Home Grown (Geri Allen album)

Home Grown
Home Grown
Studio album by Geri Allen
Released	1985
Recorded	January 1985; Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, West Germany,
Genre	Jazz
Label	Minor Music MM 004
Producer	Stephan Meyner
Geri Allen chronology

Home Grown is an album by pianist Geri Allen recorded in West Germany in early 1985 and released on the German Minor Music label.^[1]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars calling it "A fine early set".^[2]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated

"Mama's Babies" - 5:31
"Bemsha Swing" (Denzil Best, Thelonious Monk) - 2:50
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" - 8:31
"First Black Man ... M.O.P.E." - 3:59
"'Round Midnight" (Monk) - 6:09
"Blue" - 3:17
"Alone Together" - 7:34
"Home Grown" - 5:23

Personnel[]

Geri Allen - piano

References[]

^ Geri Allen catalog, accessed July 3, 2014
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014

[1] Geri Allen catalog, accessed July 3, 2014

[Allmusic-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
Albums as leader 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)
With Oliver Lake	Expandable Language (1984) Otherside (1988) Talkin' Stick (1997) At This Time (2008)
With others	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)