Ahmad Jamal - Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings the Complete Okeh, Parrot & Epic Sessions 1951-1955 (2022)

Ahmad Jamal was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1930. He was a child prodigy. Fritz, as he was known, started playing the piano at the age of three, “…and I've been playing ever since,” he recalled. He began formal classical training at the age of seven and soon was immersed in the influence of various great jazz pianists —especially his idol Erroll Garner. “Everyone in Pittsburgh knew that young Fritz was a piano genius in the late 1940s, when he used to play in the wee hours of the morning in the dingy upstairs lounge of Musicians Local 471,” Harold L. Keith wrote in his column in early 1959 for the weekly Pittsburgh Courier, “...but it seemed that Fritz, like somany others, was destined to remain in the shadows...”
Tracklist
01. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Disc 1
02. Will You Still Be Mine? -Disc 1
03. Rica Pulpa - Disc 1
04. Perfidia - Disc 1
05. Aki and Ukthay (Brother and Sister) - Disc 1
06. Billy Boy - Disc 1
07. Ahmad's Blues - Disc 1
08. A Gal in Calico - Disc 1
09. But Not for Me - Disc 1
10. Excerpts from the Blues - Disc 1
11. It Could Happen to You - Disc 1
12. Seleritus - Disc 1
13. New Rhumba - Disc 1
14. A Foggy Day - Disc 1
15. All of You - Disc 1
16. It Aint Necessarily So - Disc 1
17. I Dont Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone but You) - Disc 1
18. I Get a Kick Out of You - Disc 1
19. Jeff - Disc 1
20. Darn That Dream - Disc 1
21. Spring Is Here - Disc 1
22. Perfidia - Disc 2
23. Slaughter on 10th Avenue - Disc 2
24. Old Devil Moon . Disc 2
25. Black Beauty - Disc 2
26. Don't Blame Me - Disc 2
27. Rica Pulpa - Disc 2
28. Autumn Leaves - Disc 2
29. Crazy He Calls Me - Disc 2
30. They Cant Take That Away from Me - Disc 2
31. It's Easy to Remember - Disc 2
32. Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me) - Disc 2
33. Something to Remember You By - Disc 2
34. Poinciana (The Song of the Tree) - Disc 2
35. The Donkey Serenade - Disc 2
36. Love for Sale - Disc 2
37. Pavanne - Disc 2