The Awakening - 2023 US Verve Label 7-track LP Reissue

The Awakening - 2023 US Verve Label 7-track LP Reissue

The Ahmad Jamal Trio LP

32,60 €

Stock status: In stock
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AHMAD JAMAL TRIO IS AHMAD JAMAL ON PIANO, JAMIL NASSER ON BASS AND THE MONSTER FRANK GANT ON DRUMS. On what is perhaps the finest post-bop, pre-fusion jazz record of all time, the trio tear through standards by Herbie Hancock ("Dolphin Dance") and Antonio Carlos Jobim ("Wave"), a few of Jamal’s own compositions ("The Awakening", "Patterns"), and a roaring rendition of Emil Boyd and Hale Smith’s "I Love Music". The Awakening is equally revered in hip-hop and jazz circles, having been sampled on certified classics by Nas, Common, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Gang Starr and Jeru The Damaja, and more recently on Steven Julien a.k.a. Funkineven’s "XL". Original copies (even reissues) are outrageously impossible to find; I like to imagine all the golden era producers in the 90s conspiring to buy them all up, lock them in a secret bunker buried 2,000 feet below Queensbridge and throw away the key. 180 gram reissue cut at Third Man Pressing in Detroit from a newly remastered transfer. Recommended.

Tracklisting:


Side 1.
1. The Awakening   6:19
2. I Love Music   7:19
3. Patterns   6:19


Side 2.
1. Dolphin Dance   5:05
2. You're My Everything   4:40
3. Stolen Moments   6:27
4. Wave   4:25


 

Artist The Ahmad Jamal Trio
Media LP
Katalog nummer 602448476111
Land USA & Europe
Label Verve Records/Universal Music
Udgivelsesår 2023
Grading New/Still Factory Sealed
Genre Jazz
Sub Genre 1 Post Bop
Condition New