Blue moon

Description

"Blue Moon" is not just the new album by Ahmad Jamal. It is his new masterpiece, infused with an emotion that reminds us of his greatest hours, those of "Chess" and "Impulse!" "Blue Moon" consists of three majestic original compositions ("Autumn Rain", "I Remember Italy", "Morning Mist"), brilliant reinterpretations of American myths, film noir ("Laura"), Broadway ("Invitation", "This Is The Life"), popular song ("Gypsy"), the great history of jazz of course ("Woody'n You"), and this "Blue Moon" with its overwhelming intensity, which is in itself a summary of the new world, since it has been sung by Bill Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Mel Tormé - to name just a few? Each of the nine tracks that make up "Blue Moon" is a tribute to wide open spaces, a reinvention of swing, a pretext for melodic vertigo, a call to rhythmic syncopations that will take your breath away. Surrounded by three exceptional tempo keepers, Ahmad Jamal is at the peak of his art; once a virtuoso pianist of a genre called jazz, he is now the chief apostle of American classical music.