Geri Allen

[cayetano]

It's 1997, I saw the same trio in Vitoria.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

On 3/12/2026 at 10:42 AM, Late said:

From 2013:

2 hours ago, Pim said:

Thanks for posting that 2013 video. Great to see those woman play together! Definitely something I would like to have seen live.

I was at this show. It was great. I was able to sit right up in front of Geri Allen at the piano. There are other videos of that show on YouTube but they appear to have been posted by someone who had a thing for Esperanza.

The trio was scheduled to return a year later but Geri passed unexpectedly before the show. They brought in Nicholas Payton to sit in the keyboard chair. That show was also very good. It was more of a Geri Allen tribute, so the mood was very different.

[Ken Dryden]

I saw Geri Allen leading a trio at the Village Vanguard in October 1998 and at the Atlanta Jazz Festival as part of a Detroit All-Star Ensemble, year unknown.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I was lucky to see Geri perform many times over the years. Phenomenal player. She wasn't much older than me, so I was just as shocked as everyone when she passed away. Cancer sucks.

[optatio]

Saw her in Kassel, Germany, October 12, 2002

[Stompin at the Savoy]

 

[kh1958]

I believe I saw her five times; each time being strikingly different:

1. With Chico Freeman, Andrew Cyrille and Richard Davis.

2. A piano trio but with a tap dancer added.

3. As the pianist in a group led by Wallace Roney (also with James Spaulding).

4. Trio with David Murray and Terri Lynne Carrington.

4. The last time, about a year before she died, at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, in a two piano band (with Christian Sands), also including Russell Malone on guitar, for an Errol Garner tribute. George Wein was also in the audience.

[Simon8]

19 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

 

👍👍  (love that record)