Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985

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Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985
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Live album by
Ahmad Jamal
Released1986
RecordedJuly 1985
VenueMontreal International Jazz Festival, Montreal, Canada
Genre Jazz
Length68:33
Label Atlantic 781 699-1
Producer Ahmad Jamal and Laura Hess-Hay
Ahmad Jamal chronology
Digital Works
(1985)		Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985
(1986)		 Rossiter Road
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 1985 and released on the Atlantic label. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

The double album was released in 1986. Billboard listed it as a "recommended" album in November of that year. [4] Scott Yanow, in his review for Allmusic, states "This particular group is often reminiscent of Jamal's trios of the '50s, although with more modern bass playing and some denser piano than before". [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Ahmad Jamal except as indicated

  1. "Yellow Fellow" (Christian Paulin) – 15:02
  2. "Make Someone Happy" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 7:10
  3. "Acorn" – 7:21
  4. "Crossroads" – 8:52
  5. "Rossiter Road" – 8:54
  6. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:52
  7. "Footprints" (Wayne Shorter) – 8:09
  8. "Ebony" (Jack DeJohnette) – 8:34

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 25, 2012
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 761. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ↑ Ahmad Jamal discography Archived 2012-05-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed May 25, 2012
  4. ↑ "Jazz: Recommended". Billboard . 22 November 1986. p. 78. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
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