Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal

Live album by

Ahmad Jamal

Released

1959

Recorded

September 5–6, 1958
The Spotlight Club, DC

Genre

Jazz

Label

Argo
LPS-638

Ahmad Jamal chronology

Ahmad Jamal Trio Volume IV
(1958)

Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal
(1959)

Jamal at the Penthouse
(1959)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded live on location at the Spotlite Club in Washington, DC on September 5–6, 1958 and released on Argo in 1959.^[2] It includes additional selections from the engagement where Ahmad Jamal Trio Volume IV was recorded, and the complete recordings from these shows were released on 2007's Complete Live at the Spotlight Club 1958 on the Gambit label. The original release was a 2-LP set. Pianist Keith Jarrett has said this album changed his life.^[3]

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Reception

AllMusic rates the album 3 out of 5 stars.^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Ahmad Jamal except as indicated

"This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert)
"Ahmad's Blues"
"Old Devil Moon" (E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Burton Lane)
"Serelitus"
"It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen)
"Ivy" (Hoagy Carmichael)
"Tater Pie" (Irving Ashby)
"Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
"Aki and Ukthay (Brother & Sister)"
"You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene DePaul, Don Raye)
"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
"So Beats My Heart for You" (Pat Ballard, Charles Henderson, Tom Waring)
"Gal in Calico" (Leo Robin, Arthur Schwartz)
"Our Delight" (Tadd Dameron)

Personnel

Ahmad Jamal – piano
Israel Crosby – double bass
Vernel Fournier – drums

References

^ ^a ^b Allmusic Review accessed November 25, 2016
^ Ahmad Jamal discography Archived 2017-02-21 at the Wayback Machine accessed November 25, 2016
^ "Keith Jarrett: Alone in a Crowded Room". jazztimes.com. Retrieved December 31, 2017.

v t e Ahmad Jamal
Studio albums	Ahmad Jamal Plays (1955) The Ahmad Jamal Trio (1955) Count 'Em 88 (1956) The Piano Scene of Ahmad Jamal (1959) Jamal at the Penthouse (1959) Happy Moods (1960) Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet (1960) Macanudo (1962) The Roar of the Greasepaint (1965) Extensions (1965) Rhapsody (1966) Heat Wave (1966) Cry Young (1967) The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful (1968) Tranquility (1968) The Awakening (1970) Ahmad Jamal '73 (1973) Jamalca (1974) Jamal Plays Jamal (1974) Genetic Walk (1975) Steppin' Out with a Dream (1976) One (1978) Intervals (1980) Night Song (1980) Digital Works (1985) Rossiter Road (1986) Crystal (1987) Pittsburgh (1989) I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn (1994) The Essence Part One (1995) Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2 (1995) Nature: The Essence Part Three (1997) Ballades (2019)
Live albums	Ahmad Jamal Trio Volume IV (1958) At the Pershing: But Not for Me (1958) At the Pershing, Vol. 2 (1958) Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal (1958) Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra (1961) All of You (1961) Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk (1962) Poinciana (1963) Naked City Theme (1964) Ahmad Jamal at the Top: Poinciana Revisited (1968) Freeflight (1971) Outertimeinnerspace (1972) Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's (1976) Live at Bubba's (1980) In Concert (1981) Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985 (1985) Live in Paris 1992 (1992) Chicago Revisited: Live At Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase (1992) Complete Live at the Pershing Lounge 1958 (2007) Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (2007)
Compilations	Standard Eyes (1967)

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