Dave Allen Quartet
with
Seamus Blake - sax
Massimo Biocalti - bass
Greg Ritchie - drums
Smalls
183 W 10th St at 7th ave
730-10pm
Cover Charge gets you in all night.
Donny McCaslin's group plays after us.
“Dave Allen is one of a number of spitfire jazz guitarists raising the bar on that ever- popular instrument. But Allen offers more than battle-ready chops—his Untold Stories and Real and Imagined are about original music, loftily conceived, with graceful melodic content and subtle rhythmic challenges. He’s got the pull to assemble world-class bands every time out." - David Adler, Jazz Times Magazine
“Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and mind--again and again." -All About Jazz
“An exciting and unique player in the mold of Pat Metheny, Ben Monder and Adam Rogers. Monster chops, harmonic resourcefulness, strong melodic sense, seamless group interaction, considerable compositional talent and a kick-ass group of talented players make this CD an electrifying piece of work." -Lyle Robinson, Jazzguitarlife.com
“Allen has a fully developed and mature approach to composition, technical command of his instrument, and the inspirational fortitude to pull wonderful music from the ensemble. Each piece is like an aural painting or film in the way it slides across the psyche." -Farrell Lowe, All About Jazz
“Allen has what could be dubbed as “string-imagination,” the ability to quickly form and rethink patterns like moving water--flowing, lucid and spontaneous, paired with superior comping skills--filling in the gaps with creative touches and chord-work." - Mark F. Turner, All About Jazz
“A number of tracks have melodies that etched themselves in my mind. The music is full of subtlety. Allen has no seeming limit to histechnique, but he always puts it to good musical ends.” -Budd Koppman, AllAboutJazz.com
“There is a true sensuality to the guitarist’s sound... unfolding his lines with an edge-of- your-seat stealth” --Jim Macnie, Village Voice
“Mr. Allen is a guitarist with a coolly modernistic sensibility, as he demonstrates on a forthcoming album, “Real and Imagined” (Fresh Sound New Talent)." --Nate Chinen, NY Times
For more information contact All About Jazz.
