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A Day In Tarifa

Label: Jazzbook Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: A Day In Tarifa; Golden Wave; Sunrise; Marseille; Star Travel; Four One Two; Liberty Bridge; Shadow Catcher; Allegheny Current; Slipstream.

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Pittsburgh guitarist John Shannon began playing at age six, was performing around his hometown by his high school years, and has been recording with a variety of acoustic, rock and film music projects since 2008. A Day in Tarifa is his debut jazz album, and it lands firmly in the tradition, with a diverse and beguiling ...

Album

Ballades

By Ahmad Jamal

Label: Jazzbook Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Marseille; Because I Love You; I Should Care; Poinciana; Land Of Dreams; What's New; So Rare; Whisperings; Spring Is Here/Your Story; Emily.

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Ahmad Jamal: Ballades

Read "Ballades" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
December 5, 2019

None other than Miles Davis cited Ahmad Jamal (born 1930) as a stylistic influence. So, as he was approaching his ninetieth birthday, what did this vibrant upstart do to further shake things up? He released his first ever solo album which isn't really a solo album because on three of the exemplarily graceful tracks on Ballades, ...

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Ahmad Jamal: Ballades

Read "Ballades" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 5, 2019

At 89, Ahmad Jamal remains a master of space, time, openness and poetics. Never one to add too much, yet always one to mine a song for all its rich natural flavors, Jamal is an artist whose work speaks with a direct and engaging sweep. His early trio classics became a model of sorts, inspiring Miles ...

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Ahmad Jamal: Blue Moon

Read "Blue Moon" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
March 21, 2012

In 1958 Pianist Ahmad Jamal burst on the scene with At the Pershing: But Not for Me (Argo Records), which contained the runaway hit “Poinciana." The song's impact was such that it remains Jamal's signature tune to this day. As sometimes comes with popular success, some jazz critics pulled back, but his championing by other musicians, ...