From Geri Allen's debut album, The Printmakers, this track shows the depth of her playing within a solo piano context. Through wild lush vamps and counterpoint, Allen's style can already be heard early in her career, at the age of 27 years old. Her playing was already harmonically dense and daring and was already deeply exploring rhythmic ostinatos that would seemingly interweave with the melody. Allen displays a great amount of dexterity and her incredible independence between both of her hands, showing incredible ease polyrhythmically. And within this extremely bare, revealing solo piano setting in which Geri Allen calmly plays expressively and goes above and beyond in her 1st album, which is just a testament to how great of a musician she was.

A very recent performance, 3 years before her death, Geri Allen's sophisticated harmonic and melodic inventiveness are displayed in a seemingly unusual group, with the great drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington, and tap dancer, Maurice Chestnut, as well as an unnamed bassist and drummer. The exploratory side of Allen is very explicit, going in between the avant-garde and the traditional blues. While bringing 2 seemingly distantly related ideas together, Allen's individuality and voice can be clearly heard, bridging these two things together. This is all done on a simple 12 bar blues in the key of F major. In my opinion, this video portrays one of Geri Allen's best performances and is exemplary to the many facets to her style of playing.