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Ahmad Jamal: Greasepaint Roar

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Marc Myers
Aug 28, 2017
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When Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's musical The Roar of the Greasepaint — the Smell of the Crowd opened on Broadway in 1965, it was a followup to their hit collaboration on Stop the World — I Want to Get Off from 1962. The earlier musical gave us two massive pop standards: Once in a Lifetime and What Kind of Fool Am I, with two lesser hits: Someon…

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