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Freeflight (album)

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Released
  
1971

Length
  
27:07

Artist
  
Ahmad Jamal

Label
  
Impulse! Records

Recorded
  
June 17, 1971

Producer
  
Ed Michel

Release date
  
1971

Genre
  
Jazz

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Freeflight (1971)
  
Outertimeinnerspace (1971)

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Ahmad Jamal at the Top, Outertimeinnerspace, I Remember Duke - Ho, Cry Young, Ahmad Jamal Plays

Freeflight is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1971 for the Impulse! label. Additional performances from this concert were released as Outertimeinnerspace in 1972. It was also the first album to have Jamal play electric piano. The Rhodes Piano was given to him by somebody living in Switzerland, and Jamal said he would continue to play the instrument in the future as well as his standard acoustic piano.

Contents

Critical reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "one of pianist Ahmad Jamal's finest recordings of the early '70s... An excellent effort".

Track listing

All compositions by Ahmad Jamal except as indicated
  1. Introduction – 0:53
  2. "Effendi" (McCoy Tyner) – 11:27
  3. "Dolphin Dance" (Herbie Hancock) – 4:51
  4. "Manhattan Reflections" – 10:00
  5. "Poinciana" (Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon) – 11:28
  • Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the Casino De Montreux in Switzerland on June 17, 1971
  • Personnel

  • Ahmad Jamal – piano, electric piano
  • Jamil Nasser – bass
  • Frank Gant – drums
  • References

    Freeflight (album) Wikipedia