The pianist Ahmad Jamal, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 92, needs no introduction. Suffice it to say that this NEA Jazz Master and Lifetime Grammy Award recipient was one of the most popular ...

During the politically and culturally turbulent late 1960s and '70s, many jazz musicians attempted to appeal to a younger and more diverse audience that grew up listening to artists such as James ...

A beloved piano player and composer, Jamal’s unique sound influenced fellow jazz greats Miles Davis and McCoy Tyner, as well as a generation of crate-digging hip-hop lyricists and producers who ...

Jamal was a touring mainstay and prolific recording artist and pioneered a radical new direction in the post-bebop era. He was famous for his use of space—one could argue that the cliché of ...

Ahmad Jamal, one of the most elegant, eloquent and influential pianists and composers in modern jazz, died on Sunday, his wife, Laura Hess-Hey, and his daughter, Sumayah Jamal, told the Washington Pst ...

The jazz world has lost yet another legend. Pianist Ahmad Jamal died Sunday afternoon in Massachusetts at the age of 92. Jamal was known for his more minimalist approach to his playing, a contrast to ...

ST. LOUIS — American jazz music mourns the irreplaceable loss of Ahmad Jamal, an incredible pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator, whose eight-decade career helped changed the direction of jazz ...

Jamal was born in Pittsburgh, broke through with his small group music in Chicago in the 1950s, and recorded scores of records through 2016 — a 65-year recording career. He died April 16. This is ...

For most jazz performers, a song is part of a performance. For Ahmad Jamal, each song was a performance. Over the course of a remarkable eight-decade career, Jamal, who passed away Sunday at the age ...

Ahmad Jamal was a jazz piano master whose feathery touch, lyrical elegance and pinpoint command of dynamics and the space between notes profoundly inspired Miles Davis and a host of other famous ...

The legacy of Ahmad Jamal and Pittsburgh’s jazz roots were celebrated on Wednesday at the Community Engagement Center in Homewood at the Journeys & Jazz event. Jamal, a Homewood native whose career as ...

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