Ahmad Jamal

For me, If there is one musician that doesn't speak a word but says a whole lot, its Ahmad Jamal. My little ears are pretty simple and to be spoken to so clearly by a piano puts him in the category of beautiful and open. I am constantly disheartened by the little cave that jazz musicians can crawl into once they begin to really learn their instrument. Since there are howevermany buttons/strings/frets/keys, it is tempting to count them and see how many one can play at how every fast a tempo, but to jump into the river of longing and to work toward expresssing it without words is something i instantly fall in love with.