''The Nurturer'' is an album by pianist Geri Allen recorded in 1990 and released on the Blue Note label.Geri Allen catalog
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Reception

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awarded the album 4½ stars, calling it "A fine example of Geri Allen's advanced music (which holds on to tradition without merely recreating the past)".Yanow, S.
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'' wrote: "With ''The Nurturer'', Allen develops her interest in structures, the shape and resonance of compositions, as opposed to straightforward soloing on themes. The arrangements are watertight and quite ambitious... Strongly recommended."

Track listing

''All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated'' # "Night's Shadow" (Eli Fountain) - 8:26 # "No. 3" (Lawrence Williams) - 8:17 # "It's Good To Be Home Again" (Williams) - 4:32 # "Batista's Groove" (Marcus Belgrave) - 5:24 # "Night of Power (For My Daughter Laila)" - 2:19 # "Our Gang" (Robert Hurst) - 5:38 # "Silence and Song/The Nurturer" - 9:51 # "Le Goo Wop" - 1:48 # "Lullaby of Isfahn" (Kenny Garrett) - 6:41

Personnel

* Geri Allen -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

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alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

* Robert Hurst -

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* Jeff "Tain" Watts -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Eli Fountain -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nurturer, The 1991 albums Geri Allen albums Blue Note Records albums Instrumental albums