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Ahmad Jamal: In his Own Sense of Time and Place

by Josef Woodard
April 20, 2023

This interview first appeared in the Santa Barbara News-Press on October 2005. The introduction has been updated. For the late, great and uniquely poetic pianist Ahmad Jamal, who passed on at age 92 on April 16, 2023, easy descriptors never sufficed in capturing his particular magic. He was a classicist, a modernist, a minimalist ...

Who Was Joe Kennedy Jr.?

September 15, 2022

Yesterday I posted on a new box set from Fresh Sound featuring the complete recordings of Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings between 1951 and 1955. In the post, I wrote that in the late 1940s Ahmad played in a Pittsburgh group called the Four Strings that never recorded. The Four Strings folded after Joe Kennedy Jr., the ...

Global Entry

By Gabriel Evan Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Waltz of the Flowers; Rumba Azul; Arabian Nightmare; South 5th Street; Diane; Singin' the Blues; Jubilee Stomp; Negotiations of South Williamsburg; Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes; Lujon; Effervescent Blues; Rumba Tambah.

Rumba Azul

May 31, 2021

Album: Global Entry
By Gabriel Evan Orchestra
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 03:15

Gabriel Evan Orchestra: Global Entry

by Jack Bowers
May 13, 2021

At least one dictionary defines an orchestra as “a large instrumental ensemble...which combines instruments from different families including bowed string instruments...woodwinds...brass...percussion..." and “other instruments such as the piano, celeste...and harp..." Or, in the vernacular of New York-based saxophonist Gabriel Evan, a jazz sextet with some but not all of the above. Which is an around-the-block way ...

Ahmad Jamal: Trio & Quintet Recordings With Ray Crawford

by Chris May
November 20, 2019

This 2xCD reissue comprises three of Ahmad Jamal's early and mid 1950s trio albums plus a fourth recorded in 1960 with a quintet. Between times, Jamal had released the totemic trio set At The Pershing (Argo, 1958), which included the break-out single “Poinciana" (his first, equally lovely, 1955 recording of Nat Simon and Buddy Bernier's tune ...

The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62

by David Rickert
September 10, 2010

Ahmad JamalThe Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62Mosaic Records2010 If you're familiar with pianist Ahmad Jamal, it's more likely through his reputation and not through his music. Trumpeter Miles Davis famously remarked that Jamal taught him to be more economical in his playing: that the notes that ...

The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
August 20, 2010

"When I listen to these records now... when I listen to the Pershing, it's phenomenal, I must say. What they were doing, phenomenal, the lines and the purity. It's so pure ... It was sheer joy working with these two individuals. Master musicians," writes pianist/bandleader Ahmad Jamal in the liner notes to this collection.

Magnifique!

By Joe Kennedy

Label: Black And Blue
Released: 1980
Track listing: On Green Dolphin Street; When Lights Are Low; My Romance; Day In Day Out; Shiny Stockings; The Major; Wind Blown Blues; Falling In Love With Love; Valse Hot;