 Track listing, track times and composer:
1. NAKIA ……………………………………8:18
2. SACRED GROUND …………………… 6:28
3. CARESS …………………………………6:31
4. HILLSIDE STRUT ……………………… 6:03
5. WHO CAN I TURN TO? ……………… 7:37
6. WHISPERS IN THE DARK …………… 6:09
7. WITH OPEN ARMS …………………… 4:41
8. EVE DECEIVED …………………………4:55
9. PUSH …………………………………… 5:45
All compositions by Eddie Allen, except “Who Can I Turn To?” by Anthony Newley
Musicians Names + Instruments:
Eddie Allen – TRUMPET
Keith Loftis – TENOR SAX
Dion Tucker – TROMBONE
Misha Tsiganov – KEYBOARDS
Mark Soskin – PIANO
Kenny Davis – ACOUSTIC BASS
E.J. Strickland – DRUMS
Artists Home Market: New York City
The goal of this project was simply to create some good, “fun to listen to” music. One way of doing this is to work with excellent musicians.
Another, for me, is to combine various styles that feels good to play. I had the pleasure of doing both. Hopefully the listener will enjoy what I was hearing in my head.”
Trumpeter, composer, arranger, author, educator,… Eddie Allen is one of the more versatile musicians on the New York scene. He’s called upon to play everything from jazz (big band as well as small ensembles) to R & B/pop to latin to symphonic to Broadway and everything in
between. He studied music, theory and arranging at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay before moving to the east coast. He then attended William Paterson University of New Jersey where he received a Bachelor of
Music degree.
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Since his arrival on the New York scene he’s worked with such jazz greats as; Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, Randy Weston, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Foster, Billy Harper, Henry Threadgill, Bobby Watson, Jon Faddis, Benny Carter, Panama Francis and Steve Turre.
He has recorded and performed with, as well as composed for; Louis Hayes, Lester Bowie, Etta Jones & Houston Person, Mongo Santamaria, Chico Freeman, Charli Persip, Vanessa Rubin and Muhal Richard Abrams.
He currently leads a jazz quartet, a jazz quintet, an Afro-Cuban/Brasilian group called Salongo and a 16-piece big band called the Eddie Allen Aggregation. He continues to work as a free-lance musician, an educator and clinician.
—Derek Taylor, Master of a Small House
Eddie Allen performs and records on SHURE microphones, Phaeton Musical Instruments and uses ZOOM Electronics.
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