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Freeflight is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the Casino De Montreux in Switzerland on June 17, 1971 for the Impulse! label. Additional performances from this concert were released as Outertimeinnerspace in 1972. It was also the first album to have Jamal play electric piano. The Rhodes Piano was given to him by somebody living in Switzerland, and Jamal said he would continue to play the instrument in the future as well as his standard acoustic piano. This recording from the 1971 Montreux Jazz Festival has one of pianist Ahmad Jamal's finest recordings of the early '70s. Performing with bassist Jamil Sulieman Nasser and drummer Frank Gant, Jamal shows that his basic style has evolved since the 1950s but is still quite recognizable. He uses the electric piano as a double for color and stretches out on three numbers (including a remake of his hit "Poinciana") in addition to playing a five minute version of Herbie Hancock's "Dolphin Dance." An excellent effort. Tracklist All compositions by Ahmad Jamal except as indicated 01 Introduction - 0:53 02 Effendi - 11:27 03 Dolphin Dance (Herbie Hancock) - 4:51 04 Manhattan Reflections - 10:00 05 Poinciana (Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon) - 11:28 Personnel Ahmad Jamal - piano, electric piano Jamil Nasser - bass Frank Gant - drums User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
