Twenty One (Geri Allen album)

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Twenty One
File:Twenty One (Geri Allen album).jpg
Studio album by Geri Allen
Released 1994
Recorded March 23 & 24, 1994
Manhattan Center Studios, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length 54:18
Label Blue Note CDP 8 30028
Producer Herb Jordan & Teo Macero
Geri Allen chronology
Maroons
(1992)Maroons1992		 Twenty One
(1994)		 Eyes in the Back of Your Head
(1996)Eyes in the Back of Your Head1996

Twenty One is an album by pianist Geri Allen with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams recorded in 1994 and released on the Blue Note label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[2]

Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars stating " Allen's style is fairly original, with hints of Herbie Nichols, and her chancetaking but logical solos are generally quite stimulating".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated

  1. "RTG" - 2:46
  2. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 4:36
  3. "Drummer's Song" - 3:52
  4. "Introspection/Thelonious" (Thelonious Monk) - 4:36
  5. "A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) - 3:23
  6. "In the Morning" - 6:10
  7. "Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) - 3:18
  8. "Lullaby of the Leaves" (Bernice Petkere, Joe Young) - 5:15
  9. "Feed the Fire" - 6:17
  10. "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) - 6:18
  11. "A Place of Power" - 3:16
  12. "In the Middle" - 4:25

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Geri Allen catalog, accessed July 1, 2014
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 1, 2014
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