Flying Over Rio from Harry Allen

New Standards | Oct 5, 2014

Harry Allen´s most recent release, Flying Over Rio is a celebration of the jazz, the Songbook and (as the title suggests) the music of Brazil. Jazz critic Will Friedwald has called Flying Over Rio, "not only [the] blending the jazz of two Americas, but [the] combining the South American songbook with North American pop songs and show tunes (in the spirit of the Sinatra - Jobim collaborations, which set the songs of Cole Porter and Irving Berlin to a bossa beat)."

That was all we needed to hear. This week on The Headliner, we take a look at this new recording from saxophonist Harry Allen.

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