Ahmad Jamal '73
Ahmad Jamal '73 is an album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded in 1973 and released on the 20th Century label.
Reception
The Allmusic review awarded the album 2 stars stating "Ahmad Jamal '73 is an early instance of him playing an instrument besides acoustic piano, but it is a few tracks away from being a necessity".
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Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, group leader, and educator. For five decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz.
Biography
Early life
Jamal was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began playing piano at the age of three, when his uncle Lawrence challenged him to duplicate what he was doing on the piano. Jamal began formal piano training at the age of seven with Mary Cardwell Dawson, whom he describes as greatly influencing him. His Pittsburgh roots have remained an important part of his identity ("Pittsburgh meant everything to me and it still does," he said in 2001) and it was there that he was immersed in the influence of jazz artists such as Earl Hines, Billy Strayhorn, Mary Lou Williams, and Erroll Garner. Jamal also studied with pianist James Miller and began playing piano professionally at the age of fourteen, at which point he was recognized as a "coming great" by the pianist Art Tatum. When asked about his practice habits by a The New York Times critic, Jamal commented that, "I used to practice and practice with the door open, hoping someone would come by and discover me. I was never the practitioner in the sense of twelve hours a day, but I always thought about music. I think about music all the time."
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Ahmad Jamal
ALBUMS
- Ahmad Jamal: Eight Classic Albums released: 2013
- Saturday Morning released: 2013
- Blue Moon released: 2012
- Poinciana Revisited / Freeflight released: 2011
- Jamal at the Penthouse released: 2010
- A Quiet Time released: 2009
- It's Magic released: 2008
- Just Jazz: Live released: 2005
- After Fajr released: 2005
- Macanudo released: 2004
- Portfolio released: 2004
- Live in Paris 1996 released: 2003
- In Search of... Momentum [1-10] released: 2003
- Live in Paris 92 released: 2003
- In Search of... Momentum released: 2003
- Midnite Jazz & Blues: Waltz for Debby released: 2001
- Picture Perfect released: 2001
- Olympia 2000 released: 2001
- Live at Midem released: 2000
- Nature: The Essence, Part III released: 1998
- Priceless Jazz Collection: Ahmad Jamal released: 1998
- Big Byrd: The Essence, Part 2 released: 1997
- Ahmad Jamal à Paris released: 1996
- The Essence, Part 1 released: 1996
- I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn released: 1995
- Ahmad's Blues released: 1994
- Chicago Revisited released: 1993
- The CBS Jazz Piano Collection - Ahmad Jamal, Volume 2: "The Ahmad Jamal Trio" released: 1989
- The CBS Jazz Piano Collection - Ahmad Jamal, Volume 1: "The Three Strings" released: 1989
- Poinciana released: 1989
- Pittsburgh released: 1989
- Crystal released: 1987
- Rossiter Road released: 1986
- Digital Works released: 1985
- The Best of Ahmad Jamal released: 1981
- Intervals released: 1980
- Genetic Walk released: 1980
- One released: 1978
- Steppin Out With a Dream released: 1976
- Jamal Plays Jamal released: 1974
- Jamalca released: 1974
- Ahmad Jamal '73 released: 1973
- Poinciana Revisited released: 1969
- The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful released: 1968
- Cry Young released: 1967
- Heat Wave released: 1966
- The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd released: 1965
- Rhapsody released: 1965
- Naked City Theme released: 1964
- Poinciana released: 1963
- Standard-Eyes released: 1961
- Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk released: 1961
- Jamal at the Penthouse released: 1959
- Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not for Me released: 1958
- Chamber Music of the New Jazz released: 1956
- Complete Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62 released:
- The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings released:
- Live at the Pershing & The Spotlight released:
- Night Song released:
- Live at the Alhambra released:
- Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985 released:
- I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn released:
- At the Pershing released:
- The Good Life released:
Jamal at the Penthouse
Released 2010- Comme Ci, Comma Ca
- Ivy
- Never Never Land
- Tangerine
- Ahmad's Blues
- Seleritus
- I Like to Recognize the Tune
- I'm Alone With You
- Sophisticated Gentleman
- Volga Boatman
- On Green Dolphin Street
- How About You?
- I Just Can't See for Lookin'
- Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
- Beat Out One
- Maryam
- Easy to Remember
- Jim Loves Sue
- I Wish I Knew
- Ahmad's Blues (Trio version)
- Seleritus (Trio version)
The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings
- The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
- Will You Still Be Mine
- Ahamd's Blues
- A Gal in Calico
- Aki and Ukthay
- Billy Boy
- Black Beauty
- Love for Sale
- Something to Remember You By
- Poinciana
- Don't Blame Me
- Autumn Leaves
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Old Devil Moon
- It's Easy to Remember
- Squeeze Me
- Crazy He Calls Me
- Pavanne
- Perfidia
- Rica Pulpa
- The Donkey Serenade
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by Ahmad Jamal
Chamber Music of the New Jazz
by: Ahmad JamalI was a stranger in the city
Out of town were the people I knew
I had that feeling of self-pity
What to do, what to do, what to do
The outlook was decidedly blue
But as I walked through the foggy streets alone
It turned out to be the luckiest day I've known
A foggy day, in London town
Had me low, had me down
I viewed the morning, with much alarm
British Museum, had lost its charm
How long I wondered,
Could this thing last
But the age of miracles, hadn't past
For suddenly, I saw you there
And through foggy London town,
The sun was shining everywhere
For suddenly, I saw you there
And through foggy London town,
The sun was shining everywhere
Everywhere
Everywhere
Everywhere