Harry Allen Quintet Plays Music from The Sound Of Music

Harry Allen- tenor sax, arrangements, all tenor parts on "Something Good"
Rossano Sportiello- piano
Joe Cohn- guitar
Joel Forbes- bass
Chuck Riggs- drums
Rebecca Kilgore- vocals
Eddie Erickson- vocals

"Two forward-thinking gentlemen, saxophonist Harry Allen and guitarist Joe Cohn, have brought forth the idea that if classic musicals, such Guys and Dolls and South Pacific, can be revived on Broadway, why can't we also revive the whole idea of the jazz-show album? And, in fact, that's exactly what Messrs. Allen and Cohn have done, starting with their highly acclaimed jazz packages of the scores to Guys and Dolls (ARCD 19354) and South Pacific (ARCD 19380). The Sound of Music, by the Harry Allen Quintet is, I think, the finest in his hopefully-ongoing series of jazz-Broadway hybrids."

—Will Friedwald writes about jazz for The Wall Street Journal

Selections:
How Can Love Survive?
Maria
Do Re Mi
Something Good
No Way to Stop It
Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Sixteen Going On Seventeen
My Favorite Things
The Lonely Goatherd
The Sound of Music
I Have Confidence
An Ordinary Couple
So Long, Farewell
Edelweiss