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Echoes of Harlem / Drop Me Off in Harlem 03:07
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Jungle Nights in Harlem 03:37
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Boys from Harlem 03:33
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Sugar Hill Penthouse 02:31
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Blue Belles of Harlem 03:07
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Harlem Speaks 05:28
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Chinatown, My Chinatown 03:09
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Rose of Washington Square / Broadway Rose 06:43
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Slumming on Park Avenue 05:13
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42nd Street 05:59
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Scrapple from the Apple 05:48
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Nostalgia in Times Square 08:14
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Grand Central 08:31
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52nd Street Theme 04:42
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Take the "A" Train 07:46
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"The solos ring true; the band warms the room. Uptown Lowdon is jazz music of the highest quality. Why can't all dream bands sound like this?"
- Cadence

It took a German recording team to enable trumpeter/arranger Randy Sandke to assemble this all-American, 12-piece ensemble for a panorama of New York-inspired tunes, recorded in the Big Apple in the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse as part of the 1999 JVC Jazz Festival. In doing so, he raided the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as several independent history-minded players in the area, and emerged with a band that fires off the numbers with crisp virtuosity in any idiom called for. Thankfully, there is also more than enough gusto in the playing, due in no small part to the live festival recording situation. "The Harlem Medley," a lengthy leadoff stream of delicacies from the land of Ellingtonia, gets close enough to the Ellington sound to convey the idea without being slavishly imitative or ghostly. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra boys know their Ellington craft well and apply the plunger mutes accordingly. From there, the band doubles back to Dixieland, works its way up to swing, and slides without a glitch into bebop ("Scrapple From the Apple"), a Mingus shuffle blues ("Nostalgia in Times Square"), transitional Coltrane ("Grand Central"), and some Monk ("52nd Street Theme"), before being deposited back in Harlem by -- naturally -- the "'A' Train." In between the main tour stops, Concord Jazz teammates guitarist Howard Alden and clarinetist Ken Peplowski serve up another of their fluid duets on Irving Berlin's "Slumming on Park Avenue." Other high points include clarinetist Allan Vaché wailing in the trad flagwaver "Chinatown" and trumpeters Sandke and Warren Vaché duking it out on "42nd Street." In all, a well-recorded souvenir of what sounds like a heartwarming local celebration.

AllMusic Review by Richard S. Ginell

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released October 6, 2020

Randy Sandke - trumpet
Warren Vaché - trumpet
Wycliffe Gordon - trombone
Ken Peplowski - clarinet, tenor sax
Allan Vaché - clarinet
Scott Robinson - alto sax, tenor sax, flute
Joe Temperley - baritone sax
Howard Alden - guitar
Eric Reed - piano
Mark Shane - piano
Rodney Whitaker - bass
Joe Ascione - drums

Recorded live at the 1999 JVC Jazz Festival New York.
Directed by Randy Sandke.
Special thanks to George Wein.

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Eric Reed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eric Scott Reed (born June 21, 1970) is an American jazz pianist and composer.
Reed was playing piano in his father's church by age five, and at age seven began formal study at Philadelphia's Settlement Music School. At age 11 his family moved to Los Angeles, and he studied at the R. D. Colburn School of Arts.
In May 1986 Reed met Wynton Marsalis, an encounter that would greatly aid his career. ... more

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