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Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse, 1966-1968
by Stefano Merighi
Il terzo volume della serie “Emerald City Nights" del trio di Ahmad Jamal documenta alcune serate al Penthouse di Seattle nel triennio 1966-68. L'edizione è assai curata e firmata da Zev Feldman per il suo marchio Jazz Detective. Jamal, pianista stimatissimo da molti maestri del jazz fin dai suoi esordi, confermava in queste esibizioni di guardare obliquamente la storia del jazz moderno, dal bebop fino al modale, da una posizione del tutto originale, magari con un atteggiamento eclettico ...
Continue ReadingAhmad Jamal: Live in Paris (1971)
by Joshua Weiner
The pianist Ahmad Jamal, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 92, needs no introduction. Suffice it to say that this NEA Jazz Master and Lifetime Grammy Award recipient was one of the most popular pianists, small group leaders and hit recording artists of his time. One might be forgiven for thinking everything was known about Jamal, given his extensive discography. Happily, however, Transversales Disques continues its excellent series of “Lost ORTF Recordings" with this release, recorded live ...
Continue ReadingAhmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at The Penthouse, 1966-1968
by Mike Jurkovic
It was a time of warring nations, either within themselves or without. John Coltrane had fallen as Miles Davis was firing up the jazz/funk. It was a time of young men screaming, their bodies on fire. Black and white images of villages savaged and children starving. Into these unrivaled moments--they had just taken down a holy man in Memphis a month before--Ahmad Jamal, his uncluttered allegiance to cool, underscored syncopation, and profound ease and understanding of Erroll Garner's ...
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by Alberto Bazzurro
Come cadeau da far(si) in prospettiva più o meno natalizia, la Jazz Detective—nuova etichetta del produttore Zev Feldman, sempre attivissimo nel riesumare registrazioni inedite (come qui) o comunque rare—recupera una serie di live sessions dei trii che Ahmad Jamal diresse attorno alla metà degli anni Sessanta e raccoglie il tutto in due doppi CD (o doppi LP) del cui primo ci occupiamo oggi, e del successivo a breve (ottimi i riversamenti, generosi i libretti di accompagnamento, con foto rare, note ...
Continue ReadingAhmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse
by Karl Ackermann
2022 marks the ninety-second year of pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal. An NEA Jazz Master and Grammy winner, in 2007 he was designated a Kennedy Center honoree as a Living Jazz Legend. His first release was The Three Strings (Epic, 1951) and, throughout that decade, he recorded a dozen albums, all in a piano trio format. Of Jamal's approximately seventy recordings, he has employed orchestras, choirs, and larger ensembles but his catalog includes dozens of trio releases. His groundbreaking At ...
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