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Ahmad Jamal: Legendary 1958 Pershing Lounge & Spotlite Club Performances
by AAJ Italy Staff
Districarsi in queste tre ore e mezza abbondanti di musica non è cosa agevole, per il discografo. Le due sessions del titolo (che sono poi quattro, in quanto a performance) risalgono al 16 e 17 gennaio 1958 (al Pershing Lounge di Chicago: tutto il primo CD, ultimo brano escluso) e al 5 e 6 settembre dello stesso anno (allo Spotlite di Washington: l'intero secondo CD e i primi nove titoli del terzo). Ci sono poi brani sparsi, incisi fra l'ottobre ...
Continue ReadingThe Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62
by David Rickert
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 aren't played are just as important as the ones that are. He was an enormously influential pianist in the 1950s who, despite a hit ...
Continue ReadingThe Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
"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. If there ever was a subject worthy of a Mosaic box set, Jamal is it. For six decades, he has been, for several reasons, ...
Continue ReadingAhmad Jamal: A Quiet Time
by Ian Patterson
Ahmad JamalA Quiet TimeDreyfus Records2010 Always reluctant to go into the studio unless he has material he is thoroughly satisfied with, pianist Ahmad Jamal's A Quiet Time could be considered as a follow-up to It's Magic (Dreyfus Records, 2008), given the relatively short period between the two releases. Stylistically, it is similar, with Jamal leading a habitual trio augmented with percussion through a set of (mostly) originals, a couple of which have ...
Continue ReadingAhmad Jamal: A Quiet Time
by Graham L. Flanagan
As one of the most highly influential jazz musicians on earth, pianist Ahmad Jamal enhances that sparkling reputation with his outstanding new studio effort A Quiet Time. The disc features two of the strong supporting players from his previous release, It's Magic (Dreyfus, 2008): James Cammack (bass) and Manolo Badrena (percussion), with Kenny Washington replacing Idris Muhammad on drums. While the title may imply a relaxed, ballad-heavy session, Jamal takes plenty of opportunities to swing at medium ...
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by Greg Camphire
Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time Dreyfus Records 2010
Pianist Ahmad Jamal continues his career-long winning streak with A Quiet Time. The album expands on a stream of superb, post-mid 1990s releases made with largely the same working band: the Verve label's three-part The Essence series (1996-98), followed by Dreyfus' In Search of Momentum (2003), After Fajr (2005) and the excellent It's Magic (2008), among others. Jamal has achieved living legend status by ...
Continue ReadingAhmad Jamal: It's Magic
by Graham L. Flanagan
Ahmad Jamal remains one of the few elder statesmen left in the ever-shrinking pantheon of certified jazz legends. He has not stopped touring and recording since he burst onto the scene in the early '50s, making music that would later inspire the rising Miles Davis, who cited the pianist as one of his greatest influences.
How fortunate we are then to be blessed with numerous opportunities to hear this national treasure. Joining Jamal is his regular rhythm section of James ...
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