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Live from Blue Lake with Geri Allen: April 10th, 10 P.M.
The Detroit jazz record label Mack Avenue invites you to tune in for “Live From Blue Lake," five live jazz performances from the studios of Blue Lake Public Radio, starting this Thursday, April 10th at 10 p.m. when Detroit jazz great Geri Allen (geriallen.com) performs solo from Blodgett Recital Hall, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Then ...
University of Michigan Jazz Showcase Concert
The University of Michigan Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation will present its annual Jazz Showcase Concert on Sunday March 30th at 8pm in Stamps Auditorium at the Walgreen Center on North Campus. Featured performers on this concert will include Profs. Geri Allen and Dennis Wilson as well as the Creative Arts Orchestra, UM Jazz Trombone ...
Spirituality in Jazz
by Joel Roberts
The ties between jazz and the church, especially the African American church, run deep, going back to the music's formative years and continuing to the present, as three recent releases by jazz pianists attest. Geri Allen Timeless Portraits and Dreams Telarc 2006 On Timeless Portraits and Dreams, ...
Timeless Portraits And Dreams
By Geri Allen
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Oh Freedom; Melchezedik; Portraits and Dreams; Well Done; La Strada; I Have a Dream; Nearly; In Real Time; Embraceable You; Ah-Leu-Cha; Just for a Thrill; Our Lady (for Billie Holiday); Timeless Portraits and Dreams; Portraits and Dreams (reprise)
Zodiac Suite: Revisited
By Geri Allen
Label: Mary Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 1. Aries - 7:18;
2. Taurus - 4:11;
3. Gemini - 5:04;
4. Cancer - 5:50;
5. Leo - 2:51;
6. Virgo - 3.17;
7. Libra - 4:24;
8. Scorpio - 6:31;
9. Sagittarius - 3:17;
10. Capricorn - 2:12;
11. Aquarius - 3:13;
12. Pisces - 3:00;
13. The Bebop Waltz (Herbie Nichols) - 6:11;
14. Intermission - 8:52;
15. Thank You Madam (Geri Allen) - 7:40
Ad eccezione dei brani 13 e 15, tutte le composizioni del cd sono di Mary Lou
Williams
Geri Allen: Timeless Portraits and Dreams
by Woodrow Wilkins
There's a certain purity, perhaps innocence, about jazz that's played without the bells and whistles of modern technology and untainted by commercial trappings. When that purity is combined with superb songwriting, you have the makings of a recording that will never sound old. So it is with Timeless Portraits and Dreams. A native ...
Geri Allen: Timeless Portraits and Dreams
by AAJ Italy Staff
Eleganza e raffinatezza sono le parole d’ordine di questo Timeless Portraits and Dreams, ultima fatica discografica di Geri Allen in trio (e che trio, Ron Carter al contrabbasso e Jimmy Cobb alla batteria!). Per la verità durante l’ora abbondante di musica, compresi i quattro minuti di un bonus disc?!, al trio della pianista di Pontiac si ...
The Mary Lou Williams Collective: Zodiac Suite: Revisited
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questa è un'opera importante, destinata a lasciare una traccia profonda nella discografia jazzistica del 2006. Nel riproporre la Zodiac Suite di Mary Lou Williams, la pianista Gery Allen e i suoi compagni del Mary Lou Williams Collective hanno scelto di concentrarsi sulle doti squisitamente pianistiche dell'autrice piuttosto che su quelle d'arrangiamento. Due potevano essere le strade ...
Geri Allen: The Life of a Song
by Francis Lo Kee
It's great to hear Geri Allen cut loose and play with abandon on this mostly trio effort (Mal Waldron's “Soul Eyes has trumpet, sax, and trombone briefly added). Hailing from Detroit and admittedly influenced by the Motown sound and feel, Allen plays with a refreshingly honest direction and immediacy. This particular trio, with Jack DeJohnette and ...
The Life Of A Song
By Geri Allen
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. LWB's House (The Remix); 2. Mounts And Mountains; 3. Lush Life; 4. In
Appreciation: A Celebration Song; 5. The Experimental Movement; 6. Holdin' Court; 7.
Dance Of The Infidels; 8. Unconditional Love; 9. The Life Of A Song; 10. Black
Bottom; 11. Soul Eyes.
