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...Spice Girls' career has the happy-go-lucky trajectory of a Mentos commercial. Geri (Halliwell), the two Melanies (Brown and Chisholm) and Victoria (Aadams) came together in 1993 after answering a newspaper ad for singers and dancers to form a new pop group. They soon fell out with their manager, set off on their own and recruited Emma (Bunton). The five started singing (often uninvited) at parties, record-company offices, anywhere they could get noticed. They eventually hired manager Simon Fuller--the man behind Annie Lennox--who signed them with Virgin Records...
Allen was the pianist on a live date recorded with vocalist Betty Carter that was released on Verve this summer. The album, Feed the Fire, is titled after a Geri Allen composition--a rare sign of tribute from Dame Carter, who is widely known as one of the toughest and most critical taskmasters in jazz. Carter's tyrannical ways were amply demonstrated in her own appearance at the Regattabar last year, when she lambasted her bass player on stage for not getting the changes right. Unlike the poor bassist, Allen was not cowed by Carter's aggressiveness. The level...
...triumphant year for jazz pianist Geri Allen. With her presence on two critically acclaimed albums, Allen showed the world that she can play in the company of jazz's most musically intimidating performers and still emerge with her brilliance untarnished...
Conveying images of the modern African-American experience through music is an idea as old as jazz itself. Recent years have seen a diminishing of the cold, hard appraisal of reality that marked the work of such greats as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Jackie McLean. Geri Allen continues and updates this tradition of combining passionate music with commentary on the world around...
Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, Harvard Square, Cambridge, 937-4020. The John Abercrombie Trio on Thursday, March 17 and Friday, March 18. The Geri Allen/Wallace Roney Quartet on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20. The New Black Eagle Jazz Band with Butch Thompson at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March...