Geechee Recollections

by Marion Brown

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:47
  • Community rating: 3.37/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The innovative alto saxophonist channeled the deep cultural heritage of the Gullah-Geechee people of the American South for this evocative, spiritually charged session. The compositions blend intense, avant-garde free jazz improvisation with spoken-word poetry and traditional African-American folk motifs, creating a deeply rooted yet highly experimental atmosphere. It stands as a vital, conceptually profound document of the 1970s Black creative music movement.

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Tracklist

  1. Once Upon A Time (A Children's Tale) (6:27)
  2. Karintha (9:27)
  3. Buttermilk Bottom (6:44)
  4. Introduction (1:19)
  5. Tokalokaloka Part One (7:02)
  6. Tokalokaloka Part Two (9:41)
  7. Tokalokaloka Part Three (1:49)
  8. Ending (1:18)

Credits

  • Marion Brown - primary artist, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, percussion, composed by, soloist [solo improvisation]
  • James Jefferson - bass, cello, percussion
  • Wadada Leo Smith - brass, strings, percussion, composed by, soloist [solo improvisation]
  • Jumma Santos - congas, instruments [miscellaneous]
  • Steve McCall - drums, percussion
  • William Malone - mbira [thumb piano], autoharp, percussion [axatse]
  • Bill Hasson - narrator, percussion
  • A. Kobena Adzenyah - percussion [soge, kidi, kaganu, axatse, gankogui, toke, apentemba, apenten, dawure, nnawunta, donne], idiophone [gyilla]

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