Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound – review

(Motema)With her recent Timeline Live album, the American pianist Geri Allen delivered a thrilling reminder of how exuberant and danceable contemporary jazz can be, in an unusual lineup galvanised by young New Jersey tapdancer Morris Chestnut. This album, a concert-length solo suite Allen composed for her Guggenheim Fellowship, is a more sober take on her work, though it emits its own kind of incandescence. Streams of luxurious melody jostle with a Cecil Taylorlike chordal angularity at the outs...

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