Picture Perfect (Ahmad Jamal album)

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Picture Perfect
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Studio album by
Ahmad Jamal
Released2001
Recorded2001
StudioClassic Sound & Millbrook Sound Studios, New York
Genre Jazz
Label Birdology, Warner Music France
Producer Jean-François Deiber, J.F.D. Productions
Ahmad Jamal chronology
Ahmad Jamal with the Assai Quartet
(1998)		Picture Perfect
(2001)		À L'Olympia
(2001)

Picture Perfect is a 2001 album by the American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, recorded in New York, at Classic Sound and Millbrook Sound Studios. Its full title is Picture Perfect: Ahmad Jamal With Special Guest Dr. O.C. Smith. [1]

Contents

O. C. Smith (Ocie Lee Smith, 1932 – 2001) was a singer, and Ahmad's friend. After Picture Perfect, they were going to do another project together, dedicated to George Washington Carver, who was a friend of Smith's father, but O.C. passed away before they could start work on it. [2]

Smith sings on two of the tracks on this album, "Whisperings" and "Picture Perfect", Jamal songs that, he said, "a lot of people don't know". [3] Jamal felt that this album was "overlooked". [4]

Track listing

  1. "Building N°1" (Jamal) 6:30
  2. "The Proving Ground" (Jamal) 4:12
  3. "The Ritual" (Jamal) 2:03
  4. "Whisperings" (Jamal, Aziza Miller) 6:32
  5. "It Always Happens" (Jamal) 7:33
  6. "My Latin" (Jamal, Miller) 5:46
  7. "Spot One" (Jamal) 6:11
  8. "Picture Perfect" (Jamal, Miller) 4:48
  9. "Mystifying" (Jamal) 5:57
  10. "The Blooming Flower" (Jamal) 5:21
  11. "Ultra Violet" (Jamal) 4:53
  12. "It's Only a Flower" (Jamal) 4:20

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Picture Perfect". discogs.com. Discogs. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Woodard, Josef. "Ahmad Jamal: In his Own Sense of Time and Place". allaboutjazz.com. All About Jazz. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  3. ↑ Sinnenberg, Jackson. "Interview with Ahmad Jamal". capitalbop.com. Capitalbop. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Woodard, Josef. "Ahmad Jamal: In his Own Sense of Time and Place". allaboutjazz.com. All About Jazz. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
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