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...The approach is rooted in the work of visionary American pianist Ahmad Jamal, but brings in swaths of contemporary influences....
...Pianist Ahmad Jamal’s dynamic touch and gripping group narratives are well-documented on disc, and his influence on Miles Davis established....
...But Endeavor founder Ari Emanuel backed out after Saudi agents murdered veteran journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
...Some observers think pressure on Moscow could eventually work, like Craig Kennedy, a Russian oil expert at Harvard’s Davis Center....
...In this Guardian long read, scholar Aeron Davis argues that it deserves more scrutiny....
...Later, the voice of Mumia Abu-Jamal spells out the power of social movements and a recording of a protest chant: “This is what community looks like” confirms the music’s agitational intent....
...The vivid impressionism and beguiling narratives that Ahmad Jamal created in the late 1950s were a fresh approach to piano trio jazz that captivated Miles Davis and delivered a live album hit....
...The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October briefly soured Saudi’s relations with some of the world’s largest lenders....
...McLoughlin was a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Sarbajeet Nag has joined Milbank as a partner in the law firm’s European leveraged finance and capital markets group in London....
...The melody and use of chords are indebted to a mid-1950s cover of Morton Gould’s “Pavanne” by Ahmad Jamal, one of Davis’s favourite pianists....
...Ahmad Jamal’s sharp-suited rhythms and hipster’s sense of space were drawing accolades even before he released his first recordings in the mid-1950s – an up-and-coming Miles Davis was to claim that “all...
...Ahmad Jamal received plaudits for his sensitive touch and acute sense of time even before the late Miles Davis told his first rhythm sections to “play like Jamal”....
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