The Awakening

Ahmad Jamal · 1970 · Morceau-titre, composition de Jamal

Context

Title track of the album recorded in February 1970 for Impulse!. Leonard Feather writes that Jamal plays a series of ascending runs here that will leave most pianists speechless.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Soul jazz, boogaloo, Spiritual jazz. Among the origins and influences of Soul jazz, boogaloo: Hard bop, Jump blues, R&B, Gospel.

By the same artist

• Patterns (1970)
• Poinciana (1958)

Sources

• EN: The Awakening (Ahmad Jamal album)

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