LP-691

Ahmad Jamal - All Of You

Released 1962

Recording and Session Information

Ahmad Jamal Trio
Ahmad Jamal, piano; Israel Crosby, bass; Vernel Fournier, drums
Live "The Alhambra", Chicago, IL, late June 1961

For full set list, see LP-685

11102 Ahmad Jamal You're blase
11103 Ahmad Jamal You go to my head
11106 Ahmad Jamal All of you
11108 Ahmad Jamal What is this thing called love?
11109 Ahmad Jamal Star eyes
11115 Ahmad Jamal Time on my hands
11116 Ahmad Jamal Angel eyes

Track Listing

Time On My Hands	Adamson, Gordon, Youmans	June 1961
Angel Eyes	Brent, Dennis	June 1961
You Go To My Head	Gillespie, Coots	June 1961
Star Eyes	Raye, DePaul	June 1961
All Of You	Cole Porter	June 1961
You're Blase	Sievier, Hamilton	June 1961
What Is This Thing Called Love	Cole Porter	June 1961

Liner Notes

The Ahmad Jamal Trio was formed in May - 1951. At that time we were using Guitar - Ray Crawford and Bass - Tommy Sowell.

We started recording in 1952. I had been trying to sell the idea spasmodically since 1949, when I made certain efforts in this direction toward some of the most likely recording companies at that time...unsuccessfully.

I will always remember my very dear and long time acquaintance Chris Powell (whose group most of you "informed afflcienados" wouldn't remember the late Clifford Brown being a part of). Chris' group made the first demonstration pressings with me in Toronto . where he was working at the time and I was accompanying a group of singers called "The Caldwells."

Since then much has taken place....recording and otherwise, including some "5" Star record ratings (whatever that means....Ahmad's Blues, etc.,...Down Beat Magazine) as early as 1952 when the group was virtually unheard of.

I was fortunate enough to grow up with and around such musicians as Thomas Turrentine, Joe Harris, Harold Holt, Joe Kennedy, Sam Johnson, Edgar Willis, and also share the rich heritage that Pittsburgh Roy Eldridge, Erroll Garner, Dodo Marmarosa, Ray Brown, Art Blakely, Earl Hines, Billy Eckstein, Billy Strayhorn and many many others, including some personalities that are synonymous with Pittsburgh....LeRoy Brown, Honey Boy Minor, William Hitchcock, Joe Westray, etc.

Pittsburgh was and still is a formidable territory for transient musicians, with sessions going on into the early hours of the morning. Such musicians as Jerry Elliott, Billy Lewis, Bass McMahon and the musicians who hadn't started playing then and are doing so well now (Stanley Turrentine and others) playing Host.

This present L. P. was recorded in one of the most enjoyable and most compatible atmospheres that I have ever known, as far as clubs go.....The AlHambra.....not saying this because we own same, but because so many club owners and promoters could take a lesson from the Artist's approach toward working facilities for the musicians and singers.

The acoustics; the piano, the lighting, the atmosphere, could only be conducive to one thing.......a happy result and here it is.

AHMAD JAMAL