This is FRESH AIR. Pianist Ahmad Jamal died on April 16 at age 92. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, broke through with his small-group music in Chicago in the 1950s and recorded scores of records ...
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 ...
Jamal's 1958 album "At The Pershing: But Not For Me" stayed on the charts for 108 weeks. In 2014, he told NPR he kind of saw it coming. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) AHMAD JAMAL: I just knew ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Jazz great and Pittsburgh native Ahmad Jamal has passed away. Jamal died in Massachusetts following a battle with prostate cancer. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1930 and started ...
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 ...
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 ...