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Ahmad Jamal

Saturday, November 11 • 8pm

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    • "When people say Jamal influenced me a lot, they're right." — Miles Davis

    It’s hard to overstate Ahmad Jamal’s impact on jazz. His harmonic innovations, influenced by Impressionist composers such as Debussy and Ravel, made an art form out of the space between notes. He also integrated the piano-bass-drums trio into a democratic unit with a sense of unprecedented interaction. "No musician has had a more profound effect on the orchestral approach to small groups in the last 35 years than Ahmad Jamal," famed jazz critic and social commentator Stanley Crouch wrote in the Village Voice. Read Program Notes

    Personnel:
    • Ahmad Jamal, piano
    • Idris Muhammad, drums
    • James Cammack, bass

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