Eyes in the Back of Your Head
1997 studio album by Geri Allen
Eyes in the Back of Your Head | ||||
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Studio album by Geri Allen | ||||
Released | August 12, 1997 | |||
Recorded | December 14–15, 1995 & March 1, 1996 | |||
Studio | Clinton Recording Studios, NYC | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 54:51 | |||
Label | Blue Note CDP 8 38297 | |||
Producer | Geri Allen, Herb Jordan & Teo Macero | |||
Geri Allen chronology | ||||
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Eyes in the Back of Your Head is an album by the pianist Geri Allen, recorded in late 1995 and early 1996 and released on the Blue Note label.[1]
Reception
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AllMusic stated: "The music is mostly avant-garde, but purposeful and logical in its own fashion. Well worth several listens".[2] JazzTimes stated: "In conversation she's a thoroughly grounded woman, in music she brings that as well as a sense of storytelling and picture painting that never borders on the precious, and this recording is equal parts-pure Geri Allen, always rewarding".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated:
- "Mother Wit" - 3:05
- "New Eyes Opening" - 5:37
- "Vertical Flowing" (Geri Allen, Ornette Coleman) - 5:27
- "M.O.P.E." - 6:11
- "FMFMF (For My Family, for My Friends)" - 5:34
- "Dark Eyes" (Geri Allen, Wallace Roney) - 4:20
- "Little Waltz" (Ron Carter) - 6:11
- "In the Back of Your Head" (Allen, Roney) - 5:52
- "Windows to the Soul" - 5:11
- "The Eyes Have It" (Allen, Ornette Coleman) - 7:23
Personnel
- Geri Allen - piano, synthesizer
- Wallace Roney - trumpet (tracks 4, 6, 8 & 9)
- Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone (tracks 3 & 10)
- Cyro Baptista - percussion (tracks 1, 4 & 6)
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
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)
- A Lovesome Thing (2012)
- Expandable Language (1984)
- Otherside (1988)
- Talkin' Stick (1997)
- At This Time (2008)
- 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)