Home Grown (Geri Allen album)
1985 studio album by Geri Allen
Home Grown | ||||
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Studio album by Geri Allen | ||||
Released | 1985 | |||
Recorded | January 1985 | |||
Studio | Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, West Germany | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Minor Music MM 004 | |||
Producer | Stephan Meyner | |||
Geri Allen chronology | ||||
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Home Grown is an album by pianist Geri Allen recorded in West Germany in early 1985 and released on the German Minor Music label.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars calling it "A fine early set".[2]
A writer for Billboard stated: "Solo set for this adventurous pianist showcases her mercurial style as both composer and player, characterized by an interplay of staccato single note fragments and dense chordal work... For the adventurous."[3]
Vijay Iyer recalled playing the album for Jason Moran, who had never heard it before, in late 1999. According to Iyer, Moran was "floored," and immediately asked to borrow it.[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated
- "Mama's Babies" - 5:31
- "Bemsha Swing" (Denzil Best, Thelonious Monk) - 2:50
- "No More Mr. Nice Guy" - 8:31
- "First Black Man ... M.O.P.E." - 3:59
- "'Round Midnight" (Monk) - 6:09
- "Blue" - 3:17
- "Alone Together" - 7:34
- "Home Grown" - 5:23
Personnel
- Geri Allen - piano
References
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Geri Allen
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
or co-leader
- The Printmakers (1984)
- Home Grown (1985)
- Open on All Sides in the Middle (1986)
- In the Year of the Dragon (1989)
- Segments (1989)
- Twylight (1989)
- Live at the Village Vanguard (1990)
- The Nurturer (1990)
- Maroons (1992)
- Twenty One (1994)
- Eyes in the Back of Your Head (1995–96)
- Some Aspects of Water (1996)
- The Gathering (1998)
- The Life of a Song (2004)
- Timeless Portraits and Dreams (2006)
- Flying Toward the Sound (2008)
- Geri Allen & Timeline Live (2009)
- A Child Is Born (2011)
- Grand River Crossings (2012)
- A Lovesome Thing (2012)
- Expandable Language (1984)
- Otherside (1988)
- Talkin' Stick (1997)
- At This Time (2008)
- Movies (Franco Ambrosetti, 1986)
- Movies Too (Franco Ambrosetti, 1988)
- The Collective (Cecil Brooks III, 1989)
- Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1989)
- Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990)
- Feed the Fire (Betty Carter, 1993)
- Sound Museum: Hidden Man (Ornette Coleman, 1996)
- Sound Museum: Three Women (Ornette Coleman, 1996)
- Motherland Pulse (Steve Coleman, 1985)
- Flute Talk (Buddy Collette, 1988)
- Etudes (Charlie Haden, 1987)
- The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (Charlie Haden, 1989)
- The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (Charlie Haden, 1989)
- Reflections in Change (Craig Handy, 1999)
- Lift Every Voice (Charles Lloyd, 2002)
- Jumping the Creek (Charles Lloyd, 2004)
- Decision in Paradise (Frank Lowe, 1984)
- Monk in Motian (Paul Motian, 1988)
- Mindgames (Greg Osby, 1988)
- Living on the Edge (Dewey Redman, 1989)
- Crunchin' (Wallace Roney, 1993)
- Munchin' (Wallace Roney, 1993)
- Bemsha Swing (Woody Shaw, 1986)
- By Any Means Necessary (Gary Thomas, 1989)