Macanudo (album)

Macanudo is an album by the American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal of performances by Jamal with an orchestra conducted by Richard Evans. It was recorded in 1962 and released on the Argo label.[1]

Macanudo
Studio album by
Ahmad Jamal
Released1963
RecordedDecember 20 & 23, 1962
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length26:04
LabelArgo
LPS-712
Producer26:05
Ahmad Jamal chronology
Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk
(1962)		 Macanudo
(1963)		 Poinciana
(1963)

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz[3]

AllMusic awarded the album 2 stars.[2]

A reviewer for Billboard wrote: "The album is a solid pop item, a fine thing for change of pace programming... It's very lyric in content and full of gentle and verveful melody with rhythm."[4]

Simon Sweetman, writing for Off the Tracks, called the albumn "wonderful," and praised "the way [Jamal's] lines just coast so easily, effortlessly across the rhythm of each piece." He concluded: "A class act, of course. And something a little different within his vast, impeccable canon of music."[5]

A writer for Ambient Exotica described the album as "something truly special" and "a gem," and commented: "Macanudo... has it all: Latin duskiness, a string-fueled magnificence, brass-infused heterodynes as well as true-to-form Jazz flavors... The album just feels great."[6]

Track listing

All compositions by Richard Evans

  1. "Montevideo" – 2:57
  2. "Bogota" – 4:00
  3. "Sugar Loaf at Twilight" – 3:14
  4. "Haitian Marketplace" – 2:57
  5. "Buenos Aires" – 3:59
  6. "Bossa Nova Do Marilla" – 2:56
  7. "Carnival in Panama" – 3:29
  8. "Belo Horizonte" – 2:32

Personnel

References
  1. "Ahmad Jamal discography". Archived from the original on 2012-05-27. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
    - "Argo/Cadet discography (LP 700 to LP 799)", Jazzlists. Retrieved September 8, 2018.
    - Argo Album Discography, Part 1: Jazz Series (1956-1965). Retrieved September 8, 2018.
  2. Allmusic review. Retrieved May 21, 20121
  3. Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 220.
  4. "Album Reviews". Billboard. April 27, 1963. p. 27.
  5. Sweetman, Simon (July 2, 2015). "Ahmad Jamal: Macanudo". Off the Tracks. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  6. "Ahmad Jamal: Macanudo". Ambient Exotica. August 17, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2022.


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