Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahmad Jamal, the legendary and inventive pianist, passed away on Sunday at age 92. He was a virtuoso as an instrumentalist and ...

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 ...

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 released a flurry of albums between 1958 and 1970, many of them recorded on location. These 20-plus records do nothing to tarnish Jamal and his ensembles’ reputation as among the most ...

Frederick Russell Jones was born on July 2, 1930, to a working-class family in Pittsburgh. His friends called him Fritz. As a boy, he delivered newspapers to Billy Strayhorn's family. He converted to ...

At a time when Miles Davis was singing Ahmad Jamal’s praises to anyone who would listen, hailing the pianist as an influence on his own thinking as a bandleader, the opposing view was best expressed ...

The legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamalis one of my musical heroes. He ranks up there with iconic jazz musicians such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis, as well as Errol Garner and Lennie Tristano.

Muhammad Jamal Abd-Al Rahim Ahmad Al-Kashif was listed on 21 October 2013 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 of resolution 2083 (2012) as being associated with Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing ...

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 ...

With a style both sophisticated and sanctified, Ahmad Jamal is known for an artful use of space in his music, which goes hand in hand with his dramatic sense of tension and release. He stands as an ...

Ahmad Jamal, a pianist, composer and arranger whose innovative, chamber jazz style had a powerful impact on his contemporaries while gaining widespread popularity via such recordings as his ...

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 ...