Jamal Legacy reissue

[Chuck Nessa]

If this has been mentioned previously let me know and I will delete the topic.

The notes by Hentoff (supposedly reproduced from the lp) are dated 1956 and he refers to Cannonball Adderley as "a former sideman of Miles! AND all the photo credits are for Don Hunstein (Columbia staff photographer) but the pic of Ray Crawford is obviously a Frank Wolff shot at Rudy's studio - undoubtedly from the Jimmy Smith / Bill Henderson date.

[Larry Kart]

Well, they could have reproduced the notes from the 1989 LP reissue ... by Stanley Crouch. Mr. C's ringing first sentence is: "Though no musician since 1945 has dominated the jazz scene with quite the overwhelming impact of Charlie Parker, it also is true that no single artist after the great alto saxophonist has been more important to the development of fresh form in jazz than Ahmad Jamal." We later learn that "The cues that Wynton Marsalis applies are rooted in Jamal..." And while it may or may not have been Mr. C's goof, this is nice: "Jamal rarely missed an opportunity to make the most of what each of his players could do, and the results brought qualities of group sound that were as impressive as those achieved by George Kirby's classic sextet." The Godfrey Cambridge Trio had a good sound too.

[Larry Kart]

As did the Arsenio Hall Singers.

[AllenLowe]

actually, I think he meant Durwood Kirby -

[jazzbo]

I heard there's a hidden track where Chuck Berry plays tenor.