Carl Allen - Tippin’ (2025)

Carl Allen
Tippin’
2025 - Cellar Live Records / Cellar Music: CM011324
https://www.cellarlive.com/
https://cellarlive.bandcamp.com/
https://carlallen.bandcamp.com/album/tippin

* Chris Potter : tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
* Christian McBride: bass
* Carl Allen : drums
* John Lee : piano (8)

https://www.chrispottermusic.com/
https://www.christianmcbride.com/
https://www.carlallen.com/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-lee-mn0002336669

Recorded by Maureen Sickler at Van Gelder Studio,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, on January 13, 2024.

Reviews
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By Mike Gates
https://ukvibe.org/album_reviews/carl-allen/

There’s something wonderful about a good old fashioned, no nonsense
sax-bass-drums trio album, and this formidable threesome really hit the sweet
spot with a powerhouse performance on the very enjoyable “Tippin”. For drummer
Carl Allen, this recording is the realisation of a dream he’d been nurturing
for quite some time. Over twenty years have passed since his last outing as
band-leader, so for this session he was determined to pick his dream team – and
with Potter and McBride it’s surely impossible to think of anyone better. [...]

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By Matt Collar
https://www.allmusic.com/album/tippin-mw0004439566

By Dan Bilawsky
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tippin-carl-allen-cellar-music-group

By Pierre Giroux
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tippin-carl-allen-cellar-music-group__22958

By Adam Sieff
https://ukjazznews.com/carl-allen-tippin/

Turgay Yalçın (tr)
https://darkbluenotes.com/carl-allen-ve-cazin-mega-starlari-tippin-2025-cellar-live/

di Silvano (it)
https://offtopicmagazine.net/2025/02/06/carl-allen-tippin/