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Geri Allen is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. She is known for her work in the avant-garde, post-bop, and free jazz genres. She has released over 20 albums as a leader and has collaborated with many of the most prominent jazz musicians of her time. Allen was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit. She began playing piano at the age of three and was classically trained. She attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where she studied music theory and composition. She went on to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she studied with pianist and composer Dr. Billy Taylor. Allen has released over 20 albums as a leader, including The Gathering (Blue Note, 1998), The Life of a Song (Blue Note, 2004), and Grand River Crossings (Motema, 2011). She has also collaborated with many of the most prominent jazz musicians of her time, including Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, and Ron Carter. In addition to her musical career, Allen has been a professor at the University of Pittsburgh since 1997. She has also served as a visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory. Allen has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Doris Duke Artist Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She was also inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 2018.

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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 12 June, 1957
Birthday 12 June
Birthplace Pontiac, Michigan, U.S.
Date of death June 27, 2017,
Died Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2017

Allen died on June 27, 2017, two weeks after her 60th birthday, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after suffering from cancer.

2013

Allen was a longtime resident of Montclair, New Jersey. She became director of the jazz studies program at the University of Pittsburgh in 2013.

2006

In 2006, Allen composed "For the Healing of the Nations", a suite written in tribute to the victims and survivors of the September 11 attacks. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

1995

Allen married trumpeter Wallace Roney in 1995. They had a daughter and a son; the marriage ended in divorce. Allen was awarded the Jazzpar Prize in 1996. In the same year, she recorded two albums with Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum: Hidden Man and Sound Museum: Three Women.

1984

Allen became involved in the M-Base collective in New York. Her recording debut as a leader was in 1984, resulting in The Printmakers. This trio album, with bassist Anthony Cox and drummer Andrew Cyrille, also featured some of Allen's compositions.

1979

Allen graduated from Howard University's jazz studies program in 1979. She then continued her studies: with pianist Kenny Barron in New York; and at the University of Pittsburgh, where she completed a master's degree in ethnomusicology in 1982. After this, she returned to New York.

1957

Geri Antoinette Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and recording artist. In addition to her career as a performer and bandleader, Allen was an associate professor of music and the director of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Allen was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on June 12, 1957, and grew up in Detroit. "Her father, Mount Allen Jr, was a school principal, her mother, Barbara, a government administrator in the defence industry." Allen was educated in Detroit Public Schools. She started playing the piano at the age of 7, and settled on becoming a jazz pianist in her early teens.

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