Geechee Recollections Explained

Geechee Recollections
Type:Album
Artist:Marion Brown
Border:yes
Released:1973
Recorded:June 4 & 5, 1973
Intermedia Sound, Boston
Genre:Jazz
Length:43:47
Label:Impulse!
Producer:Ed Michel
Chronology:Marion Brown
Prev Title:Duets
Prev Year:1973
Next Title:Sweet Earth Flying
Next Year:1974

Geechee Recollections is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1973 and released on the Impulse! label.[1] Along with Afternoon of a Georgia Faun and Sweet Earth Flying, it was one of Brown's albums dedicated to the US state of Georgia.[2] The Geechee of the title are a distinct African-American cultural group living in costal regions of Georgia and North Carolina.

Reception

The Allmusic reviewer Brian Olewnick awarded the album 4 stars, writing, "Brown receives excellent support by a strong ensemble including trumpeter Leo Smith and the great drummer Steve McCall. Brown, with his marvelously limpid tone on alto, is a joy to hear and seems more at home and relaxed here than on some of his more strident early records. Recommended".[3] The New York Times described his trio of Georgia-related albums as "his most notable recordings".[4]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9200-series/#as-9252 Impulse! Records discography
  2. Web site: Gotrich . Lars . October 19, 2010 . Georgia Recollections: Goodbye, Marion Brown . npr.org . March 20, 2020.
  3. Olewnick, B. Allmusic review. Accessed May 1, 2012
  4. News: Keepnews . Peter . October 23, 2020 . Marion Brown, Free-Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 79 . . March 20, 2020.