Allen Cousins

Allen Cousins (1937-2006) was a Lovian jazz pianist. Cousins played with several quartets in the 1960s and early 1970s. He returned to jazz in the mid-1980s after a period of retirement, involved in many concerts and shows. He is best-known for the albums In Tune (1963), Blue is Blue (1967) and Live at the Bari (1965),

Biography
Cousins was born in Kinley. From 1962 to 1970 he was the leader of the Allen Cousins Quartet, which mostly involved Sam Diricco and Pet Tracey. After disagreements with his bandmates, he fired them in late 1968, using a variety of musicians before going solo in 1970.

He stopped recording in 1974, as he found it hard to adapt to more experimental and funk-tinged jazz, and stopped touring in 1975. Cousins returned to live performances in 1985, which he kept up until the early 2000s.

Discography
Blue is Blue and In Tune are his best-known studio albums, especially popular due to modern-day reissues in 1994 (on CD) and 2010 (LP). He recorded a popular live album at the Bari club in Grijzestad, Brunant in 1965, then a popular club for jazz and blues.