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AHMAD JAMAL

BUT NOT FOR ME - LIVE AT THE PERSHING LOUNGE 1958 (LP) (LTD)
Label JAZZTWIN
Catalog 50006
Format LP
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-12-28
Description
・ LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITIONS
・ NEWLY REMASTERED
・ OUTSTANDING NEW COVERS
・ DIRECT METAL MASTERING
・ 180g LP - AUDIOPHILE PRESSING
Although they were not Ahmad Jamal’s first recordings the 1958 Pershing and Spotlite performances marked the beginning of his success. The original album But Not for Me taped at the Pershing Lounge in Chicago on January 16 & 17 1958 included eight of the 43 tunes played by the trio which were carefully selected by the pianist himself. The 1958 Down Beat review was mildly negative referring to Jamal as playing “cocktail music”. While the reviewer acknowledged Jamal’s skill and influence on other jazz musicians such as Miles Davis he wrote that “The trio’s chief virtue is an excellent smooth light but flexible beat. Throughout the music is kept emotionally melodically and organizationally innocuous.” In August of 1958 however Jet magazine already referred to the album as “a nationwide hit” and the same month Down Beat posted the album sales counts at over 47000 noting that any album selling 15000 to 20000 is “big.” The December 1958 Down Beat poll of music retailers showed that the album was the “number one jazz bestseller” and it stayed on Billboard Magazine album charts for 107 weeks. The splendid formation of the Jamal Trio heard here would last until 1962 for on August 11 of that year bassist Israel Crosby died of a heart attack. To the eight tunes on the original album we have added two extra tunes also recorded at the Pershing.

AHMAD JAMAL piano; ISRAEL CROSBY bass; VERNELL FOURNIER drums. Live at the Pershing Lounge Chicago January 16 & 17 1958. Original recordings produced by Dave Usher
tracklisting
SIDE A:
1. BUT NOT FOR ME (George & Ira Gershwin)
2. THE SURREY WITH THE FRINGE ON TOP (Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II)
3. MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT (Karl Suessdorf-John Blackburn)
4. MUSIC! MUSIC! MUSIC! (PUT ANOTHER NICKEL) (Stephen Weiss-Bernie Baum)
5. THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE (Isham Jones-Marty Symes)
6. IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING*(Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II)
SIDE B:
1. POINCIANA (Nat Simon-Buddy Bernier)
2. WOODY ‘N YOU (Dizzy Gillespie)
3. WHAT’S NEW? (Bob Haggart-Johnny Burke)
4. I’LL REMEMBER APRIL* (Don Raye-Gene DePaul-Patricia Johnston)
*BONUS TRACKS. Not on the original LP configuration.
 

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