| Experience | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | Jodie Christian |
| Cover: | Jodie_Christian_Experience.jpg |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Recorded: | May 1991; February 1992 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 59:05 |
| Label: | Delmark DD-454 |
| Chronology: | Jodie Christian |
| Next Title: | Rain or Shine |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Experience is the debut album by pianist Jodie Christian, released in 1992 by Delmark Records. It features six solo piano tracks, plus four on which Christian is joined by bassist Larry Gray and drummer Vincent Davis.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
John Litweiler of the Chicago Reader commented: "Christian's bop melodies, with bubbling vitality and attendant subtle harmonies and without distracting flourishes or the idiom's typical nervous qualities, are lyric music with a crystal touch."[6]
In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow described Christian as "a flexible pianist able to play anything from bebop to fairly free jazz," and wrote: "Christian mostly sticks to the modern mainstream and he sounds quite fine throughout this largely melodic set." The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated: "Christian's decisive touch and complex but clear voicings bespeak a talent that has absorbed everything it needs from the tradition. Gray and Davis help out assiduously."