I Remember Duke Hoagy & Strayhorn

Ahmad Jamal | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (January 24, 1995)
• Label: Telarc
• ASIN: B000003CQY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,844,080 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My Flower

2. I Got It Bad

3. In a Sentimental Mood

4. Ruby

5. Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know)

6. Prelude to a Kiss

7. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me

8. Chelsea Bridge

9. I Remember Hoagy

10. Skylark

11. Never Let Me Go

12. Goodbye

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Piano, June 11, 2001

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Ahmed Chronwell (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn (Audio CD)

Miles Davis always lavished Jamal with praise for his minimal playing of notes saying that Jamal did'nt "throw his style around" and the economy of notes can be heard prevalently in most of the Dark Prince's post-Kind of Blue records. This album from '95 perfectly embodies Jamal's economic style on a collection of Ellington classics. He does Skylark and a great original, too effectively showing his patient and technically mind-blowing style. Telarc is a really cool label that always releases quality jazz by the top veterans and I recommend most releases from them, even though their album art is cheap and could use improvement, but image is nothing, music is the message.

4.0 out of 5 stars It never gets fresher than this, June 1, 2011

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AFRICAN JAZZ - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn (Audio CD)

Certainly there are groups that put a premium on swing, others runs through changes, others like melodies and freedom. Ahmad Jamal certainly swings and swings hard too, but he loves space, vamps, ostinato, abrupt tempo changes, dynamics, flourishes, reconstructing tunes. Ephraim (bass) is the anchor to hold you down and Arti colours the space as Ahmad takes off and swirls, playing quiet as a mouse and suddenly exploding.

The most frustrating thing to me about this CD is that you don't know what volume to set your music system at, they play beautiful melodies and you are tempted to crank it up to hear Jamal and the next thing squirrels and birds are scattering as you run for the remote to turn it down. (Hint: The bass should be your volume guide too).

All in all a recording that you mine for melodic nuggets for a very long time.

5.0 out of 5 stars A particularly good recording, November 20, 2009

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James Deforest (Greenville, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn (Audio CD)

I have listened to Ahmad Jamal for some period of time now and I find this recording stands out.
The introductory composition by Mr. Jamal is skillfully crafted, subtle, moving and sets the stage as he executes his unique approach to the standards comprising the balance of the CD.
The rhythm section is restrained and his piano sings in full complexity of his individual "voice".

Currently being "cut out" of the Telarc catalogue; buy this recording before it disappears.