Some recent activity on the Red Allen reissue front--
This 2 CD set contains five different dates from the 1950s, two of them featuring Red. A 1955 band with a front line of Red, Tony Parenti on clarinet, and Tyree Glenn on trombone plays six warhorses and a blues. Two years later Glenn and Red return, joined by Buster Bailey on clarinet and Boomie Richman on tenor sax to play nine overly-familiar tunes, with Willie "the Lion" Smith hammering away in the rhythm section.