JD Allen: Toys / Die Dreaming

JD Allen

Toys / Die Dreaming

Savant

JD Allen blows the tenor sax with the clean warmth of Dexter Gordon and the wild abandon of John Coltrane. Allen has, across the last two decades, racked up 14 albums as a leader and sided with plenty of great players too (I remember first coming across his name as one of the pistons that fired the band Cindy Blackman Sa…