Crystal (Ahmad Jamal album)

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Crystal
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Studio album by
Ahmad Jamal
Released1987
Recorded1987
StudioNormandy Sound, Warren, Rhode Island
Genre Jazz
Length44:22
Label Atlantic 781 793-1
Producer Ahmad Jamal and Laura Hess-Hay
Ahmad Jamal chronology
Rossiter Road
(1986)		Crystal
(1987)		 Pittsburgh
(1989)

Crystal is an album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded in 1987 and released on the Atlantic label. [1]

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.

Atlantic Records American record label

Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Led Zeppelin and Yes.

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Critical reception

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In an Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "There are some magical moments on this quartet set... Jamal's control of dynamics and inventive use of space proved to be as effective as it had been when he first made his mark in the 1950s, although his chord voicings and general style had evolved. Jamal and his group perform ten of his originals with taste, swing and subtle surprises". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Ahmad Jamal

  1. "Quest for Light" – 4:48
  2. "Arabesque" – 4:48
  3. "Avo" – 7:04
  4. "Piano Solo" – 1:57
  5. "For My Daughter" – 3:34
  6. "Perugia" – 3:57
  7. "The Last Day" – 6:00
  8. "Crystal" – 4:58
  9. "Swahililand" – 4:08
  10. "The Canteen" – 3:08

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.

James Cammack American musician

James Alfred Conrad Cammack Jr. is an American bassist from Cornwall, New York.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Ahmad Jamal discography Archived 2012-05-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed May 25, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 25, 2012
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