The Jazz Organ Scene
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Geri Allen
Composer and pianist Geri Allen began music lessons at age seven.
After receiving a bachelor's degree in jazz studies from Howard University,
she moved to New York in 1982. Her background includes work in an early
edition of the funk-metal band Living Colour and as a jazz sideman with Oliver Lake,
Frank Lowe, Steve Coleman, and Ralph Peterson.
Her album "The Nurturer" is a tribute to her high school mentor Marcus Belgrave and contains original compositions that incorporate African rhythms.In 1991, she composed a musical theater piece about homelessness and the environment commissioned by American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia and cut an album of Jimmy Hendrix music recast for three pianos. |
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