Gaia (Marilyn Crispell album)

Gaia is an album by American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell, which was recorded in 1987 and released on the English Leo label.[1]

Gaia
Studio album by
Marilyn Crispell
Released1988
RecordedMarch 15, 1987
StudioWoodstock studio, Woodstock, New York
GenreJazz
Length39:40
LabelLeo
ProducerLeo Feigin
Marilyn Crispell chronology
Quartet Improvisations, Paris 1986
(1987)		 Gaia
(1988)		 Labyrinths
(1988)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
Tom Hull – on the WebA–[4]

The Wire's 1988 critics poll listed Gaia as one of the best albums of that year. The editors wrote: "Named for the Greek Goddess of the Earth, GAIA affirms the power of the life-force in fierce, joyous music that is both sexual and spiritual..."[5]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Gaia is too fragmented to be marketed as a single work, its editing is sloppy and incoherent, and the improvising here - by a trio that would later stun live audiences with its empathy and near telepathic communication - is too stilted and rudimentary."[2]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz says that "Gaia is one of the finest composition/improvisation records of the '80s, a hymn to the planet that is neither mawkish nor sentimental, but tough-minded, coherent and entire."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Marilyn Crispell

  1. "Gaia" – 39:40

Personnel

References
  1. Marilyn Crispell Sessionography by Rick Lopez
  2. Jurek, Thom. Marilyn Crispell – Labyrinths: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2004). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 374. ISBN 0141014164.
  4. Hull, Tom. "Marilyn Crispell". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  5. "The Marilyn Crispell Trio: Gaia". Leo Records. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
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