Five years after Herbie Hancock set sail with his 1965 masterpiece Maiden Voyage, another great pianist released a masterpiece of his own. That pianist was the influential Ahmad Jamal and the album is The Awakening, released in 1970 on Impulse!, which contains a beautiful version of Hancock’s track ‘Dolphin Dance’.
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The Gil Evans Orchestra – La Nevada
Last time (and first time) on Jazz Impressions you heard Elvin Jones, who plays shakers here on ‘La Nevada’, because if someone has to play shakers it might as well be the greatest drummer who ever lived.
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