Review: Self-styled 'jazz detetcive' Zev Feldman heralds a new series entitled Deep Digs Music with this collaboration with Elemental Music, releasing a never before heard performance from Ahmad Jamal live in Seattle in the early 60s. This official reissue has been overseen by Jamal himself, carefully restored from original tape reels and remastered to ensure the finest fidelity for your listening pleasure. The release comes with extensive new photos, essays from Eugene Holley Jr and Zev Feldman and interviews with Jamal and others.
Review: Picking up the thread from volume one, Elemental Music and Zev Feldman's Deep Digs Music team up to present another selection of incredible live recordings of jazz icon Ahmad Jamal. These sessions were recorded between 1965 and 1966 at The Penthouse in Seattle. The original audio has been transferred from the master tape reels, with Jamal himself lending his oversight and insight in the form of an interview. Along with the first volume from prior years, this serves as a wonderful document of Jamal's unerring talent at the peak of his musical powers.
Review: Keys maestro Ahmad Jamal was something of a lost bebopper, giving penance to a genre that was otherwise mired in noodling and relentless velocity. Placing artistic integrity over the spotlight was a trait he maintained over the course of an entire career, earning him a reputation as something of a jazz angel. This repress of an early live show in Paris - backed by Frank Gant on drums and Jamil Nasser on double bass - effortlessly brings a trans-Atlantic mood across the pond from New York to France, with Jamal sternly prodding both the white-and-black ivories, and our moods.
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