Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet

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Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet
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Studio album by Ahmad Jamal
Released 1961
Recorded August 15–17, 1960
Studio Ter-Mar Recording Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Length33:28
Label Argo
LPS-673
Producer Jack Tracy
Ahmad Jamal chronology
At the Pershing, Vol. 2
(1961) At the Pershing, Vol. 21961		Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet
(1961)		 Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra
(1961) Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra1961
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Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet is an album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Argo 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.

Argo Records was a record label in Chicago that was established in 1955 as a division of Chess Records.

Contents

Critical reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Ahmad's Waltz" (Ahmad Jamal) – 4:44
  2. "Valentina" (Christine Reynolds) – 2:19
  3. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 2:57
  4. "Tempo for Two" (Joe Kennedy) – 3:26
  5. "Hallelujah" (Vincent Youmans, Leo Robin) – 2:06
  6. "It's a Wonderful World" (Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson) – 2:50
  7. "Baía" (Ary Barroso) – 4:04
  8. "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis" (John Benson Brooks, Bob Russell) – 3:53
  9. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – 4:04
  10. "Who Cares?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:05

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.

Violin bowed string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths

The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused. The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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References

  1. 1 2 Allmusic Review accessed May 22, 20121
  2. ↑ Ahmad Jamal discography accessed May 22, 2012
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