Danny Moss and long time side kick, Roy Williams, with their group carry on in the tradition of small group swing recalling those great combos led by John Kirby, Charlie Shavers, Benny Carter, Buck Clayton and many, many others. The Moss/Williams quintet takes us on a stroll through 13 tunes, all but two of them oft-heard standards. The other two tracks, Johnny Hodges' “Hiya" and Duke Ellington's “Blues to Be". The Ellington tune is from his and Billy Strayhorn's ...

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Keeper of the Flame

Nagel Heyer Records
2021

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The International...

Nagel Heyer Records
2020

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The International...

Nagel Heyer Records
2002

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Love Songs Live!

Nagel Heyer Records
2001

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The Last Great Concert

Nagel Heyer Records
2000

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Steamers!

Nagel Heyer Records
2000

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