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Released
  
2010

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Producer
  
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Length
  
60:06

Release date
  
2010

Label
  
Motéma Music

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Recorded
  
December 18-20, 2008Klavierhaus, NYC

Flying Toward the Sound(2008)
  
Geri Allen & Timeline Live(2009)

Similar
  
Geri Allen albums, Jazz albums

Geri allen flying toward the sound


Flying Toward the Sound (subtitled A Solo Piano Excursion Inspired by Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock) is a solo album by pianist Geri Allen recorded in 2006 and released on the Motéma label in 2010.

Contents

Geri allen flying toward the sound


Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Flying Toward the Sound is a major work for solo piano: courageous, vulnerable, poetically articulated, and technically awe-inspiring in form and execution". The Guardian review by John Fordham awarded the album 3 stars noting "It's a specialised homage to pianists and pianos, but this is the work of a formidable virtuoso". PopMatters reviewer Will Layman said "I’d been thinking that Geri Allen had somehow gone flat in recent years, but I was wrong. She is just more catholic in the way she packages her intelligent, brave playing" JazzTimes stated " the ghost of each pianist’s influence inhabits the "Refractions" suite... Nonetheless, every note of music is unmistakably Allen: clear, carefully plotted (even in the tangles of notes that shape the title track), and part of a larger soundscape that’s as surreal as it is melodic". All About Jazz enthused "Jazz has been quoted as being "music that walks a tightrope without a net." Allen's Flying Toward the Sound effectively fits that description—daring, vulnerable, and breathtaking".

Track listing

All compositions by Geri Allen

  1. "Refraction I: Flying Toward the Sound" - 6:02
  2. "Refraction II: Red Velvet in Winter" - 5:56
  3. "Refraction III: Dancing Mystic Poets at Midnight" - 4:20
  4. "Refraction IV: God's Ancient Sky" - 16:03
  5. "Refraction V: Dancing Mystic Poets at Twylight" - 3:22
  6. "Refraction VI: Faith Carriers of Life" - 6:58
  7. "Refraction VII: Dancing Mystic Poets at Dawn" - 5:43
  8. "Refraction VIII: Flying Toward the Sound (Reprise)" - 6:53
  9. "Your Pure Self (Mother to Son)" - 5:07
  10. Video 1: "Flying Toward the Sound" - 4:08
  11. Video 2: "Red Velvet in Winter" - 4:03
  12. Video 3: "Faith Carriers of Life" - 4:40

Personnel

  • Geri Allen - piano
  • Songs

    1Flying Toward the Sound6:04
    2Red Velvet in Winter5:56
    3Dancing Mystic Poets at Midnight4:25

    References

    Flying Toward the Sound Wikipedia


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