Geechee Recollections
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{{Infobox album
| name = Geechee Recollections
| type = Album
| artist = Marion Brown
| cover = Geechee Recollections.jpg|border=yes
| alt =
| released = 1973
| recorded = June 4 & 5, 1973
Intermedia Sound, Boston
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 43:47
| label = Impulse!
| producer = Ed Michel
| chronology = Marion Brown
| prev_title = Duets
| prev_year = 1973
| next_title = Sweet Earth Flying
| next_year = 1974
}}
Geechee Recollections is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1973 and released on the Impulse! label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9200-series/#as-9252 Impulse! Records discography]. Accessed May 1, 2012 Along with Afternoon of a Georgia Faun and Sweet Earth Flying, it was one of Brown's albums dedicated to the US state of Georgia.{{cite web |last=Gotrich |first=Lars |date=October 19, 2010 |title=Georgia Recollections: Goodbye, Marion Brown |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2010/10/19/130669448/marion-brown?t=1584745204020 |website=npr.org |access-date=March 20, 2020}} The Geechee of the title are a distinct African-American cultural group living in costal regions of Georgia and North Carolina.
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
|rev2 = Tom Hull – on the Web
}}
The Allmusic reviewer Brian Olewnick awarded the album 4 stars, writing, "Brown receives excellent support by a strong ensemble including trumpeter Leo Smith and the great drummer Steve McCall. Brown, with his marvelously limpid tone on alto, is a joy to hear and seems more at home and relaxed here than on some of his more strident early records. Recommended".Olewnick, B. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/geechee-recollections-r135906 Allmusic review]. Accessed May 1, 2012 The New York Times described his trio of Georgia-related albums as "his most notable recordings".{{cite news |last=Keepnews |first=Peter |date=October 23, 2020 |title=Marion Brown, Free-Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 79 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/nyregion/24brown.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 20, 2020}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = All compositions by Marion Brown except as indicated
| title1 = Once upon a Time
| length1 = 6:27
| title2 = Karintha
| writer2 = Brown, Jean Toomer
| length2 = 9:27
| title3 = Buttermilk Bottom
| length3 = 6:44
| title4 = Introduction
| length4 = 1:19
| title5 = Tokalokaloka Part One
| length5 = 7:02
| title6 = Tokalokaloka Part Two
| length6 = 9:41
| title7 = Tokalokaloka Part Three
| length7 = 1:49
| title8 = Ending
| length8 = 1:18
| total_length = 43:46
}}
Personnel
- Marion Brown — alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, percussion
- Leo Smith — brass, strings, percussion
- William Malone — thumb piano, autoharp
- James Jefferson — double bass, cello, percussion
- Steve McCall — drums, percussion
- A. Kobena Adzenyah — drums, African percussion
- Jumma Santos — congas, miscellaneous instruments
- Bill Hasson — percussion, narration