Home Grown (Geri Allen album)

Home Grown is an album by pianist Geri Allen recorded in West Germany in early 1985 and released on the German Minor Music label.[1]

Home Grown
Studio album by
Geri Allen
Released1985
RecordedJanuary 1985
StudioTonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, West Germany
GenreJazz
LabelMinor Music MM 004
ProducerStephan Meyner
Geri Allen chronology
The Printmakers
(1984)		 Home Grown
(1985)		 Open on All Sides in the Middle
(1986)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars calling it "A fine early set".[2]

A writer for Billboard stated: "Solo set for this adventurous pianist showcases her mercurial style as both composer and player, characterized by an interplay of staccato single note fragments and dense chordal work... For the adventurous."[3]

Vijay Iyer recalled playing the album for Jason Moran, who had never heard it before, in late 1999. According to Iyer, Moran was "floored," and immediately asked to borrow it.[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated

  1. "Mama's Babies" - 5:31
  2. "Bemsha Swing" (Denzil Best, Thelonious Monk) - 2:50
  3. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" - 8:31
  4. "First Black Man ... M.O.P.E." - 3:59
  5. "'Round Midnight" (Monk) - 6:09
  6. "Blue" - 3:17
  7. "Alone Together" - 7:34
  8. "Home Grown" - 5:23

Personnel

References
  1. Geri Allen catalog, accessed July 3, 2014
  2. Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014
  3. "Reviews". Billboard. December 28, 1985. p. 80.
  4. Beuttler, Bill (2019). Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century. Lever Press. p. 60.
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