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AHMAD JAMAL: THE COMPLETE AHMAD JAMAL TRIO ARGO SESSIONS 1956-62 The jazz piano sage
Ahmad Jamal, now into his eighth decade, earned his stature as a young man, more than half a century ago.
The evidence resides in these recordings, some among the best known of his career and others previously
unreleased. “But Not for Me,” a hit album recorded in 1958 at the Pershing Lounge in Chicago, comes
alongside hours of other material featuring the bassist Israel Crosby and the drummer Vernel Fournier, Mr.
Jamal’s rare co-equals in poise. Their chemistry as a trio attests to an exacting but searching intellect: among
the unearthed gems is a session, five months after the Pershing, in which Mr. Fournier grafts his lilting
“Poinciana” beat onto a version of “Love for Sale.” There’s one date with a string section, arranged and
conducted by Joe Kennedy, and another featuring the trio augmented just by Mr. Kennedy’s violin and Ray
Crawford’s guitar; those are pleasant but outmoded, and a bit overeager. By contrast the trio itself sounds
effortless, and just about ageless. (Mosaic, nine CDs, $149, available only at mosaicrecords.com.)
Nate Chinen, The New York Times

"...Jamal is probably the most distinctive jazz pianist since Theolonius Monk...(his) music was a constant
theatre of surprise...tsunamis of sound suddenly rose up from nowhere, then dropped away to the merest
tinkling at the top of the keyboard... It was as intensely dramatic as it was emotionally tight-lipped...

(Jamal) is a pianist who never played a cliche (or anything approaching one)...Forget the term "small-group
jazz." The relatively complex structures and the dramatic shifts in dynamics, rhythm and mood made this
"mini-orchestra jazz."

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