Friday, August 6, 2010

Flying Toward the Sound: so beautifully impressionistic, the pianist Geri Allen recalls the "angels creators."

She walked through to the sunken media spotlight.
In 2010, however, she releases two albums at once: one, launched earlier this year - and what this post says - it is a solo piano project called Flying Toward the Sound, the other released in June, shows his quartet called Timeline.

However, regardless of his reappearance, the pianist Geri Allen, one of the greatest jazz musicians that the last decades have shown, there is a type of artist which should have only one album and even less to lose sight of it or forget it.

Now this lady has moved freely between the creative core of free jazz through their associations with musicians like Andrew Cyrille and Joseph Jarman, was a founder of the M-Base Steve Coleman, already led a successful trio with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, already piloted in fantastic designs and fine channels such as Downbeat, JazzTimes and New York Times - as the album Zodiac Suite Revisited (a rereading of the original suite of Mary Lou Williams) - and has already integrated the legendary Charles Lloyd Quartet, that these achievements many musicians wish they had in their curricula.

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