Harry Allen News

December 20, 2009, 6:54 AM / Hip-Hop Robin Thicke "Sex Therapy" What makes Robin Thicke's "Sex Therapy" so addictive is the way he bends the latest hip-hop styles to his will.

Eleven pieces on a New York theme, to follow up last year's sparkling Hits by Brits album.

We jazz and blues fans in this part of the Garden State are so lucky. We have choices.

It's always a pleasure to receive the last batch of discs from Gerry Teekens' Criss Cross label.

Jazz lovers rejoice. The Palladium Theater features two great shows sure to please in the month of August and beyond.

Jazz trumpeter Ingrid Jensen will perform Oct 25 at the third of 10 concerts in the 2009-10 Topeka Jazz Workshop Inc.

Bill Charlap waited until almost the last possible moment in "The Gerry Mulligan Songbook," a tribute at the 92nd Street Y on Monday night, before divulging a sentimental piece of trivia.

Vocalist Kurt Elling will be a special guest artist on "Radio Deluxe" with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 5, 2009, at 2 pm in Lenox, Massachusetts.

HARRY ALLEN a ' JOE COHN QUARTET a Plays Music From South Pacific **** Arbors Records ARCD 19380, A 13.70 Singers Rebecca Kilgore and Eddie Erickson should really get the star billing since they're so heavily featured on this lovely and unusual album, which translates virtually the entire Rodgers and Hammerstein musical into jazz.

Stan Getz characterized the challenge that tenor saxophonists face as singing perfectly on an imperfect instrument.

The Elkhart Jazz Festival will take place from Friday through Sunday, beginning Friday at 5:30 p.m. and running through Sunday early evening.

Travelers to Israel this summer can experience three days of classical and contemporary jazz music at the 5th Annual Jazz Festival at Caesarea Harbor .