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Powerful Piano

Ahmed Chronwell | Washington DC | 06/11/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Miles Davis always lavished Jamal with praise for his minimal playing of notes saying that Jamal did'nt "throw his style around" and the economy of notes can be heard prevalently in most of the Dark Prince's post-Kind of Blue records. This album from '95 perfectly embodies Jamal's economic style on a collection of Ellington classics. He does Skylark and a great original, too effectively showing his patient and technically mind-blowing style. Telarc is a really cool label that always releases quality jazz by the top veterans and I recommend most releases from them, even though their album art is cheap and could use improvement, but image is nothing, music is the message."