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The Geri Allen Trio Appearing at The Jazz Bakery Oct. 18-22 shows 8:00PM and 9:30PM
Geri Allen: piano; Kenny Davis: bass; Mark Johnson: drums.
Appearing at
The Jazz Bakery
3233 Helms Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Reservations: 310-271-9039
http://www.jazzbakery.com
Oct.18 -22 shows 8:00PM and 9:30PM
Performing music from her new Telarc CD Timeless Portraits and Dreams (In Stores Now!)
“Jazz pianist Geri Allen has taken the freedom of Jazz and combined it with the cultural freedom movements that have paralleled the evolution of jazz itself." --Tavis Smiley
Timeless Portraits and Dreams features: Geri Allen, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums Wallace Roney, trumpet; Donald Walden, tenor saxophone Carmen Lundy, vocalist, George Shirley, operatic tenor Atlanta Jazz Chorus directed by Dwight Andrews
A mix of Original Compositions ("Our Lady" - Allen's sensitive portrait of Billie Holiday & “In Real Time" written with her husband Wallace Roney), Jazz Standards (Charlie Parker's “Ah-leu-cha" and Lil Hardin Armstrong's “Just for a Thrill"), and Spirituals ("Lift Every Voice and Sing", “Well Done", and Mary Lou Williams' “I Have a Dream"), “Timeless Portraits and Dreams" is Geri Allen's affirmation of the artistic, historical, and spiritual connections that have made Jazz the cultural force it is today.
“Timeless Portraits and Dreams takes us on a shared journey through the universal language that chronicles the Black Experience".
Appearing at
The Jazz Bakery
3233 Helms Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Reservations: 310-271-9039
http://www.jazzbakery.com
Oct.18 -22 shows 8:00PM and 9:30PM
Performing music from her new Telarc CD Timeless Portraits and Dreams (In Stores Now!)
“Jazz pianist Geri Allen has taken the freedom of Jazz and combined it with the cultural freedom movements that have paralleled the evolution of jazz itself." --Tavis Smiley
Timeless Portraits and Dreams features: Geri Allen, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums Wallace Roney, trumpet; Donald Walden, tenor saxophone Carmen Lundy, vocalist, George Shirley, operatic tenor Atlanta Jazz Chorus directed by Dwight Andrews
A mix of Original Compositions ("Our Lady" - Allen's sensitive portrait of Billie Holiday & “In Real Time" written with her husband Wallace Roney), Jazz Standards (Charlie Parker's “Ah-leu-cha" and Lil Hardin Armstrong's “Just for a Thrill"), and Spirituals ("Lift Every Voice and Sing", “Well Done", and Mary Lou Williams' “I Have a Dream"), “Timeless Portraits and Dreams" is Geri Allen's affirmation of the artistic, historical, and spiritual connections that have made Jazz the cultural force it is today.
“Timeless Portraits and Dreams takes us on a shared journey through the universal language that chronicles the Black Experience".
For more information contact Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services.
