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Ahmad Jamal

April 2023

  • FILES-US-MUSIC-JAZZ-JAMAL-OBIT<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 04, 2016 US jazz pianist and composer, Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones) performs during a concert in the Marciac Jazz Festival in Marciac. - Ahmad Jamal, a towering and influential jazz pianist, composer and band leader in a career spanning more than seven decades, has died at age 92, news reports said Sunday. Jamal's widow Laura Hess-Hey confirmed his death but did not give details, The Washington Post reported. Music news outlets in France and Britain also reported his death. (Photo by Rémy GABALDA / AFP) (Photo by REMY GABALDA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ahmad Jamal obituary

  • Ahmad Jamal in 2013

    Ahmad Jamal, influential jazz pianist, dies aged 92

December 2015

  • Electronic music producer Arca

    Music blog
    The best albums of 2015 – so far

    Collating the best albums released in 2015, updated monthly

July 2015

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  • jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal.

    Ahmad Jamal: Live in Marciac 2014 review – warm, charming live album

September 2014

  • Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef: Live at the Olympia review – Paris goes wild

    Ahmad Jamal is joined by the late Yusef Lateef for a formidably inventive live set, writes Dave Gelly

August 2014

  • Ahmad Jamal

    Ahmad Jamal/Yusef Lateef: Live at the Olympia review – spirited and funky

    While Jamal's methods may be familiar, the influence of Lateef brings a distinct and welcome edge to this set, writes John Fordham

January 2014

  • Ahmad Jamal

    Ahmad Jamal – review

  • Ahmad Jamal at the North Sea Jazz festival 2011

    Take 5: John Fordham's month in jazz
    Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – January

October 2013

  • Ahmad Jamal: Saturday Morning – review

    Now 83, jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal is as brilliantly unpredictable as ever, writes Dave Gelly

September 2013

  • Ahmad Jamal

    Ahmad Jamal: Saturday Morning – review

    The octogenarian American pianist's followup to last year's Blue Moon is just as fresh, writes John Fordham

February 2013

  • Ahmad Jamal – review

  • Ahmad Jamal at the North Sea Jazz festival 2011

    Ahmad Jamal: 'After a time you discover the Mozart in you'

December 2012

  • Nobel Peace Prize Concert - Oslo

    2013 arts preview
    2013 jazz and world preview: don't miss Fanfare Ciocarlia's frantic dance party and new jazz weekender Love Supreme

    Or catch AnDa Union's traditional Mongolian songs and Miles Davis favourite Ahmad Jamal tickle the ivories

February 2012

July 2005

  • Ahmad Jamal, After Fajr

    (Dreyfus)

May 2005

  • Ahmad Jamal

    Barbican, London

June 2003

  • Ahmad Jamal: In Search Of

    (Dreyfus)

April 2002

  • Ahmad Jamal

    Barbican

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