{"id":18024,"date":"2024-06-12T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=18024"},"modified":"2024-06-12T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:37:52","slug":"music-yhe-awakening-ahmad-jamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=18024","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: The Awakening, Ahmad Jamal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4258.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18022\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4258.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4258-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4258-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4258-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/stars_09_fourhalf-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18023\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/stars_09_fourhalf-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve heard Ahmad Jamal a little on and off over the years. But I guess I\u2019ve never really paid attention, until today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a long and prolific career, there\u2019s a lot to catch up on. But I just started with something that I liked the look (and price!) of, <em>The Awakening<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded Feb\u2019 2-3, 1970, in NY, with Emil Nasser on bass and Frank Gant on drums, it\u2019s a very interesting and ultimately, I think, rather beautiful album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One very interesting thing is the material, and how it\u2019s handled. The first three pieces are not familiar standards. Whereas three of the last four are. Or are they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmad and co, but particularly Jamal, take all the material way out, from its origins. Not \u2018out\u2019 as in appalling free jazz. But out as in the version of Jobim\u2019s Wave is barely recognisable as such. But in a good way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If some of the core qualities of jazz are freedom, expression, improvisation, change, surprise, and so on, then Jamal and his sideman deliver all of that, and more, right here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve heard Ahmad Jamal a little on and off over the years. But I guess I\u2019ve never really paid attention, until today. With a long and prolific career, there\u2019s a lot to catch up on. But I just started with something that I liked the look (and price!) of, The Awakening. Recorded Feb\u2019 2-3, 1970, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=18024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: The Awakening, Ahmad Jamal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-4GI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18025,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024\/revisions\/18025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}