Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring trio performances recorded in San Francisco in 1962 and released on the Argo label.

This was the final recording of the Ahmad Jamal Trio featuring bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournier. Several months after it was made, Crosby died of a heart attack.[3] Jamal did not record another new trio album for more than two years—another live album titled Naked City Theme.

In a 1963 review of the original LP, the Jazz Journal wrote, "Jamal has a beautiful light touch, delicate and tuneful. His playing is polished and rhythmic, and in a sparse kind of fashion he swings quite pleasantly. ... He gets strong support from the late Israel Crosby, a really great bassist, and Fournier, whose brush work is very admirable." - Wikipedia

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All of You is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded at Jamal's own club in Chicago in 1961 and released on the Argo label. On the cover, photographed by Don Bronstein, one of the first staff photographers for Playboy magazine, Jamal sits in an MAA chair, designed by George Nelson.

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Jamal's group had a personal sound of its own, often playing quietly and leaving space but never losing the passion" = Wikipedia

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Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, featuring performances recorded at Jamal's own club in Chicago in 1961 and released on the Argo label.

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "The interplay between the musicians was often magical." - Wikipedia

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Clifford Jordan Quartet - Live at Ethell's

This P-Vine double-LP re-release of a 1987 Mapleshade CD is a fine example of a live set. Jordan's in typically great form, and he's joined by Kevin O'Connell (piano), Ed Howard (bass), and Vernel Fournier (drums).

P-Vine has put out three or four of these Jordan albums and they're all well worth picking up.

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on now: Ahmad Jamal Trio
Live at Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra, Chicago, late June 1961.

Waxtime In Color reissue, on neon-yellow 12" vinyl, with two bonus tracks from the same session not on the original lp.

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