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Geeta (album)

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Released
  
1973

Length
  
39:47

Producer
  
Charles Lloyd

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
A&M

Recorded
  
1973, at Malibu Road and A&M Studios

Geeta is the fifteenth studio album by jazz saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd. It was released by A&M Records as album SP 3046.

Contents

Reception

Billboard's 1973 review commented that "The fading Indian musical influence blending cogently with free flowing modern jazz is the end result here", and suggested that the second side was the more commercial.

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Lloyd except as indicated
  • Side A
    1. "Geeta Suite" – 13:30
      1. "Arjuna (Tender Warrior)"
      2. "Song of Brindavan"
    2. "Dance of the Gopis" – 6:25
  • Side B
    1. "Stones Medley" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 11:08
      1. "Backstreet Girl"
      2. "Lady Jane"
      3. "Mother's Little Helper"
    2. "Maxfield" – 4:30
    3. "Jungle Blues" – 2:12
    4. "Berries" – 2:02

    Sources:

    Personnel

  • Flute, tenor saxophone – Charles Lloyd
  • Guitar – DeWayne "Blackbird" McKnight
  • Bass – Baba Alade
  • Dholak – Aashish Khan, Planish Khan

    • Production

  • Art direction - Roland Young
  • Cover art - Masami Teraoka
  • Album design - Chuck Beeson

    • Source:

    References

    Geeta (album) Wikipedia
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