The Geri Allen Trio
Live at The Village Vanguard
New York, NY USA
2011-09-07

Part of the "Live at The Village Vanguard" series, hosted by
Josh Jackson. As broadcast by 88.3 WBGO-FM, Newark, NJ USA.

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Track List:

01 - Intro (1:45)
02 - Tears Of A Clown (Wonder/Robinson) (5:45)
03 - GW (Dolphy) (7:14)
04 - A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing (Strayhorn) (6:09)
05 - Flower Of May -> Unconditional Love (Allen) (6:33)
06 - Goldaze (Watts) (6:56)
07 - Drummer's Song (Allen) (7:24)
08 - Elviry (Davis) (5:47)
09 - Joe Btfsplk (Byron) (9:08)
10 - Lucky To Be Me (Bernstein) (7:20)
11 - Our Lady (Allen) (12:32)
12 - Outro By Josh Jackson (1:03)

Total Running Time: 77:42


Personnel:
Geri Allen - piano
Kenny Davis - bass
Jeff "Tain" Watts - drums


Live at the Village Vanguard broadcast info:
from WBGO-FM and NPR music
Josh Jackson - producer and host
David Tallacksen - mix engineer
Michael Downes - assistant
Lara Pellegrinelli - moderator
Patrick Jarenwattananon - web producer
Thurston Briscoe (WBGO) Ana Grunman (NPR Music) - executive producers
Lorraine Gordon - proprietor of The Village Vanguard

The Village Vanguard info:
http://villagevanguard.com/

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From the NPR info page:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/31/140086797/
geri-allen-trio-live-at-the-village-vanguard

September 7, 2011

For some, jazz is a form of music defined by innovation. It's a
language of hybrid invention, about a relentless quest for a new style,
a new movement, a new expression. Alternately, there's a powerful
argument for jazz as a tradition: a language of core values, worthy of a
lifetime of respectful study, representative of a century of
African-American cultural achievement. As the prevailing aesthetic
outlook has it, both are equally valid; jazz is tradition and innovation,
at once.

Over the last 30 years, it's hard to think of anyone who embodies this
duality better than composer and pianist Geri Allen. As often as she's
been lionized for the freshness of her playing, she's also been admired
for the respect she's shown for its living history. WBGO and NPR Music
featured the Geri Allen Trio in the Live at the Village Vanguard series
of live on-air radio/online video broadcasts on Wednesday, Sept. 7.

Allen is known for her immense musical vocabulary. A recent example:
In 2010, she released two distinct albums. One was the enveloping solo
piano record Flying Toward the Sound, a suite of original, somewhat
abstract works inspired by Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor.
The other was Geri Allen and Timeline Live, a quartet recording with a
new twist which is actually an old one: One band member is a percussive
tap dancer. Her bassist for this trio hit, Kenny Davis, serves as
lieutenant in several of her bands, including Timeline. And drummer
Jeff "Tain" Watts played with Allen even before he played on breakout
recordings with Wynton and Branford Marsalis.

Like many successful musicians from Detroit, Allen was mentored by
trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, and attended Cass Technical High School,
the city's magnet institution for performing arts. She also did some
study in Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, but her career as a performer
took off when she moved to New York. That's where she began to attract
the attention of peers and elders alike: Her C.V. includes work with
Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter, Paul Motian and Charlie Haden, Charles
Lloyd, Mary Wilson of The Supremes, members of the Black Rock Coalition
and many of the players who helped develop the M-Base philosophy.

Now 54, Allen has put together a discography nearing 20 records as a
leader alone, and she is currently a professor at the University of
Michigan. But she still tours often, and the Village Vanguard is a
regular destination for her. She cut a live trio record there in
December 1990, which means she's been playing the downtown Manhattan
club for at least 20 years.

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