Heavy Juice

Scott Hamilton, Scott Hamilton & Harry Allen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B0002CHIPG
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,946 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swing, Swing, Swing, November 26, 2004

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Dennis S. Marynick (Southwest U.S.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heavy Juice (Audio CD)

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, and Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen swing like crazy on this CD. With similar styles, and no desire to get into a cutting contest, these guys produce some of the most coherent and "together" jazz in a long time. This is a rare effort-- one that should be enjoyed by a jazz veteran, as well as a newcomer. Just great stuff!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learning to love tenor battles all over again, March 28, 2010

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heavy Juice (Audio CD)

Initially I feared that I might have difficulty distinguishing between two reactionary players, both of whom sounded so much like Ben Webster. But each is as distinctive as were the two-tenor team of Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt. In fact, as if to encourage the comparison, one of the programmed tunes is Stitt's "Blues Up and Down," employed as a frequent vehicle for the friendly but always heated sparring matches between Jug and Sonny.

Hamilton and Allen have just as much fun with it--a highlight being the climactic, musical ping-pong game when they go for a chorus exchanging the identical B- flat note, shaping it and reshaping it through every possible variation in articulation, elocution, vibrato. Hamilton's sound is a bit brighter and more forward, employing slightly more of the Ben Webster breathiness and vibrato; Allen's is a bit darker, or slightly shaded, with more extended phrases and melodic-rhythmic ideas that simply know no let-up. There is no winner, other than the listener.

If you like this one, I recommend the Concord release "Groovin' High," which features Hamilton in the company of two other tenors--Ken Peplowski and the amazing Spike Robinson.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This album SWINGS!, October 7, 2004

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CollegeScam (Gainesville, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heavy Juice (Audio CD)

This is a great album all the way through. Hamilton and Allen compliment each other very well, and this disc is definately worth the money. I reserve 5 star ratings only for the best albums ever, though. If you are looking for one of the greatest two-tenor albums, get Ammons and Stitts on "Boss Tenors: Straight Ahead from Chicago 1961." You wont be dissapointed.