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Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse
by Alberto Bazzurro
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 LP) del cui primo ci occupiamo oggi, e del successivo a breve (ottimi i riversamenti, generosi i libretti di accompagnamento, con foto rare, note ...
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by Karl Ackermann
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. Of Jamal's approximately seventy recordings, he has employed orchestras, choirs, and larger ensembles but his catalog includes dozens of trio releases. His groundbreaking At ...
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