US jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal dies aged 92 after a career spanning more than seven decades.
abc.net.au/news/jazz-piano-legend-ahmad-jamal-dies/102233474US jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal has died aged 92 after an award-winning career spanning more than seven decades.He has been credited with luring a larger pop audience to enjoy jazzJamal's daughter Sumayah confirmed his death, telling The New York Times the cause was prostate cancer.
His commercial breakthrough came with the release of his album Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not for Me in 1958. It stayed on the Billboard magazine charts for more than 100 weeks which The New York Times said was one of the best-selling instrumental records of its time.Jamal was friends with music greats such as Miles Davis, and influenced his work and that of other musicians, including the pianist McCoy Tyner.
"He knocked me out with his concept of space, his lightness of touch, his understatement, and the way he phrased notes and chords and passages," Davis wrote of Jamal in his autobiography. In an interview late last year Jamal told The New York Times he was "still evolving, whenever I sit down at the piano".
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