Track Listings (9) - Disc #1| All Artists: Geri Allen Title: Flying Toward the Sound (Dig) Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Motema Music Original Release Date: 1/1/2010 Re-Release Date: 3/9/2010 Genres: Jazz, Pop Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 181212000375 |
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* Celebrated, multi-award-winning jazz pianist Geri Allen makes her highly anticipated solo piano debut featuring her new suite, "Refractions: Flying Toward the Sound," composed as her 2008-09 Guggenheim Fellowship Award p... more » |
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Album Description * Celebrated, multi-award-winning jazz pianist Geri Allen makes her highly anticipated solo piano debut featuring her new suite, "Refractions: Flying Toward the Sound," composed as her 2008-09 Guggenheim Fellowship Award project. The extraordinary work (with elements of jazz, meditation music, and classical piano) refracts the genius of jazz innovators Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, and Herbie Hancock through the lens of Allen's own formidable genius. * A short art film by famed African American filmmaker/photographer Carrie Mae Weems will be co-promoted with the CD, adding a sophisticated visual dimension to the promotion campaign. Portions of the film are included here as enhanced CD content. "A truly gifted pianist should be a world unto his or her own while under the influence of composing magic. This [is something] Allen has accomplished with over twenty years of pure ivory joy." -- eJazzNews "Rare combination of dazzling compositional skill and melodically inventive technique." -- JazzTimes "Geri Allen, whether playing standards or her own jazz compositions, is one of the most adept, graceful jazz pianists playing in today's jazz scene." -- JazzReview "Superb songwriting ... musical elegance." -- All About Jazz Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsGeri Allen Always Surprises Me Stephen LH Braunginn | Madison, WI | 05/26/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "Geri Allen overshadows all of the pianists in her generation, not by miles, but by worlds. Her latest album, a solo, provides such sensitivity and gentile finesse, that at times, it feels like Ms. Allen and the gift of her hands glide over you, through you, and surrounds you with technique and style unknown since the high points of McCoy Tyner's and Mary Lou Williams' piano inventiveness and brilliance. As the artistic director of the Mary Lou Williams Collective, the inner light of Ms. Williams on Geri's work is so apparent. Two women who chose the piano as their instrument, their voice to share who they are with the world come together as one with this remarkable recording. With the departure and great loss of Ms. Williams in 1981, passing the baton on to Geri Allen was only a natural and sensible thing to do. Ms. Allen coalesces the many musicians with whom she's performed; their ideas, their own voices and meshed them together with her now highly mature abilities. "Flying Toward the Sound" is what Geri Allen indeed does. Using her piano as a magic carpet, Geri Allen flies into the stratosphere of jazz, giving jazz another definitive moment for future musicians of all types to learn from. What beautiful sounds float through the air, reaching out to the listener, to me, demanding that I cease whatever I'm doing to turn my attention to the works of this greatest of pianists today. Geri Allen's climb to the peak of this enormous mountain of music and musicians has now arrived with this extraordinary album, "Flying Toward the Sound." Mary Lou Williams is surely smiling in the heavens as she looks upon her successor as one of the greatest of greats in jazz; in jazz piano."
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