Geri Allen, Dave Holland, Jack Dejohnette

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Geri Allen, Dave Holland, Jack Dejohnette
2004 - The Life Of A Song

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Geri Allen (born June 12, 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is a jazz pianist and music educator from Detroit, Michigan, who has worked with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans. She is married to trumpeter Wallace Roney.

Allen received her early jazz education at the famed Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where her mentor was the highly regarded trumpeter/teacher Marcus Belgrave. In 1979, Allen earned her bachelor's degree in jazz studies from Howard University in Washington, D.C. After graduation, she moved to New York City, where she studied with the veteran bop pianist Kenny Barron. From there, at the behest of the jazz educator Nathan Davis, Allen attended the University of Pittsburgh, earning a master's degree in ethnomusicology, returning to New York in 1982. In the mid-'80s, Allen formed an association with the Brooklyn "M-Base" crowd that surrounded alto saxophonist Steve Coleman. Allen played on several of Coleman's albums, including his first, 1985's Motherland Pulse.

Allen's own first album, The Printmakers, with Anthony Cox and Andrew Cyrille, from a year earlier, showcased the pianist's more avant-garde tendencies. In 1988 came perhaps her first mature group statement, Etude, a cooperative trio effort with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. In 1995, she was the first recipient of Soul Train’s Lady of Soul Award for jazz album of the year for Twenty-One, featuring Tony Williams and Ron Carter. Allen continued to push the improvisational envelope with Sound Museum, a 1996 recording made under the leadership of Ornette Coleman. The solo Gathering followed in 1998. Allen was named the top Talent Deserving Wider Recognition among pianists in the 1993 and 1994 Down Beat magazine Critics' Polls. 2004's The Life of a Song was recorded with veterans Dave Holland on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums.

Geri Allen currently teaches as Associate Professor of Jazz Piano & Improvisation Studies at University of Michigan as well as recording and touring with Charles Lloyd.

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"The Life of a Song" is Geri Allen's first new release in six years. A native of Detroit, Miss Allen comes from the same fertile jazz soil that gave birth to the Jones Brothers (Hank, Thad, and Elvin), Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Garrett, and James Carter as well as many others. Collected here are eight original compositions and three standards. Allen directs each piece carefully, giving them the personal attention and touch of a master. Her original compositions are characterized by a percussive texture with a baroque sensibility. She translates this sensibility to the three standards. “Lush Life” is transformed into a post bop ballad heaven. Bud Powell's “Dance of the Infidels” retains all of its bebop character as Allen infuses it with modern rhythms and time changes. Mal Waldron's superb “Soul Eyes” ends the disc with a three horn front, providing an airy listening experience as the earthy melody is partially deconstructed to reveal the song's inner harmonic beauty. The Life of a Song is a strong effort by a collaboration of strong musicians.