Geri Allen: Eyes… in the back of Your Head

Pianist and composer Geri Allen is certainly one of the more distinguished musicians of her generation. The embodiment of an inside-out philosophy that finds her as comfortable searching new ground as she is trodding familiar firmament, her Blue Note stint (she recently signed with Verve) now finds her traveling from the standards trio project Twenty One, with Ron Carter and Tony Williams, to this session, where she is flying largely without a safety net.