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Ahmad Jamal
by Chris May
In February 2010, at the well seasoned age of 80, pianist Ahmad Jamal released A Quiet Time on Dreyfus Records. It is an album many observers regard as up there in the stratosphere along with such landmark Jamal discs as Chicago Revisited (Telarc, 1992) or A L'Olympia (Dreyfus, 1996), to name just two of many--or even ...
Ahmad Jamal: Blue Moon
by Chris May
Ahmad JamalBlue MoonJazz Village2012 It is tempting to say that, at age 82, Ahmad Jamal carries on getting better and better, but that would be to miss the point. The pianist long ago reached a level of perfection from which it is simply not possible to get ...
Ahmad Jamal Trio: The Legendary 1958 Pershing Lounge & Spotlite Club Recordings
by Chris May
Ahmad Jamal TrioThe Legendary 1958 Pershing Lounge & Spotlite Club PerformancesSolar Records2011 “Play like Jamal," trumpeter Miles Davis is reputed to have told his pianist Red Garland in the mid 1950s. We can but speculate how Garland reacted to this request, assuming the story is true. It ...
MCG Jazz Remembers John Levy, Our Friend
John Levy, manager to countless jazz luminaries, dies at age 99. John Levy, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and renowned personal manager for many jazz greats, died on January 20th, less than three months shy of his 100th birthday. His wife, Devra Hall Levy said he was sleeping peacefully in her arms at ...
McCoy Tyner Trio: Inception
by Lawrence Peryer
Though two tracks from October 1960 were previously issued under McCoy Tyner's name, they were outtakes from John Coltrane dates where the saxophonist sat out. Inception marks the pianist's first proper release as bandleader, with the sessions for Impulse! taking place at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on January 10 and 11, 1962. Of the set's six ...
Jack DeJohnette: Time and Space
by John Kelman
It begins with the sound of a resonating bell, followed by a gently cascading piano solo that gradually assumes shape and form, hovering around two chords and creating an inviting ambiance that resolves with another ringing of the bell, segueing gently into the groove-heavy “Salsa for Luisito." The track is “Enter Here," and the album is ...
Cat Conner: Cat Tales
by C. Michael Bailey
Cat ConnerCat TailesSelf Produced2011 One of the greatest jazz performance challenges is playing and singing ballads slow...sometimes called “calendar slow." The trick is playing slowly without dragging or stalling. It is simple physics, the difference between velocity and momentum. Simple tempo may be understood in terms of ...
Ignasi Terraza Trio: ...Live at the Living Room, Bangkok
by Ian Patterson
Pianist Ignasi Terraza has led trios and quartets for twenty years, collaborating with Spain's finest jazz musicians along the way. He's also played with saxophone legends Teddy Edwards, Lou Donaldson and Frank Wess, singer Stacey Kent, and trumpeter Jon Faddis. ...Live at the Living Room, Bangkok documents his trio, over two nights in the Thai capital, ...
Legendary 1958 Pershing Lounge & Spotlite Club Performances
By Ahmad Jamal
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Released: 2011
Track listing: CD 1:
01. But Not For Me; 02. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top; 03. Moonlight In Vermont; 04. Music! Music! Music! (Put Another Nickel In); 05. There Is No Greater Love; 06. Poinciana; 07. Woody ‘N You; 08. What’s New?; 09. Too Late Now; 10. All The Things You Are; 11. Cherokee; 12. It Might As Well Be Spring; 13. I’ll Remember April; 14. My Funny Valentine; 15. Gone With The Wind; 16. Billy Boy; 17. It’s You Or No One;18. They Can’t Take That Away From Me; 19. Poor Butterfly; 20. Poinciana (Single Version); 21 Poinciana (1955 Studio Version).
CD 2:
01. Ahmad’s Blues; 02. It Could Happen To You; 03. I Wish I Knew 3:45; 04. Autumn Leaves; 05. Stompin’ At The Savoy; 06. Cheek To Cheek; 07. The Girl Next Door; 08. Secret Love; 09. Squatty Roo; 10. Taboo; 11. Autumn In New York; 12. A Gal In Calico; 13. That’s All; 14. Should I?; 15. Seleritus; 16. Let’s Fall In Love.
CD 3:
01. This Can’t Be Love; 02. Ole Devil Moon; 03. Ivy; 04. Tater Pie; 05. Aki & Ukthay (Brother & Sister); 06. You Don’t Know What Love Is; 07. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was; 08. So Beats My Heart For You; 09. Our Delight; 10. Soft Winds (Studio); 11. Secret Love (Studio); 12. Taking A Chance On Love (Studio); 13. Volga Boatman; 14. On Green Dolphin Street; 15. How About You?; 16. I Just Can’t See For Lookin’; 17. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year; 18. Beat Out One; 19. Maryam; 20. Easy To Remember; 21. Jim Loves Sue.
