Vocalist Allan Harris always brings a fine instrument and an endless amount of imagination to his projects. He's done it with Nat Cole and Eddie Jefferson, told us stories of the American Black Cowboy, taken us inside a juke joint or through his own sense memory of his aunt's soul food restaurant around the corner from the world famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem. For all this he's built quite a following, and was a prize winner at last year's Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition.
Here, captured live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Allan drives his band through the worlds of Bobby Hebb, Eddie Jefferson, Miles Davis and Chick Corea, with a couple of original stories to seal the set.
From Monday, August 21 through Friday, August 25, one cut from the LIve at the Blue Llama Jazz Club album will be featured each morning on the New Day, New Play spotlight on my Daybreak show.
Preview “Sunny” from Live at the Blue Llama Jazz Club, above.
