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April 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Bill Laurance Trio: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Bill Laurance Trio Live at Ronnie Scott’s Flint Music Bill Laurance’s rightful musical title might be Keyboard Wizard. A founder of the indie jazz-rock ensemble Snarky Puppy, he’s responsible for dizzying runs, weird and brilliant use of electronics and beneath all of that, the sensitivity and musicality of a pianist – so all the bells […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Bass, Bill Laurance, Bill Laurance Trio, Bill Laurance Trio: Live at Ronnie Scott’s, Drums, Flint Music, Jonathan Harvey, Live, Live at Ronnie Scott’s, Marjius Aleksa, Piano, Ronnie Scott's, Snarky Puppy, Trio, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Herlin Riley: Perpetual Optimism

Herlin Riley Perpetual Optimism Mack Avenue Herlin Riley has been a mainstay of Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra – and many of Wynton’s non-Lincoln solo albums too. He’s also been on recent recordings by Ahmad Jamal, and he carries the heart and soul of New Orleans in his bones and in his playing […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Drummer, Ellis Marsalis, Herlin Riley, Herlin Riley: Perpetual Optimism, Jazz, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Perpetual Optimsm, Wynton Marsalis, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ahmad Jamal: Ballades

Ahmad Jamal Ballades Jazz Village He’s just turned 89, he’s given us more than enough already – I haven’t even heard every Ahmad Jamal album that is available, and yet a part of me is worried at how I’ll feel when he’s no longer here to make music. Because over the last decade he’s released […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged #89, Ahmad Jamal, Ahmad Jamal: Ballades, Album Review, Ballads, Bassist, James Cammack, Jazz, Jazz Village, Piano, Solo, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Ahmad Jamal: Marseille

Ahmad Jamal Marseille Harmonia Mundi Musique S.A.S./JazzVillage/[PIAS] Ahmad Jamal has been considered one of the truly great jazz pianists for some time now – go back through his catalogue and hear how he adapted to electric playing and fusion across the 70s, even dabbling in some soft, chilled funk. And then back out the other […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adb Al Malik, Ahmad Jamal, Ahmad Jamal: Marseille, Album Review, Herlin Riley, James Cammack, Jazz, Marseille, Mina Agossi, Piano, Quartet ·

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March 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 742

Ahmad Jamal, Ahmad Jamal at The Top: Poinciana Revisited (1969) Many years ago a customer asked me to order him an Ahmad Jamal CD. It was my first job in a music store, I was 21, I loved a bit of jazz but I didn’t know Ahmad Jamal. The customer returned the CD, unhappy that […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1969, Ahmad Jamal, Ahmad Jamal At The Top, Ahmad Jamal at The Top: Poinciana Revisited, At The Top, How Insensitive, Jazz, Live Album, LP, Piano, Poinciana Revisited, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 742, Vinyl ·

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January 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Cyrus Chestnut: A Million Colors In Your Mind

Cyrus Chestnut A Million Colors In Your Mind HighNote Records, Inc. Cyrus Chestnut continues to go from strength to strength as a jazz pianist capable of reinventing pop and rock hits under those blues and gospel hues he finds within and around jazz. He continues, also, to pay respect to the true standards – so […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Million Colors In Your Mind, A Time For Love, Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Bill Evans, Cyrus Chestnut, David Williams, Frank Loesser, Gloria's Step, Hello, I've Never Been In Love Before, Jazz, Johnny Mandel, Lionel Richie, Piano, Scott LaFaro, Stephen Scott, Trio, Victor Lewis ·

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November 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 798

Ahmad Jamal, Macanudo (1962) I love when this happens – you review the reissue of an album – and you’re hooked. Out of nowhere. So that meant I had to buy this album; the LP that is. The vinyl. The record. Well, I’m enough of an Ahmad Jamal fan anyway – that, probably, I would […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1962, Ahmad Jamal, Bogota, LP, Macanudo, Record, Reissue, The Vinyl Countdown # 798, Vinyl ·

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October 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Aaron Goldberg: The Now

Aaron Goldberg The Now Sunnyside Records The easy, obvious comparison with Goldberg and his trio (bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland, they also work with the great Charles Lloyd) is to Brad Mehldau’s small combo/trio work – tinkering, skittish percussion flirts alongside piano glissando, they so effortlessly, as a group, fall back into the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Aaron Goldberg, Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Brad Mehldau, Charles Lloyd, Eric Harland, Jazz, Piano, Reuben Rogers, The Now ·

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September 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Ahmad Jamal: Live in Marciac, August 5th 2014

Ahmad Jamal Live In Marciac, August 5th 2014 Jazz Village Ahmad Jamal has delivered great albums in recent years – not just good albums, not just great-stuff-to-know-he’s-still-alive-and-playing-capable albums, but kickass records that burst with ideas, that remind of his spirited playing across so many decades; that show he still has it – can’t lose it […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2015, Ahmad Jamal, Ahmad Jamal: Live in Marciac August 5th 2014, Album Review, Blue Moon, Herlin Riley, Jazz, Live at the Pershing Lounge, Live in Marciac August 5th 2014, Manolo Badrena, Piano, Reginald Veal, Saturday Morning ·

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July 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Ahmad Jamal: Macanudo

Ahmad Jamal Macanudo (reissue) Argo Originally released in 1962 this album – a trim 26 minutes – featured the great jazz pianist backed by the Richard Evans-conducted orchestra. A rare outing of this nature for Jamal – who, to this day, favours the trio format it is here available for the first time on CD, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1962, 2014, Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Deluxe, Israel Crosby, Jazz, Macanudo, Orchestra, Poinciana, Reissue, Richard Evans, Trio, Vernel Fournier ·

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January 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without A Net

Wayne Shorter Quartet Without A Net Blue Note Records Here’s the document of Wayne Shorter and Quartet’s recent tour – since this was released the saxophonist turned 80. He plays with the vim and vigour of a man half that age. What’s dazzling here is that it’s not just a group of great players propping […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Brian Blade, Danilo Perez, Jazz, John Patitucci, Live, Wayne Shorter, Wayne Shorter Quartet, Without A Net ·

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November 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Ahmad Jamal: Saturday Morning

  Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning Jazz Village I loved Blue Moon, Ahmad Jamal’s album from last year and Saturday Morning is a better record; livelier, it spins in different circles, there’s more flourishes, more colour, more enthusiasm, the percussive groove is fully locked down now – splashes of cymbals and conga accents dive in and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Blue Moon, Herlin Riley, Jazz, Jazz Trio, Piano, Saturday Morning ·
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