{"id":31206,"date":"2017-06-28T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=31206"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:21:14","slug":"geri-allen-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/geri-allen-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Geri Allen In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31207\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/geri-allen-in-memoriam\/geri-allen_obituario_in-memoriam_ob_09_gr-lln-joan-cortes_donostia-2002\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Geri-Allen_Obituario_In-Memoriam_Ob_09_Gr-lln-\u00a9Joan-Cort\u00e8s_Donostia-2002.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Geri Allen_Obituario_In Memoriam_Ob_09_Gr lln (\u00a9Joan Cort\u00e8s)_Donostia 2002\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Geri-Allen_Obituario_In-Memoriam_Ob_09_Gr-lln-\u00a9Joan-Cort\u00e8s_Donostia-2002-400x600.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Geri-Allen_Obituario_In-Memoriam_Ob_09_Gr-lln-\u00a9Joan-Cort\u00e8s_Donostia-2002-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Geri-Allen_Obituario_In-Memoriam_Ob_09_Gr-lln-\u00a9Joan-Cort\u00e8s_Donostia-2002.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Geri-Allen_Obituario_In-Memoriam_Ob_09_Gr-lln-\u00a9Joan-Cort\u00e8s_Donostia-2002-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Geri-Allen_Obituario_In-Memoriam_Ob_09_Gr-lln-\u00a9Joan-Cort\u00e8s_Donostia-2002-37x55.jpg 37w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Marc Myers &#8211; Jazz Wax<\/strong>: Did you make a conscious decision to become an avant-garde pianist?<br \/>\n<strong>Geri Allen<\/strong>: I\u2019ve always felt that having my freedom in music was important. That\u2019s a part of my upbringing. I need to feel I can be versatile, to have the ability to move back and forth between different types of music. I\u2019m attracted to the music of a large variety of great musicians. Then I synthesize all of it in a way that retains my freedom and particular energy as an artist.<\/p>\n<p>Entrevista de <strong>Marc Myers &#8211; Jazz Wax<\/strong> a <strong>Geri Allen<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2012\/01\/interview-geri-allen-part-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2012\/01\/interview-geri-allen-part-1.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Geri Allen\u00a0<\/strong>(1957 &#8211; 2017) In Memoriam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Fotograf\u00eda<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a9 <strong>Joan Cort\u00e8s<\/strong>, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Myers &#8211; Jazz Wax: Did you make a conscious decision to become an avant-garde pianist? Geri Allen: I\u2019ve always felt that having my freedom in music was important. That\u2019s a part of my upbringing. I need to feel I can be versatile, to have the ability to move back<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/geri-allen-in-memoriam\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17853,78,15504,31927,9,15517,1038],"tags":[647,4851,13,12415,15295,19736,1041,15710,19737,16099,77,16100],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","post-31206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-joan-cortes","category-afondo","category-articulos-afondo","category-in-memoriam","category-perfiles","category-textos","category-contenidos","tag-geri-allen","tag-in-memoriam","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-en-espana","tag-jazz-en-espanol","tag-jazz-wax","tag-joan-cortes","tag-la-actualidad-del-jazz-en-espana","tag-marc-myers","tag-toma-jazz","tag-tomajazz","tag-tomajazz-toma-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1094,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/trio-3-irene-schweizer-berne-concert-trio-3-geri-allen-at-this-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":31206,"position":0},"title":"Trio 3 + Irene Schweizer &#8211; Berne Concert \/ Trio 3 + Geri Allen &#8211; At This Time","author":"Autor1","date":"17 mayo, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Composiciones: \"Flow\" (Lake), \"R.I. 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