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Richard Evans

Bizarrely discovered hip-hop aged 47 and is now a committed head. After years playing in a pop covers band, is absolutely loving playing with Thelonius and is delighted to lay back and listen to some great solos.

How Ahmad Jamal Got His Groove Back

by Chuck Lenatti
July 26, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Though he was well-versed in the musical vernacular of blues, big bands, bebop and hard bop, piano trios and singers, as well as European classical music, pianist Ahmad Jamal seemed out of step as jazz fused with rock and R&B in the 1970s. ...

Ahmad Jamal: After Poinciana

by Chuck Lenatti
May 21, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 On Location and at the Penthouse In an apparent effort to capitalize on the new-found popularity from his 1958 record, At the Pershing, But Not for Me (Argo LP628), Ahmad Jamal released a flurry of albums between 1958 and 1970, many of them ...

Eddie Higgins: Elegance And Confidentiality

by Daniele Trucco
October 12, 2023

This article was translated into English and was first published on meer.com.The story of a refined pianist, feted as a sideman by the greats of international jazz and an authentic star of the Japanese record scene.The Ascent I met pianist Eddie Higgins on three separate occasions--the first time was in 2006 at ...

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.

Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse

by Alberto Bazzurro
December 28, 2022

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 ...

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. ...

Kenny Burrell: Unlimited 1, Live at Catalina's

by Jack Bowers
November 22, 2016

Guitarist Kenny Burrell, who isn't generally known for hanging out with big bands, now has one of his own: the Los Angeles-based Jazz Orchestra Unlimited, for which he serves as music director on its debut album, Unlimited 1, Live at Catalina's. While the ensemble is splendid, individually and collectively, there's no doubt that Burrell is the ...

Paul Winter Sextet: Count Me In

by Duncan Heining
October 13, 2016

The Paul Winter Sextet might just be one of the best early sixties groups you never heard. Their story, and that of their leader and altoist Paul Winter's, is certainly one of the most remarkable in jazz. Had some director made a film of the Sextet's short life, jazz buffs would have scoffed at the conceit. ...