Miles Davis once said, "All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal," which is high praise indeed from the legendary trumpeter. Anyone even remotely familiar with Davis knows that he did not hand out ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Ahmad Jamal, the legendary and inventive pianist, passed away on Sunday at age 92. He was a virtuoso as an instrumentalist and composer, producing songs that lent themselves to genres well beyond jazz ...

Ahmad Jamal, a prodigious pianist, composer and bandleader whose seemingly effortless mastery resulted in part from a childhood dare, has died at age 92. Jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal died Sunday at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pianist, 92, has been hesitant to glance back: “I’m still evolving, whenever I sit down at the piano.” By Giovanni Russonello The first time Ahmad Jamal put out a live recording with his trio, it ...

Jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal died Sunday at the age of 92. Jamal helped define American jazz during his eight decades of performances. Even Miles Davis took cues from him early on in his career. Karen ...