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The performance capped the school's annual African-American Career Day that featured a performance by jazz pianist and composer Geri Allen. Allen led a special all-star group of musicians that played for nearly 500 students. The ensemble included Kenny...
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While Wilson’s current output has a definite mass appeal element to it, when she arrived on the New York scene in the mid-1980s she initially hooked up with M-Base Collective, a loose group of young African- American musicians, which included...
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The inspiration for Mosaic Project came at the 2007 Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel when Carrington performed in a quartet with Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma, pianist Geri Allen, and bassist Esperanza Spalding. I looked up on the stage and there were...
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The inspiration for "Mosaic Project" came at the 2007 Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel when Carrington performed in a quartet with Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma, pianist Geri Allen, and bassist Esperanza Spalding. "I looked up on the stage and there...
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The inspiration for "Mosaic Project" came at the 2007 Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel when Carrington performed in a quartet with Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma, pianist Geri Allen, and bassist Esperanza Spalding. "I looked up on the stage and there...
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The stars aligned and everybody was on board, so I was very fortunate." Included in that list of "friends" are some of the most prominent female jazz artists of the last few decades, including, besides Hendryx: Esperanza Spalding, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee...
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Spalding won the Grammy for Best New Artist last year. The jazz bassist also went to Berklee, and sings a song on Carrington’s “Mosaic Project.” Other contributors include Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nona Hendryx, Sheil E....
About Geri Allen
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Geri Allen (born June 12, 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is an American post bop jazz pianist, producer, and music educator from Detroit, Michigan, who has worked with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter, Mary Stallings, and Charles Lloyd. Full Article
