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Digital Works

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{{Infobox album

| name = Digital Works

| type = Album

| artist = Ahmad Jamal

| cover = Digital Works.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1985

| recorded = 1985

| venue =

| studio = Platinum City Studios, Dallas, Texas

| genre = Jazz

| length = 57:10

| label = Atlantic 781 258-1

| producer = Ahmad Jamal and James Snyder

| chronology = Ahmad Jamal

| prev_title = American Classical Music (Ahmad Jamal album)

| prev_year = 1982

| next_title = Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985

| next_year = 1985

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}

}}

Digital Works is an album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances digitally recorded in 1985 and released on the Atlantic label.[http://www.ahmadjamal.net/Discography_Ahmad_Jamal.html Ahmad Jamal discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527035512/http://www.ahmadjamal.net/Discography_Ahmad_Jamal.html |date=2012-05-27 }} accessed May 25, 2012

Critical reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls the album, "Good music overall, but not essential."Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/digital-works-r141390 Allmusic Review] accessed May 25, 2012 However, Bob Karlovits of The Pittsburgh Press wrote positively of the album upon its release: "Jamal is one of those few musicians who can take a shopworn tune and find an element that no one else has," adding "in his hands, these songs sparkle," and calling Digital Works "top notch in all ways."{{Cite news |last=Karlovits |first=Bob |date=1985 |title=Ahmad Jamal's Talent Sparkles |pages=28 |work=The Pittsburgh Press}}

Track listing

  1. "Poinciana" (Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon) – 8:26
  2. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:33
  3. "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer) – 3:20
  4. "Footprints" (Wayne Shorter) – 5:13
  5. "Once Upon a Time" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) – 3:17
  6. "One" (Sigidi Abdullah) – 7:16
  7. "La Costa" (Natalie Cole, Linda Williams) – 5:22
  8. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 3:58
  9. "Theme From M*A*S*H" (Mike Altman, Johnny Mandel) – 6:30
  10. "Biencavo" (Ahmad Jamal) – 4:27
  11. "Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 6:39
  12. "Wave" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 5:22

Personnel

References

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Category:Atlantic Records albums

Category:Ahmad Jamal albums

Category:1985 albums