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Sound Museum: Three Women is an album by the American jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman recorded in 1996 and released on the Harmolodic/Verve label. It is dedicated to Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell .
In the same year, she recorded two albums with Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum: Hidden Man and Sound Museum: Three Women. 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.
In 2008, Allen received the African American Classical Music Award from the Women of the New Jersey chapter of Spelman College as well as “A Salute to African-American Women: Phenomenal Woman” from the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Epsilon chapter at the University of Michigan.
Jun 28, 2017 · Geri Allen, a musically adventurous jazz pianist and bandleader who performed with the leading musicians of her time, from Ornette Coleman to Wayne Shorter, and who furthered the careers of...
Jun 27, 2017 · Allen's 1996 encounter with Ornette Coleman, documented on the albums Sound Museum: Hidden Man and Sound Museum: Three Women, stands out in part for its historical significance: this...
Jul 14, 2017 · Geri Allen was the humblest badass you were ever going to meet, a reserved soul who never failed to catch a fire on the piano, each time you saw her rock the ivories. Her passing on June 27th from liver cancer was a shock to several generations of contemporaries — fans and players alike.
Jun 3, 2010 · Ornette Coleman almost never plays with pianists, but on one of the few occasions when he did, he chose Allen to play along. (The resulting album, Sound Museum: Three Women, ranks among his half-dozen best.)
