Geri Allen, a jazz pianist and composer with a deeply personal approach to standards and original works who explored a lyrical and tender side of the avant-garde, died on June 27 of cancer. She was 60. [Photo above courtesy of Geri Allen]
Early in her career in the 1980s, Geri recorded extensively with saxophonist Oliver Lake and with bassist Charlie Had…
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