Live - Phillip Morris All Stars

Starring Stanley Turrentine tenor sax and Ernie Andrews vocals. If you can dig them both, more power to you. Here is a breakdown of the instrumental tracks - Bags Groove features solos by Stanley, Kenny Burrell and Gene Harris - I Wish I Knew features muted Sweets. Great song Great changes but he quotes from Blue Bird and a slightly longer one from Shiny Stockings along the way. Kenny Burrell is featured on the Ellington medley. Time After Time is a great mid tempo track with solos by Stanley and Gene Harris. Cottontail is taken at a fast tempo with solos by all, Burrell, open horn Sweets, Turrentine, Harris, George Mraz bass and Lewis Nash drums.

Gene Harris plays a mean piano. Though he's no longer with us, he left a great legacy of jazz music spanningover four decades.

This is one of the best live jazz recordings ever made, in my opinion. Gene Harris seems always to bring a deep rockin' bluesy mood to his musicians. His sense of rhythm, lyricism, phrasing and chordation is unmatchable. The rest of his band members, including his vocalists, always show a feeling for the music, a musical mood and expressiveness you don't often find. The music is real, not big-band perfection, but a live journey through a night of felt music by a group of experienced jazz jammers.

Concord Jazz has come up with the "essential blues" album for all jazz lovers to soak up - Milt Jackson, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Memphis Slim, Billy Strayhorn, Charlie Parker, Walter Brown, Jay McShan, Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, Victor Young, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Jimmy Rushing and the Great Count Basie, each composer has contributed their variations of "the blues".Gene Harris and the group get right down to business - setting the stage for Stanley Turrentine (sax) and Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet) to etch a subdued landscape, while Kenny Burrell (guitar), George Mraz (bass) and Lewis Nash (drums) provide a hypnotic back-beat from the alpha to omega (the beginning and ending), the audience of true jazz veterans listen feeling no pain, completely spellbound.Of course there are stand outs - "I WISH I KNEW" a great tune that Count Basie made his own with his big band sound, but listen and see how Harris & Company reinvent, make this classic, even "more classic"..."COLLAGE IN BLUE", is low-down-blues in the purest form, and Ernie Andrews (vocal), tells the story of human conditions, their joys and sorrows, always yearning for freedom as music spreads the word of love, despair with a touch of sly humor.Total Time: 60:14 on 7 Tracks...Concord Jazz CCD 4808...(1998)

I love this album. I've been a fan of Gene Harris for twenty years, and this is one of his finest moments. This is perhaps the best blues album in my collection. This is a solid five-star. Great performance by Gene Harris, Stanley Turrentine on sax, vocals by Ernie Andrews. If you love blues, don't miss this one!

I have nothing but the very highest praise for this CD, not only for the brilliant music and musicianship, but also for the quality of the reproduction.

This well-recorded and musically satisfyling CD is far better than the low-cost would suggest. Not essential jazz, but certainly enjoyable, with some excellent playing by a star-studded group with Stanley Turrentine, Kenny Burrell and typical bluesy vocals by Ernie Andrews on two of the tracks.Ray from Birmingham, UK

Stunning