# Geechee Recollections

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Geechee Recollections
| type       = Album
| artist     = [Marion Brown](/source/Marion_Brown)
| cover      = Geechee Recollections.jpg|border=yes
| alt        =
| released   = 1973
| recorded   = June 4 & 5, 1973<br><small>Intermedia Sound, [Boston](/source/Boston)</small>
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Jazz](/source/Jazz)
| length     = 43:47
| label      = [Impulse!](/source/Impulse!_Records)
| producer   = Ed Michel
| chronology = [Marion Brown](/source/Marion_Brown)
| prev_title = [Duets](/source/Duets_(Marion_Brown_album))
| prev_year  = 1973
| next_title = [Sweet Earth Flying](/source/Sweet_Earth_Flying)
| next_year  = 1974
}}
'''''Geechee Recollections''''' is an album by the American jazz saxophonist [Marion Brown](/source/Marion_Brown) recorded in 1973 and released on the [Impulse!](/source/Impulse!_Records) 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](/source/Afternoon_of_a_Georgia_Faun)'' and ''[Sweet Earth Flying](/source/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](/source/Gullah) of the title are a distinct African-American cultural group living in costal regions of Georgia and North Carolina.

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = ''[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)''
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
|rev2 = [Tom Hull – on the Web](/source/Tom_Hull_%E2%80%93_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Marion_Brown) &mdash; [alto saxophone](/source/alto_saxophone), [soprano saxophone](/source/soprano_saxophone), [clarinet](/source/clarinet), [percussion](/source/percussion) 
* [Leo Smith](/source/Wadada_Leo_Smith) &mdash; [brass](/source/Brass_instrument), [strings](/source/String_instrument), percussion
* William Malone &mdash; [thumb piano](/source/thumb_piano), [autoharp](/source/autoharp)
* James Jefferson &mdash; [double bass](/source/double_bass), [cello](/source/cello), percussion
* [Steve McCall](/source/Steve_McCall_(drummer)) &mdash; [drums](/source/drum_kit), percussion
* [A. Kobena Adzenyah](/source/Abraham_Kobena_Adzenyah) &mdash; drums, African percussion
* [Jumma Santos](/source/Juma_Santos) &mdash; [congas](/source/congas), miscellaneous instruments
* Bill Hasson &mdash; percussion, [narration](/source/narration)

==References==
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Category:Impulse! Records albums
Category:Marion Brown albums
Category:1973 albums

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