Blue Moon is not just Ahmad Jamal’s latest album, it’s his latest masterpiece, with a predominant feeling reminiscent of his greatest periods on Chess and Impulse! Three original compositions of great majesty (Autumn Rain, I Remember Italy, Morning Mist), some brilliant new interpretations of different chapters of the American myth: the flm noir, (Laura), Broadway (Invitation, This Is The Life), popular songs (Gypsy), then, not surprisingly, the great story of jazz (Woody‘n You) and this overwhelmingly intense Blue Moon – which in itself sums up the New World, for it’s been sung by Bill Monroe, Elvis Presley and Mel Tormé, amongst many others…

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