Allan Harris at Pompano Beach Cultural Center

Pompano Beach Arts presents Allan Harris

July 17 at 8: Allan Harris performs songs from his new release Kate’s Soulfood, plus Jazz Standards from the Great American Songbook. Live at Pompano Beach Cultural Center, 50 West Atlantic Boulevard, Pompano Beach FL 33060. 954-545-7800. Safe-distance seating. Tickets $15 at https://www.pompanobeacharts.org/programs/allan-harris-hosted-by-tamara-g-of-wlyf-101-5

"My favorite singer…." Tony Bennett

Ever since he burst on the jazz scene in the latter part of the twentieth century, The Brooklyn-born, Harlem-based vocalist/guitarist/bandleader/composer Allan Harris has reigned supreme as the most accomplished and exceptional singer of his generation. Aptly described by the Miami Herald as an artist blessed with, “the warmth of Tony Bennett, the bite and rhythmic sense of Sinatra, and the sly elegance of Nat ‘King' Cole,” the ample and aural evidence of Harris’ moving and magisterial artistry can be heard on his fourteen recordings as a leader; his far-flung and critically-acclaimed concerts around the world, from Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, to the 2012 London Olympics, and many prestigious bookings in Europe, The Middle East and Asia. “I’m a storyteller through the genre of jazz.”...

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Pompano Beach Arts presents Allan Harris

July 17 at 8: Allan Harris performs songs from his new release Kate’s Soulfood, plus Jazz Standards from the Great American Songbook. Live at Pompano Beach Cultural Center, 50 West Atlantic Boulevard, Pompano Beach FL 33060. 954-545-7800. Safe-distance seating. Tickets $15 at https://www.pompanobeacharts.org/programs/allan-harris-hosted-by-tamara-g-of-wlyf-101-5

"My favorite singer…." Tony Bennett

Ever since he burst on the jazz scene in the latter part of the twentieth century, The Brooklyn-born, Harlem-based vocalist/guitarist/bandleader/composer Allan Harris has reigned supreme as the most accomplished and exceptional singer of his generation. Aptly described by the Miami Herald as an artist blessed with, “the warmth of Tony Bennett, the bite and rhythmic sense of Sinatra, and the sly elegance of Nat ‘King' Cole,” the ample and aural evidence of Harris’ moving and magisterial artistry can be heard on his fourteen recordings as a leader; his far-flung and critically-acclaimed concerts around the world, from Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, to the 2012 London Olympics, and many prestigious bookings in Europe, The Middle East and Asia. “I’m a storyteller through the genre of jazz.”

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx55llLf3Ec

Courtesy of KCC Productions.

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