Ahmad Jamal
Day 9
#59 Ahmad Jamal (b. 1930) born as Frederick Russell Jones. American jazz pianist, composer and educator. Albums include: At The Pershing – But Not For Me (1958) featuring the recording Poinciana, Ahmad’s Blues (1958) and All of You (1961).
Miles Davis, in his 1989 autobiography, stated that Jamal had “knocked me out with his concept of space, his lightness of touch, his understatement”. So I wanted to try and create something simple and understated. The album ‘Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not For Me’ is one of Jamal’s most well known albums. This became the starting point. I used this title and created something typographic and whilst I liked the simplicity, it needed something more and the grand piano shape was introduced. After experimenting a little more I thought the title could act as the piano keys and this became the solution.
1.5 hours
One of the early designs
Listen...
to excerpts from ‘At The Pershing – But Not For Me’