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Ahmad Jamal: In his Own Sense of Time and Place
by Josef Woodard
This interview first appeared in the Santa Barbara News-Press on October 2005. The introduction has been updated. For the late, great and uniquely poetic pianist Ahmad Jamal, who passed on at age 92 on April 16, 2023, easy descriptors never sufficed in capturing his particular magic. He was a classicist, a modernist, a minimalist and a seeker on his own terms. Poinciana," circa his classic 1957 live recording from the hit" album Live at the Pershing: But Not ...
read moreRemembering Ahmad Jamal: Finished But Not Never
by Ian Patterson
Ahmad Jamal, the quiet pioneer of jazz piano has died aged 92, after a battle with prostate cancer. He passed away on Sunday, 16 April, according to a statement from his daughter, Sumayah Jamal. In a career that spanned the 1940s to the 2020s, Jamal always followed his own musical instincts. He was one of the very few pianists of the day not to succumb to the lure of bebop, purveying instead a spare, refined sound. Perhaps because ...
read moreAhmad Jamal: Forward Momentum
by Ian Patterson
In memory of the venerable Ahmad Jamal. This article was first published on All About Jazz on July 6, 2010. Ahmad Jamal, possibly the most influential of living jazz pianists, turned 80 years young on July 2, 2010. It is however, business as usual and instead of celebrating at home in his slippers, Jamal was wowing an audience at the Montreal Jazz festival. Jamal is touring now more than ever before, and is in demand all ...
read moreAhmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights - Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966
by Alberto Bazzurro
Secondo volume, anche questo doppio (minutaggio, in realtà, di un singolo lungo: 78:30), della saga jamaliana: dopo gli anni 1963-1964, si attraversa qui il biennio successivo, per l'esattezza il 18 e 25 marzo (con Chuck Lampkin alla batteria) e il 28 ottobre (con Vernel Fournier al suo posto) 1965, e il 22 settembre dell'anno seguente (con Frank Grant dietro i tamburi), sempre in concerto al Penthouse di Seattle. Nessuno dei nove brani qui presenti figurava nel precedente ...
read moreAhmad Jamal, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Others
by Jerome Wilson
This program features pianists such as Ahmad Jamal and Gonzalo Rubalcaba plus music from a wide variety of sources, including the String Trio of New York and Lennie Niehaus. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 The Reese Project Blues For Ruthie" from Evening In Vermont (Rhombus) 00:56 Dave Stryker Blues Strut" from Blue Soul (Strikezone) 6:21 Host Speaks 13:16 ...
read moreAhmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse (1963-1964) and (1965-1966)
by Mike Jurkovic
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 the blessing of His Coolness Jamal himself, Grammy-nominated producer and musical gumshoe Zev Feldman christens his new imprint, Jazz Detective, (itself a division of ...
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