Live in Marciac (Jazzbook Records)
Ahmad Jamal
Released June 8, 2015
Jazzwise Top 10 Releases of 2015
YouTube:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RdP3–2DZ7I&list=OLAK5uy_ml-Mqp1ye5_rWyU4-RGpsBgn6HQ6YVAsg
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7chHkIzhfPC3Rp0OEbrYF2?si=kYzCARssTVil8Im9-E-iww
About:
This live concert album from Ahmad Jamal was recorded in Marciac on August 5, 2014. Joined by bassist Reginald Veal, drummer Herlin Riley and percussionist Manolo Badrena, Jamal and company bring all the magic of his recent albums Blue Moon and Saturday Morning to the concert stage, all the while invoking the spirit of Cole Porter and Horace Silver.
Track Listing:
1. Sunday Afternoon (Ahmad Jamal) 11:59
2. The Shout (Ahmad Jamal) 5:03
3. Dynamo (Ahmad Jamal) 8:10
4. The Gypsy (Billy Reid) 5:38
5. Strollin’ (Horace Silver) 6:25
6. Silver (Ahmad Jamal) 8:07
7. All of You (Cole Porter) 5:17
8. Blue Moon (Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers) 9:35
9. Autumn Rain (Ahmad Jamal) 12:37
Personnel:
Ahmad Jamal: piano
Reginald Veal: double bass
Herlin Riley: drums
Manolo Badrena: percussion
Recorded live August 5, 2014, at Jazz in Marciac, France
Produced by Ahmad Jamal and Seydou Barry, Gérard Bremond and Catherine Vallon-Barry
Review:
As Keith Shadwick observed, Jamal ‘used space in preference to bustle, and melodic and harmonic lucidity rather than jumble’. Recorded by the octogenarian pianist and his wonderfully lithe rhythm section in France last year. There can be few more coolly groovy jazz minimalists than Jamal, whose remarkable defining sense of relaxed-yet-taut ensemble dynamics remains undiminished by the passing years. It’s a magnificent, life-affirming performance, also captured on film.
Robert Shore (Jazzwise)
