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Jazz Poetry Month: Yoko Suzuki Quartet "the Music Of Geri Allen" at City Of Asylum @ Alphabet City
Courtesy of Nada Wheelock | Posted on September 10, 2020
When
Thu, September 24, 2020
7:00 pm
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Geri Allen is remembered as one of the most important musicians of our time because of the intricacy of her jazz compositions. During her 35 year career, Geri composed over 100 songs, many of them so highly complex in melody, harmony, and rhythm that musicians do not typically attempt to play them live; it takes multiple players to recreate songs that Allen played on her own. This concert is the first in a series of Geri Allen performances by Yoko Suzuki, a former student and colleague of Geri Allen’s. Yoko has created new arrangements of Geri’s work in collaboration with local musicians. ...