Macanudo (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Macanudo
| type = Album
| artist = Ahmad Jamal
| cover = Macanudo (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1963
| recorded = December 20 & 23, 1962
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
| genre = Jazz
| length = 26:04
| label = Argo
LPS-712
| producer = 26:05
| chronology = Ahmad Jamal
| prev_title = Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk
| prev_year = 1962
| next_title = Poinciana
| next_year = 1963
}}
Macanudo is an album by jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal of performances by Jamal with an orchestra conducted by Richard Evans. It was recorded in 1962 and released on the Argo label.{{cite web|url=http://www.ahmadjamal.net/Discography_Ahmad_Jamal.html |title=Ahmad Jamal discography |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527035512/http://www.ahmadjamal.net/Discography_Ahmad_Jamal.html |archivedate=2012-05-27|accessdate= May 21, 2012}}
- [http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Argo_Cadet_700.htm "Argo/Cadet discography (LP 700 to LP 799)"], Jazzlists. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
- [https://www.bsnpubs.com/chess/argo600.html Argo Album Discography, Part 1: Jazz Series (1956-1965)]. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
|rev2 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz |publisher=Virgin Books |year=1999 |pages=220 }}
}}
AllMusic awarded the album 2 stars.[http://www.allmusic.com/album/macanudo-r141400 Allmusic review]. Retrieved May 21, 20121
A reviewer for Billboard wrote: "The album is a solid pop item, a fine thing for change of pace programming... It's very lyric in content and full of gentle and verveful melody with rhythm."{{cite magazine |date=April 27, 1963 |title=Album Reviews |magazine=Billboard |pages=27}}
Simon Sweetman, writing for Off the Tracks, called the album "wonderful" and praised "the way [Jamal's] lines just coast so easily, effortlessly across the rhythm of each piece". He concluded: "A class act, of course. And something a little different within his vast, impeccable canon of music."{{cite web |url=https://offthetracks.co.nz/ahmad-jamal-macanudo |title=Ahmad Jamal: Macanudo |first=Simon |last=Sweetman |date=July 2, 2015 |website=Off the Tracks |access-date=September 2, 2022}}
A writer for Ambient Exotica described the album as "something truly special" and "a gem", and commented: "Macanudo... has it all: Latin duskiness, a string-fueled magnificence, brass-infused heterodynes as well as true-to-form Jazz flavors... The album just feels great."{{cite web |url=http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev250_ahmadjamal_macanudo |title=Ahmad Jamal: Macanudo |date=August 17, 2013 |website=Ambient Exotica |access-date=September 20, 2022}}
Track listing
All compositions by Richard Evans
- "Montevideo" – 2:57
- "Bogota" – 4:00
- "Sugar Loaf at Twilight" – 3:14
- "Haitian Marketplace" – 2:57
- "Buenos Aires" – 3:59
- "Bossa Nova Do Marilla" – 2:56
- "Carnival in Panama" – 3:29
- "Belo Horizonte" – 2:32
Personnel
- Ahmad Jamal – piano - except track 3, celesta
- Art Davis – double bass
- Orchestra conducted by Richard Evans
References
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