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Ahmad Jamal: An American Classic

by Chuck Lenatti
April 30, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 1930-1958: From Pittsburgh to The Pershing Frederick Russell Jones was born on July 2, 1930, to a working-class family in Pittsburgh. His friends called him Fritz. As a boy, he delivered newspapers to Billy Strayhorn's family. He converted to Islam around 1950 and ...

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Poinciana

October 1, 2020

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Poinciana

By Andreas Dreier Trio

Label: Losen Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Lullaby of the Leaves; Darn that Dream; It Could Happen; Charokee; My Ideal; Eronel; The Best Thing for you is Me; Ask Me Now; Poinciana.

Article: Album Review

Andreas Dreier Trio: Poinciana

Read "Poinciana" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 19, 2014

There's no doubt when the soft tapping of drums announces a beat as light as lovers dancing through a summer night. This is the signature of one of the greatest cover versions of all time. Or rather, this is the watermark of a cover made into a new composition. Pianist Ahmad Jamal's trio now virtually owns ...

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Poinciana

Featuring the music of Ahmad Jamal Trio
Duration: 8:00
July 2, 2009

Ahmad Jamal (piano), James Cammack (bass), Idris Muhammad (drums) at the Marciac Jazz Festival.

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Poinciana

Featuring the music of Sun Ra All-Stars
Duration: 8:05
May 22, 2008

Sun Ra leads an all-star band in Berlin, 1983. Don Cherry, tp; Lester Bowie, tp; Marshall Allen, as, per; John Gilmore, ts, fl; Archie Shepp, ts; Sun Ra, key; Richard Davis, b; Clifford Jarvis, dr; Philly Joe Jones, dr; Famoudou Don Moye, perc.

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Poinciana

Featuring the music of Ahmad Jamal
Duration: 9:46
October 26, 2007

Ahmad Jamal performs a new version of a song long associated with him, "Poinciana", at the Vienne, France, Jazz Festival in 2005, accompanied by drummer Idris Muhammad and bassist James Cammack.

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