Ahmad Jamal - Emerald City Nights: Live At The Penthouse

[mjzee]

Release date December 2:

Never before released Ahmad Jamal set from the 1960s recorded at the Penthouse Jazz Club in Seattle. Remastered audio transferred from the original tape reels. This 2CD set includes an extensive booklet with previously unpublished photos from Chuck Stewart and Don Bronstein; essays by jazz writer Eugene Holley Jr. and producer Zev Feldman; plus interviews with Ahmad Jamal, Jon Batiste, Kenny Barron, Aaron Diehl and Marshall Chess.

Never before released Ahmad Jamal set from the 1960s recorded at the Penthouse Jazz Club in Seattle. Remastered audio transferred from the original tape reels. This 2CD set includes an extensive booklet with previously unpublished photos from Chuck Stewart and Don Bronstein; essays by jazz writer Eugene Holley Jr. and producer Zev Feldman; plus interviews with Ahmad Jamal, Jon Batiste, Kenny Barron, Aaron Diehl and Marshall Chess.

[Ken Dryden]

Nice stuff, they both arrived recently. One can only imagine what Jim Wilkie's tape archive must be like from the days of the Penthouse broadcasts.

[Dan Gould]

Clearly the agreement was between Wilkie and Zev as he doesn't seem to be putting these out on Resonance anymore. I wonder if he's even connected to the label nowadays.  He's now got Jazz Detective plus he's worked with Cory Weeds on the Reel to Real label and of course some connection with BN.

[hbbfam]

14 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

Nice stuff, they both arrived recently. One can only imagine what Jim Wilkie's tape archive must be like from the days of the Penthouse broadcasts.

Happy with the sound?

[Ken Dryden]

Quite good!

[mikeweil]

Who are the sidemen on this one?

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Who are the sidemen on this one?

Some info came out in this earlier thread:

 

[hbbfam]

19 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

Quite good!

How many tracks are on the CDs?  The record store day lp has 10.

[Ken Dryden]

One two CD set has ten tracks, the other one has nine. The final track of the second CD in both sets is faded out.

 

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Ken Dryden

[hbbfam]

That seems like a lot of music to crowd onto 2 LPs.  The Times article said 2.5 hr of music (total).

[Ken Dryden]

There is not two and half hours in either set.

Here's the Discogs link I created for the 1963-1964 set:

https://www.discogs.com/release/24945286-Ahmad-Jamal-Emerald-City-Nights-Live-At-The-Penthouse-1963-1964

The link for the 1965-1966 set:

https://www.discogs.com/release/24945652-Ahmad-Jamal-Emerald-City-Nights-Live-At-The-Penthouse-1965-1966

[hbbfam]

Wow, the 63-64 would almost fit on one CD, the 65-66 easily on 1 CD.  I thing the NYT article implied that there was 2.5 total combining both releases, but obviously that was a bit of an exaggeration.

Thanks for the details.  Can't wait to get them.

[BFrank]

My friend Mazzy did an interview with Zev Feldman yesterday. Check it out.

 

[Adam]

Still working with Resonance.  He lists various things coming up in the next year on various labels in this article in Variety this week:

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/record-store-day-jazz-detective-zev-feldman-ahmad-jamal-vinyl-exclusive-rsd-1235441748/

[mikeweil]

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Next year we’re gonna be looking at releasing previously unreleased recordings by the legendary jazz vibraphonist Cal Tjader, and that will be a two-CD/three-LP set. 

Yeah!!! 😃

[tranemonk]

I'm very interested in this but I'm confused. I found a photo that shows a 3rd double CD set but I can't find any info - any where about the 3rd set. Why isn't it being released with the other two? Anybody got any info? thanks.

[thirdtry]

It's my understanding that the third set will be released in 2023.

[Teasing the Korean]

So if I were going to buy only one of these two sets, which should I get?

[jazzbo]

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[kh1958]

They are both real good.

[hbbfam]

They are both very similar and both quite good.  Cannot imagine not having all three.

[felser]

3 different rhythm sections on the 65/66 set, and I prefer the repertoire on it also.

[Teasing the Korean]

Thanks all!  Lossless downloads on Qobuz are $10.99 for the first and $9.99 for the second.  This may be the way to go.

[thirdtry]

I'm seeing a release date of Dec. 1st for the final Ahmad Jamal Emerald City Nights CD release (1966-1968) and also the Cal Tjader 2CD set Catch the Groove: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967.  Both are coming from Elemental.

[hbbfam]

On 9/4/2023 at 12:59 PM, thirdtry said:

I'm seeing a release date of Dec. 1st for the final Ahmad Jamal Emerald City Nights CD release (1966-1968) and also the Cal Tjader 2CD set Catch the Groove: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967.  Both are coming from Elemental.

Is the Ahmad up for pre-order anywhere?

Edited September 12, 2023 by hbbfam