...mach ich – immerhin ja Zev Feldman und Matthew Lutthans dahinter. Ich habe noch Hoffnung...
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Ahmad Jamal: At the Jazz Showcase: Live in Chicago
From the opening phrases of this two-LP set, you can tell Ahmad Jamal was classically trained. The keyboard-spanning rhapsodies that set the stage for this recording call back to the pianist’s childhood of studying Liszt’s etudes. Throughout the set—even once bassist John Heard and Frank Gant join in—Jamal’s flavor of jazz, or “American classical music,” as he called it, always makes use of those limber finger exercises.
The impressionistic start gives way to a continually evolving performance that finds Jamal valiantly attempting to touch every key on the piano and occasionally reaching inside to strike the strings himself. But never does he overplay; his phrases are like ocean waves, crashing with violence, then subsiding in a beautiful, naturalistic rhythm, in a diverse repertoire that includes his own work as well as Herbie Hancock, Antonio Carlos Jobim, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” and the M.A.S.H. theme “Suicide Is Painless.” Under his expressive, continually reaching fingers, they all become explorations of grace and poetry. NL
Resonance 2-LP 33 RPM 180g black vinyl
• Live recordings from the Jazz Showcase, Chicago, recorded March 20 & 21, 1976
• Jacket: Direct-to-board gatefold
• Inner sleeve: White poly-lined
• Liner notes, insert, or booklet: 8-page booklet with essay by Eugene Holley, Jr., plus remembrances from Wayne Segal, Stu Katz, Joe Alterman, Fred Hersch, and Sonny Rollins, plus an intro by Zev Feldman
• Source: Digital; “Transferred from Joe Segal’s original master tapes”
• Mastering credit: “Sound restoration by George Klabin at Resonance Studios, Matthew Lutthans, and Joe Lizzi”; “LP mastering by Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab, Salina, KS”
• Lacquer cut by: Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab at Salina, KS; “MCL” in the deadwax
• Pressed at: Le Vinylist, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
• Vinyl pressing quality (visual): A
• Vinyl pressing quality (audio): A- (one minor spot of noise on Side 1)
• Additional notes: Hand-numbered limited first pressing of 2850.
