Live at the Village Vanguard (Geri Allen album)

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Live at the Village Vanguard
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Live album by
ReleasedMay 1991
RecordedDecember 21–22, 1990
Venue Village Vanguard, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length46:25
Label DIW DIW-847
Producer Geri Allen, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian & Kazunori Sugiyama
Geri Allen chronology
The Nurturer
(1990)
Live at the Village Vanguard
(1991)
Maroons
(1991)
Charlie Haden chronology
Dream Keeper
(1990)
Live at the Village Vanguard
(1991)
First Song
(1992)

Live at the Village Vanguard is a live album by pianist Geri Allen, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian. It was recorded in 1990 at the Village Vanguard and released on the Japanese DIW label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "Live at the Village Vanguard is a good CD musically, but there's not much jump-up factor here -- it's moody and very bluesy in feeling if not actual form, almost like chamber jazz at times. The very compressed, muted recorded sound doesn't alleviate the somber aspect of the listening experience any, but jazz is about capturing the moment. And those were the moments, emotional and musical, caught by these three master musicians on those two December nights". [2]

The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 4 stars, and wrote: "Live is both accessible and inexhaustible, making its appeal at all sorts of unexpected levels... Even allowing for the head start of Keith Jarrett's 'Standards' trio, this is probably the best piano-led group currently working." [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated

  1. "A Prayer for Peace" – 6:32
  2. "Obtuse Angles" – 6:07
  3. "It Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago" (Paul Motian) - 7:11
  4. "For Turiya" (Charlie Haden) - 1:01
  5. "Fiasco" (Motian) - 8:23
  6. "In the Year of the Dragon" (Motian) - 7:41
  7. "Vanguard Blues" (Haden) - 7:43
  8. "Mumbo Jumbo" (Motian) - 9:28
  9. "Song for the Whales" (Haden) - 7:59

Personnel

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References

  1. Geri Allen catalog, accessed June 30, 2014
  2. 1 2 Snowden, D., Allmusic Review accessed June 30, 2014
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette. Penguin Books. p. 20.