If you didn't pay close attention to American Idol Season 8, you can be forgiven for thinking that Kris Allen came in second to Adam Lambert. After all, Lambert is the one who grabbed all the headlines and magazine covers, while Allen plugg...
Personnel: Carl Allen (drums); Rodney Jones (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Vincent Herring (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Kirk Whalum (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Brandon Lee (trumpet); Vincent Chandler, Vincent Chandler...
Usually, when a musician experiences a traumatic event in his or her life, they can seek refuge in their art, and/or use the experience to influence the direction of their next project. And that is exactly what singer/guitarist Aimee Allen ...
Personnel: Vick Allen (keyboards, drum programming, background vocals); Spanky Williams (guitar, keyboards); Dennis Bonds, Phil West, Alton Hollis (guitar); Ezra Brown (saxophone); Kevin Lipsey (drum programming); Omar Cunningham (backgroun...
These are tracks that the rockabilly artist (and author of the 1993 novel HONKY TOCK ADDICT) Mack Allen Smith recorded in Memphis and Muscle Shoals a few years after a failed session at Sun Records. Though very much a country-influenced roc...
For its third proper album, Bishop Allen continued to perfect their amalgam of riff-centered, wittily lyrical, Pavement-influenced college rock and indie-pop sweetness. On "South China Moon," band principals Justin Rice and Christian Rudder...
Personnel: Allen Toussaint (vocals, piano); Marc Ribot (acoustic guitar); Don Byron (clarinet); Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone); Nicholas Payton (trumpet); Brad Mehldau (piano); David Piltch (upright bass); Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion)...
Personnel: Jason Allen Rich (vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Jason Allen Rich (vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Joe Rusinek (guitar); Steven Lieweke, Jason Anderson, Lanny Cordola (electric guitar); Rachel Harris (c...
Personnel: Darbie Nowatka (vocals); Daniel Hart (strings); Kelly Pratt, Jon Natchez (horns); Michael Tapper (drums, percussion); Ken Cook (background vocals); Christian Rudder, Justin Rice.Audio Mixer: Bryce Goggin.For its third prope...
Singer Lily Frost is a hard one to pin down. She's studied modern jazz and is influenced by 1960s music and pop culture, yet Frost also has a background in `20s jazz and pop as well as '50s retro swing. LILY SWINGS is a tribute to two legen...
Personnel: J.D. Allen (tenor saxophone); Gregg August (bass guitar); Rudy Royston, Gerald Cleaver, Rudy Royston (drums).Audio Mixer: David Altman Fleisher.J.D. Allen is a tenor saxophonist who clearly wears his influences on his sleev...