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Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – May - "My ideas have been realised not in a passive manner but in an active manner which has recreated and reinvented what I have done." Read More

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Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl Wed Aug 28 / 13 Find Tickets
Mesa, AZ Mesa Arts Center Tue Oct 22 / 13 Find Tickets
Basel Stadtcasino Festsaal Wed Nov 13 / 13 Find Tickets
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Geri Allen Biography

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Geri Allen (born June 12, 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Betty Carter, and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be her parents, Mount Vernell Allen Jr, and Barbara Jean Allen, and her primary musical influences to be, mentors Marcus Belgrave, Donald Waldon, and Betty Carter, as well as pianists, Herbie Hancock, Mary Lou Williams, Hank Jones, Alice Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Bud Powell and mentor, Dr. Billy Taylor. Allen is an Associate Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation in the School Of Music Theatre & Dance, at the University Of Michigan.

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Geri Allen Albums

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Flying Toward the Sound Album 2010-03-30 itunes amazon
Timeless Portraits and Dreams Album 2006 itunes amazon
The Life of a Song Album 2004-08-24 itunes amazon
Three Pianos for Jimi Album 1998-02-10 itunes amazon
The Montreal Tapes Live 1998-01-27 itunes amazon
The Gathering Album 1998 itunes amazon
Some Aspects of Water Album 1996 itunes amazon
Eyes... in the Back of Your Head Album 1996 itunes amazon
Maroons Album 1992 itunes amazon
The Nurturer Album 1991 itunes amazon
Segments Album 1989 itunes amazon
In the Year of the Dragon Album 1989 itunes amazon
Etudes Album 1988 itunes amazon
The Printmakers unknown   itunes amazon
The Gathering Album   itunes amazon
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