★★★★★
Track Listing: Back to the Future; I'll Always Be with You; Saturday Morning; Edith's Cake; The Line; I'm in the Mood for Love; Firefly; Silver; I Got It Bad and that Ain't Good; One; Saturday Morning. Personnel: Ahmad Jamal: pianoforte; Reginald Veal: contrabbasso; Herlin Riley: batteria; Manolo Badrena: percussioni. Record Label: Jazz Village Style: Straight-ahead/Mainstream
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-03-04
★★★★★
Ahmad Jamal sounds like the luckiest man in the world on Saturday Morning. At 83, the pianist is able to express with magisterial power all the rhythms in his heart and moods in his soul. Perhaps it's karmic payback for how underrated Jamal has been over these many decades. Saturday Morning is a companion piece to Jamal's Blue Moon from 2011...
- jazztimes.com
2013-12-23
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDAhmad JamalSaturday Morning - Ahmad JamalJazz Village2013 Jamal has always been unpredictable; it's part of his charm, and at 83 he's as wayward as ever. Embarking on Duke Ellington's I Got it Bad, he finds snatches of other tunes by Duke keep occurring to him, so he stitches them into the fabric of his improvisation...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-10-27
★★★★★
Track Listing: Back To The Future; I'll Always Be With You; Saturday Morning; Edith's Cake; The Line; I'm In The Mood For Love; Firefly; Silver; I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good; One; Saturday Morning. Personnel: Ahmad Jamal: piano; Reginald Veal: double bass; Herlin Riley: drums; Manolo Badrena: percussion. Record Label: Jazz Village Style: Straight-ahead/Mainstream
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-10-21
★★★★★
"Play like Jamal," Miles Davis told his pianists in the mid 1950s. The trumpeter was not shy about recruiting band leaders or poaching their musicians, so you might suppose he canvassed Jamal. But the pianist maintains Davis never popped the question. Interviewed in 2012, he side-stepped the subject, saying that he was in any case too busy leading his own band to consider offers from Davis or anyone else. "I lived a block and a half from Miles when I moved to New York," Jamal continued...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-09-16
★★★★★
Since the 1950s, Ahmad Jamal has been coaxing jazz standards onto the dance floor. Taking his time, noting a song's curves and the rhythm of its step, he builds a simple, pulsing phrase in the left hand with all the circular motion of a swaying hip. Then he flips the cadence of the tune's original melody and fits it into the depths of his own groove...
- jazztimes.com
2012-07-09
★★★★★
More than sixty years after his first recordings, Ahmad Jamal continues to reinvent his playing. Exuding grace and a kind of perpetually youthful dignity, his sound has changed to keep pace with musical developments while remaining unique, mirroring the approach to standards that helped to secure his fame and recognition all those decades ago. Unlike 2010's A Quiet Time, recorded for Dreyfus, there are only three Jamal compositions on Blue Moon...
- dustedmagazine.com
2012-06-11
★★★★★
In 1958 Pianist Ahmad Jamal burst on the scene with At the Pershing: But Not for Me( Argo Records), which contained the runaway hit "Poinciana." The song's impact was such that it remains Jamal's signature tune to this day. As sometimes comes with popular success, some jazz critics pulled back, but his championing by other musicians, such as trumpeter Miles Davis in 1955?citing the pianist as one of his big influences?subdued their effect...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-03-22
★★★★★
These days, there is less of the spare, meticulously placed simplicity that made Jamal a major influence on Miles Davis, although his piano style remains notably clear and direct. He still does extraordinary and fascinating things to old standards, too. There's a really weird treatment of "The Gipsy" here, which I just can't get out of my head. But it's as an impressionist composer that the latterday Ahmad Jamal really excels...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-02-09
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