Ahmad Jamal - Greatest Hits (2018) MP3/FLAC

Tracklist
01. A Foggy Day
02. Feeling Good
03. For All We Know
04. I Hear A Rhapsody
05. Speak Low
06. This Could Be the Start of Something
07. You'd Be So Easy to Love
08. All of You
09. Darn That Dream
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. It Ain't Necessarily So
12. Spring Is Here
13. Time On My Hands
14. The Shadow Of Your Smile
15. Extensions

One of the most individualistic pianists, composers, and arrangers of his generation, Ahmad Jamal's disciplined technique and minimalist style had a huge impact on trumpeter Miles Davis, and Jamal is often cited as contributing to the development of cool jazz throughout the 1950s. Though Jamal was a highly technically proficient player, well-versed in the gymnastic idioms of swing and bebop, he chose to play in a more pared down and nuanced style. Which is to say that while he played with the skill of a virtuoso, it was often what he chose not to play that marked him as an innovator. Influenced by such pianists as Errol Garner, Art Tatum, and Nat King Cole, as well as big-band and orchestral music, Jamal developed his own boundary-pushing approach to modern jazz that incorporated an abundance of space, an adept use of tension and release, unexpected rhythmic phrasing and dynamics, and a highly melodic, compositional style.