Picture Perfect (Ahmad Jamal album)

Picture Perfect
Studio album by Ahmad Jamal
Released	2001
Recorded	2001
Studio	Classic Sound & Millbrook Sound Studios, New York
Genre	Jazz
Label	Birdology, Warner Music France
Producer	Jean-François Deiber, J.F.D. Productions
Ahmad Jamal chronology
Ahmad Jamal with the Assai Quartet (1998) Picture Perfect (2001) À L'Olympia (2001)

Picture Perfect is a 2001 album by the American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, recorded in New York, at Classic Sound and Millbrook Sound Studios. Its full title is Picture Perfect: Ahmad Jamal With Special Guest Dr. O.C. Smith.

O. C. Smith (Ocie Lee Smith, 1932 – 2001) was a singer, and Ahmad's friend. After Picture Perfect, they were going to do another project together, dedicated to George Washington Carver, who was a friend of Smith's father, but O.C. passed away before they could start work on it.

Smith sings on two of the tracks on this album, "Whisperings" and "Picture Perfect", Jamal songs that, he said, "a lot of people don't know". Jamal felt that this album was "overlooked".

Track listing

1. "Building N°1" (Jamal) 6:30
2. "The Proving Ground" (Jamal) 4:12
3. "The Ritual" (Jamal) 2:03
4. "Whisperings" (Jamal, Aziza Miller) 6:32
5. "It Always Happens" (Jamal) 7:33
6. "My Latin" (Jamal, Miller) 5:46
7. "Spot One" (Jamal) 6:11
8. "Picture Perfect" (Jamal, Miller) 4:48
9. "Mystifying" (Jamal) 5:57
10. "The Blooming Flower" (Jamal) 5:21
11. "Ultra Violet" (Jamal) 4:53
12. "It's Only a Flower" (Jamal) 4:20

Personnel

• Ahmad Jamal – piano
• James Cammack, Jamil Nasser – bass
• Idris Muhammad – drums
• Mark Cargill – violin
• Aziza Miller, O.C. Smith – vocals