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Ahmad Jamal: Live in Paris (1971)

by Joshua Weiner
March 26, 2024

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 ...

Emerald City Nights: Live at The Penthouse, 1966-1968

By Ahmad Jamal

Label: Jazz Detective
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Gloria; Fantastic Vehicle; Misty; Mr. Lucky; Autumn Leaves. CD 2: Corcovado (Quiet Night of the Quiet Stars)Where is Love; Dance to the Lady; Naked City Theme; Emily; Alfie.

Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at The Penthouse, 1966-1968

by Mike Jurkovic
December 3, 2023

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 ...

Record Store Day Black Friday 2023: Jazz Releases

by Kyle Simpler
November 16, 2023

For many, Black Friday conjures up images of massive crowds battling each other to get their hands on marked down gift items at huge department stores. For record collectors, though, the scene is much less dramatic because Black Friday is one of two yearly Record Store Day drops. This is where limited run albums hit the ...

Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse (1963-1964) and (1965-1966)

by Mike Jurkovic
January 5, 2023

Let's entertain the undisputed truth that Ahmad Jamal, all ninety-two years of him, is quite possibly the coolest cat on a warming planet and these companion double sets Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse (1963-1964), and Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse (1965-1966) take on a rather folklorish, must-have status. With ...

Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse

By Ahmad Jamal

Label: Jazz Detective
Released: 2022
Track listing: Side A: Johnny One Note; Minor Adjustments. Side B: All of You; Squatty Roo. Side C: Bogota; Lollipops & Roses; Tangerine. Side D: Keep On Keepin On; Minor Moods; But Not for Me.

Live in Paris (1971)

By Ahmad Jamal

Label: Transversales Disques
Released: 2022
Track listing: Bogota; Manhattan Reflections; Effendi.

Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse

by Karl Ackermann
November 28, 2022

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. ...

Mark de Clive-Lowe: Celebrating Pharoah Sanders

by Chris May
August 15, 2022

It is a curious thing, but among the present day champions of Pharoah Sanders' fundamentally acoustic music are two early adopters of post-production heavy, digitally-enabled, high-tech mutoid jazz: bassist and producer Bill Laswell and keyboardist and broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe, whose Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders (Soul Bank) was released in July 2022. ...