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Gaia (Marilyn Crispell album)

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Gaia
Studio album by
Released1988
RecordedMarch 15, 1987
StudioWoodstock studio, Woodstock, New York
GenreJazz
Length39:40
LabelLeo
ProducerLeo 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

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
Tom Hull – on the WebA−[4]

The Wire's 1988 critics poll listed Gaia as one of the best albums of that year. The editors wrote: "Named for the Greek Goddess of the Earth, GAIA affirms the power of the life-force in fierce, joyous music that is both sexual and spiritual..."[5]

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

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All compositions by Marilyn Crispell

  1. "Gaia" – 39:40

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Marilyn Crispell Sessionography by Rick Lopez
  2. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Marilyn Crispell – Labyrinths: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2004). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 374. ISBN 0141014164.
  4. ^ Hull, Tom. "Marilyn Crispell". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  5. ^ "The Marilyn Crispell Trio: Gaia". Leo Records. Retrieved March 6, 2022.