Twenty One (Geri Allen album)

Twenty One is an album by pianist Geri Allen with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams recorded in 1994 and released on the Blue Note label.^[1] The title of the album refers to the commitment Allen made at age 21 to continue and extend the tradition of the jazz masters.^[2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]

AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars, stating, " Allen's style is fairly original, with hints of Herbie Nichols, and her chancetaking but logical solos are generally quite stimulating".^[3]

Writer Gary Giddins called the album "a display of strength" and "a mature work by a performer... who was repositioning herself as a jazz centrist."^[4] He commented: "This is a trio fearsomely alive... The triumph of Twenty One is in the certainty with which Allen's individuality asserts itself in a setting that might have neutralized her."^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated

"RTG" - 2:46
"If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 4:36
"Drummer's Song" - 3:52
"Introspection/Thelonious" (Thelonious Monk) - 4:36
"A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) - 3:23
"In the Morning" - 6:10
"Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) - 3:18
"Lullaby of the Leaves" (Bernice Petkere, Joe Young) - 5:15
"Feed the Fire" - 6:17
"Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) - 6:18
"A Place of Power" - 3:16
"In the Middle" - 4:25

Personnel

References

^ Geri Allen catalog, accessed July 1, 2014
^ Giddins, Gary (1998). Visions of Jazz : The First Century. Oxford University Press. p. 620.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 1, 2014
^ Giddins, Gary (1998). Visions of Jazz : The First Century. Oxford University Press. p. 618.
^ Giddins, Gary (1998). Visions of Jazz : The First Century. Oxford University Press. p. 622.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
Albums as leader or co-leader	The Printmakers (1984) Home Grown (1985) Open on All Sides in the Middle (1986) In the Year of the Dragon (1989) Segments (1989) Twylight (1989) Live at the Village Vanguard (1990) The Nurturer (1990) Maroons (1992) Twenty One (1994) Eyes in the Back of Your Head (1995–96) Some Aspects of Water (1996) The Gathering (1998) The Life of a Song (2004) Timeless Portraits and Dreams (2006) Flying Toward the Sound (2008) Geri Allen & Timeline Live (2009) A Child Is Born (2011) Grand River Crossings (2012)
With Oliver Lake	Expandable Language (1984) Otherside (1988) Talkin' Stick (1997) At This Time (2008)
With others	Movies (Franco Ambrosetti, 1986) Movies Too (Franco Ambrosetti, 1988) The Collective (Cecil Brooks III, 1989) Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1989) Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990) Feed the Fire (Betty Carter, 1993) Sound Museum: Hidden Man (Ornette Coleman, 1996) Sound Museum: Three Women (Ornette Coleman, 1996) Motherland Pulse (Steve Coleman, 1985) Flute Talk (Buddy Collette, 1988) Etudes (Charlie Haden, 1987) The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (Charlie Haden, 1989) The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (Charlie Haden, 1989) Reflections in Change (Craig Handy, 1999) Lift Every Voice (Charles Lloyd, 2002) Jumping the Creek (Charles Lloyd, 2004) Decision in Paradise (Frank Lowe, 1984) Monk in Motian (Paul Motian, 1988) Mindgames (Greg Osby, 1988) Living on the Edge (Dewey Redman, 1989) Crunchin' (Wallace Roney, 1993) Munchin' (Wallace Roney, 1993) Bemsha Swing (Woody Shaw, 1986) By Any Means Necessary (Gary Thomas, 1989)

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