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Ahmad Jamal

The art of the modern jazz piano trio

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 2/1/2008

Jazz critics, like pollsters and pundits, are often wrong. When in 1958 a relatively unknown twenty-eight-year-old pianist named Ahmad Jamal had a hit tune named "Poinciana" that stayed on the top-ten charts for weeks and weeks, he was dismissed as superficial and ephemeral. Half a century later, most of his detractors are gone, but Jamal is still

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