Jazz Articles about Ahmad Hassan Muhammad

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Ahmad Hassan Muhammad: Fly

by Jonathan Wertheim
March 13, 2011

Ahmad Hassan Muhammad isn't a big name in jazz--yet. The Cincinnati-born pianist self-produced and released hist first record, Fly, in October 2010, and while the disc is very much a first effort, it holds surprise, pleasure and promise often unheard in second or third releases by others in the jazz scene today. Everything about the disc's opener, “Star Child"--a piano intro that stretches like a rubber band, the subtle entry of the bass and drums, the crescendo ...