Gaia (Marilyn Crispell album)

Gaia
Studio album by Marilyn Crispell
Released 1988
Recorded March 15, 1987
Woodstock studio, Woodstock, New York
Genre Jazz
Length 39:40
Label Leo
Producer Leo Feigin
Marilyn Crispell chronology
Quartet Improvisations, Paris 1986
(1987)
Gaia
(1988)
Labyrinths
(1988)

Gaia is an album by American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell, which was recorded in 1987 and released on the English Leo label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Gaia is too fragmented to be marketed as a single work, its editing is sloppy and incoherent, and the improvising here - by a trio that would later stun live audiences with its empathy and near telepathic communication - is too stilted and rudimentary."[2]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz says that "Gaia is one of the finest composition/improvisation records of the '80s, a hymn to the planet that is neither mawkish nor sentimental, but tough-minded, coherent and entire."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Marilyn Crispell

  1. "Gaia" – 39:40

Personnel

References

  1. Marilyn Crispell Sessionography by Rick Lopez
  2. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Marilyn Crispell – Labyrinths: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2004). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 374. ISBN 0141014164.
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