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  IMP12262CD  £6.00

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Impulse! / GRP

Ahmad Jamal

Awakening

if there was ever a man that never received the credit he deserved that man was ahmad jamal jamal played jazz piano differently from everyone else he had the classical chops to play all over the place and use his jazz knowledge to run across the piano with all kinds of different scales but jamal was smarter than that he knew that 32nd note runs for 8 minutes straight would get boring and tiring he used space and silence so well that it inspired much of miles davisu2019 playing however the world gives davis the credit for revolutionizing that style of playing the general public doesnu2019t even list jamal in the top ten jazz pianists of all time obviously that means nothing to jamal as displayed in his track title i love music thatu2019s really all that matters and that mindset shines through brilliantly on the awakening