Ahmad Jamal: Eight Classic Albums

Tracklist

• CD 1: Count Em 88 (1956)/ Ahmad Jamal Trio at the Spotlight Cafe (1958)
• 1
  Volga Boatman
  3:44
• 2
  Green Dolphin Street
  3:18
• 3
  How About You
  5:26
• 4
  I Just Can't See for Looking
  2:02
• 5
  Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
  2:37
• 6
  Beat Out One
  5:24
• 7
  Maryam
  3:37
• 8
  Easy to Remember
  5:36
• 9
  Jim Love Sue
  2:53
• 10
  Stompin' at the Savoy

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  4:16
• 11
  That's All

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  2:38
• 12
  Girl Next Door

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:26
• 13
  Squatty Roo

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  2:18
• 14
  Autumn in New York

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:18
• 15
  Taboo

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  4:02
• 16
  Secret Love

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:51
• 17
  Should I

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:39
• 18
  I Wish I Knew

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:45
• CD 2: But Not for Me - Ahmad Jamal Live at the Pershing (1958)/ Jamal at the Penthouse (1959)
• 1
  But Not for Me

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:32
• 2
  Surrey with the Fringe on Top

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  2:35
• 3
  Moonlight in Vermont

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:09
• 4
  (Put Another Nickel In) Music Music Music

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  2:56
• 5
  No Greater Love

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:26
• 6
  Poinciana

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  8:07
• 7
  Woody n' You

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:40
• 8
  What's New

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  4:11
• 9
  Comme Ci, Comme Ca
  2:11
• 10
  Ivy
  3:58
• 11
  Never Never Land
  3:06
• 12
  Tangerine
  4:16
• 13
  Ahmads Blues
  2:59
• 14
  Seleritus
  1:41
• 15
  I Like to Recognize the Tune
  3:08
• 16
  I'm Alone with You
  2:38
• 17
  Sophisticated Gentleman
  4:08
• 18
  Poinciana (Single Version)

  Ahmad Jamal Trio
  3:03
• CD 3: Happy Moods (1960)/ All of You (1961)
• 1
  Little Old Lady
  5:15
  4.0 ★
• 2
  You'd Be So Easy to Love
  3:19
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Time on My Hands
  1:35
• 4
  For All We Know
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 5
  I'll Never Stop Loving You
  3:01
• 6
  Pavanne
  5:44
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Excerpt from the Blues
  3:02
• 8
  Rain Check
  4:41
• 9
  Speak Low
  4:53
• 10
  Rhumba No. 2
  2:37
• 11
  Time on My Hands
  6:19
• 12
  Angel Eyes
  4:15
• 13
  You Go to My Head
  10:56
• 14
  Star Eyes
  5:55
• 15
  All of You
  5:00
• 16
  You're Blasé
  3:28
• 17
  What Is This Thing Called Love?
  6:04
• CD 4: Chamber Music of the New Jazz (1955)/ Standard Eyes (1961)
• 1
  New Rhumba
  4:39
• 2
  A Foggy Day
  4:23
• 3
  All of You
  3:15
• 4
  It Ain't Necessarily So
  3:00
• 5
  I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)
  3:25
• 6
  I Get a Kick Out of You
  4:50
• 7
  Jeff
  4:52
• 8
  Darn That Dream
  3:10
• 9
  Spring Is Here
  4:01
• 10
  Billy Boy
  2:59
• 11
  Sweet and Lovely
  3:53
• 12
  I Didn't Know What Time It Was
  4:28
• 13
  Taboo
  3:54
• 14
  I'll Never Stop Loving You
  3:00
• 15
  I'll Remember April
  2:42
• 16
  So Beats My Heart for You
  3:34
• 17
  For All We Know
  2:42
• 18
  The Breeze and I
  2:16
• 19
  Like Someone in Love
  2:46
• 20
  Angel Eyes
  4:08
• 21
  The Girl Next Door
  3:20

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Release credits

• Ahmad Jamal
  piano [4.1-21, 2.2-12, 2.15-16, 3.1-17]
• Alex Cores
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Alvin Rudnitsky
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Bernard Eichen
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Bertrand Hirsch
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Dave Usher
  producer [2.2-12, 2.15-16, 4.1-9]
• David Soyer
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Felix Orlewitz
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Gene Orloff
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• George Brown
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Harry Katzman
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Harry Lookofsky
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Isadore Zir
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Israel Crosby
  bass [3.1-11, 3.14, 3.17, 4.10-21, 2.9-12, 2.15-16], double bass [4.1-9, 2.2-8, 3.11-17]
• Jack Tracy
  producer [1-10]
• Joe Kennedy
  arranger [9-12, 15-16], conductor [9-12, 15-16]
• Leo Kruczek
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Leonard Chess
  producer [11-17]
• Lucien Schmit
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Malcolm Chisholm
  recording [2-12, 15-16]
• Ray Crawford
  guitar [1-9]
• Ron Malo
  engineer [1-17], recording [11, 14, 17]
• Seymour Miroff
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Sylvan Shulman
  strings [9-12, 15-16]
• Tommy Nola
  recording [9-12, 15-16]
• Vernell Fournier
  drums (drum set) [3.1-17, 4.10-21, 2.2-12, 2.15-16]
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Issues

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  Ahmad Jamal: Eight Classic Albums

  4x CD
  1 January 2013