Since the release of Printmakers, her first album in 1984, Geri Allen’s career, has been one of fusion and collaboration – fusion of a whole variety of music interests, from Debussy to Motown, and collaboration with many of the jazz greats.
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Associate Professor of Jazz and Improvisation Studies
Professor Allen, a Detroit native, began piano lessons at age seven and continued for ten years. One of many important jazz pianists to emerge from that city's fertile music scene, Ms. Allen attended the famous magnet music school, Cass Technical High School. Ms. Allen came to the School of Music after spending time living and working in New York City.
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Pianist. When Geri Allen won the Danish Jazzpar prize in 1996, it was an international recognition of her exceptional skills as a pianist and composer. Although she had grown up in Detroit during the Motown era, she learned much from the city's jazz community, especially veteran trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, and this experience put her on track for a distinguished academic career at Washington's Howard University.
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