Ahmad Jamal has been playing piano for most of his 84 years. He's been named an American Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts and released more than five dozen albums as a leader; his ...

Ahmad improvises on it all, and you can’t miss their synergy: it’s everywhere on this album. Ahmad loves it all, he relishes it. The improvisation on the their version of Bronislaw Kaper’s great song ...

Ahmad Jamal passed at his home in Ashley Falls, MA at the age of 92. Born Frederick Russell Jones in Pittsburgh on July 2, 1930, Jamal began playing piano as a teenager and moved to Chicago following ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — At the Afro-American Music Institute in the Homewood South neighborhood, the legacy of jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal can still be felt and seen. Dr. James T. Johnson Jr. and his wife, ...

The German audiophile label Speakers Corner had just reissued, on LP–in glorious mono too–a classic album, The Piano Scene of Ahmad Jamal. This LP was originally issued by Epic Records in 1959. There ...

Ahmad Jamal's been making music for over fifty years, yet somehow he's still saddled with a tag as one of Miles Davis' favorite pianists. It's long since time critics put that reference to rest and ...

When asked what he's thinking about when he's at the piano, NEA Jazz Master and Kennedy Center Jazz Legend Ahmad Jamal replies, "Those songs that come up on my recordings or my concerts, sometimes I ...

Ahmad Jamal, whose music was sampled by Nas, Jay-Z, De La Soul and many other Hip-Hop artists, died at the age of 92. The influential pianist, who was born Frederick Russell Jones, died of ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Ahmad Jamal, the legendary and inventive pianist, passed away on Sunday ...

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 ...

Today jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal celebrates his 82nd birthday, presumably near Montauban, France, where he will play a gig tomorrow. In fact, he'll spend most of the month in France, The Netherlands, ...

Nas’ “The World Is Yours” is considered one of rap’s greatest hits. An Ahmad Jamal sample is a crucial piece of why that is. What sets the tone for “The World Is Yours,” the second to last single Nas ...