Gaia (Marilyn Crispell album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Gaia
| type = studio
| artist = Marilyn Crispell
| cover = Gaia_Crispell_cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1988
| recorded = March 15, 1987
| venue =
| studio = Woodstock studio, Woodstock, New York
| genre = Jazz
| length = 39:40
| label = Leo
| producer = Leo Feigin
| chronology = Marilyn Crispell
| prev_title = Quartet Improvisations, Paris 1986
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = Labyrinths
| next_year = 1988
}}
Gaia is an album by American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell, which was recorded in 1987 and released on the English Leo label.[http://www.bb10k.com/CRISPELL.disc.html Marilyn Crispell Sessionography by Rick Lopez]
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz
|rev3 = Tom Hull – on the Web
}}
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..."{{cite web |url=http://www.leorecords.com/?m=select&id=CD_LR_152 |title=The Marilyn Crispell Trio: Gaia |website=Leo Records |access-date=March 6, 2022}}
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."{{allMusic|last=Jurek|first=Thom|class=album|id=mw0000108252|title=Marilyn Crispell – Labyrinths: Review|accessdate=April 9, 2015}}
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."{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD|url = https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook|url-access = registration|edition = 7th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2004|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 0141014164|pages = [https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook/page/374 374]}}
Track listing
All compositions by Marilyn Crispell
- "Gaia" – 39:40
Personnel
- Marilyn Crispell – piano, harp, percussion
- Reggie Workman - bass, drums, percussion
- Doug James - drums, percussion