Cry Young

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Cry Young
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Studio album by Ahmad Jamal
Released 1967
Recorded June 12–13, 1967
Studio Fine Recording Studios, New York
Genre Jazz
Length33:09
Label Cadet
LPS-792
Producer Dick LaPalm
Ahmad Jamal chronology
Standard Eyes
(1967)		Cry Young
(1967)		 The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful
(1968)
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Cry Young is an album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded in 1967 and released on the Cadet label. [2]

Ahmad Jamal American jazz pianist

Ahmad Jamal is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator. For five decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz.

Cadet Records was an American record label that began as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the similarly named label in the UK. Cadet stopped releasing records around 1974, when its artists were moved to Chess.

Contents

Critical reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars calling it a "Fine, enjoyable date from his peak period of popularity". [1]

Track listing

  1. "A Beautiful Friendship" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:07
  2. "Where Is Love?" (Lionel Bart) – 2:34
  3. "Little Ditty" (Ahmad Jamal) – 2:23
  4. "Who Needs Manhattan" (Bob Williams) – 3:54
  5. "Minor Moods" (Jamal, Jamil Nasser) – 2:21
  6. "Cry Young" (Williams) – 3:43
  7. "Nature Boy" (eden ahbez) – 3:15
  8. "There Are Such Things" (Stanley Adams, Abel Baer, George W. Meyer) – 3:24
  9. "Call Me Irresponsible" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 2:53
  10. "Tropical Breeze" (Nasser) – 3:00
  11. "C'est si Bon" (Henri Betti) – 2:35

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Arrangement musical composition in altered form

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work. It may differ from the original work by means of reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or development of the formal structure. Arranging differs from orchestration in that the latter process is limited to the assignment of notes to instruments for performance by an orchestra, concert band, or other musical ensemble. Arranging "involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings.. .. Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety".

Jamil Nasser, born George Joyner and also credited on some of Ahmad Jamal's recordings as Jamil Sulieman, was an American jazz musician. He played double bass, electric bass, and tuba.

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References

  1. 1 2 Wynn, R. Allmusic Review accessed May 18, 2012
  2. ↑ Ahmad Jamal discography accessed May 18, 2012
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