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The AwakeningReleased: 1970Ahmad Jamal

LINER NOTES: Ahmad Jamal, The Awakening (1970)

By: Leonard Feather

The evolution of contemporary piano has brought to the forefront three main types of artists. There are the primitives, who have fashioned out of a relatively limited technique some special idiomatic approach (the boogie woogie pioneers come most readily to mind). Second, there are the sophisticates, well equipped academically, men whose performances are beyond technical reproach though at times an emotional element may be lacking. The third category comprises those pianists who are able to bring to their work the passion of the first group along with the musicianly values of the second.

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