{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Geechee Recollections | type = Album | artist = Marion Brown | cover = Geechee Recollections.jpg|border=yes | alt = | released = 1973 | recorded = June 4 & 5, 1973<br><small>Intermedia Sound, Boston</small> | 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.<ref name="Impulse! Records discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9200-series/#as-9252 Impulse! Records discography]. Accessed May 1, 2012</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = Tom Hull – on the Web |rev2Score = B+<ref>{{cite web |last=Hull |first=Tom |url=https://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/shop/jazz-60s.html |title=Jazz (1960–70s) (Reference) |website=Tom Hull – on the Web |accessdate=April 21, 2023}}</ref> }} 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".<ref name="Allmusic">Olewnick, B. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/geechee-recollections-r135906 ''Allmusic'' review]. Accessed May 1, 2012</ref> ''The New York Times'' described his trio of Georgia-related albums as "his most notable recordings".<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==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
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Category:Impulse! Records albums Category:Marion Brown albums Category:1973 albums