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Ahmad Jamal at SFJAZZ Summer Session Series at SFJAZZ Center
Courtesy of Marshall Lamm | Posted on May 13, 2013
Where
SFJAZZ Center
SFJAZZ Summer Session Series
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA
Map
866.920.5299
When
Thu, June 13, 2013
8:30pm
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Musicians
Ahmad Jamal
pianoAbout
Pianist Ahmad Jamal brought a sense of space and subtlety to jazz improvisation that deeply affected Miles Davis and countless other jazz musicians inspired by them both. “He knocked me out with his concept of space, his lightness of touch, his understatement,” said the trumpeter, whose lyrical less-is-more style was indebted to the elegant pianist who rose to international fame in the late 1950s with the success of his Live at the Pershing recording. Jamal has continued to refine and expand his music ever since, composing new music, exploring harmonies and sonorities and working with younger musicians who fuel him...