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In the latest of our series where musicians consider idols or formative influences, Nick Tomalin writes about his favourite tracks by pianist Ahmad Jamal, who died on 16th April 2023 aged 92.  "Testament to Ahmad’s genius." At the Pershing. Nick Tomalin writes: I was lucky enough to see Ahmad Jamal perform with his trio at…

Some saw Jamal as a genius of musical drama, others of melodrama, a supper-club pianist purveying nearly definitive musical bombast

His group became the house band for Pershing Hotel in Chicago, and one night in January 1958 they recorded more than 40 songs.

Ahmad Jamal, the pianist and composer died on April 16 at his home in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts. He was 92.

Ahmad Jamal entered jazz at a time when speed and heated improvisation was still central to the art. He changed all that.

Acclaimed pianist, composer and bandleader Ahmad Jamal has been a headliner since the early ’50s, when he relocated from his native Pittsburgh to Chicago. That’s how he began one of

The pianist and composer’s ideas had a decisive effect on the history of an art form.

His taut and rhythmically supple approach to jazz piano – notably his best-selling recording of 'Poinciana' – influenced generations of other musicians who embraced his less-is-more dynamics.

Ahmad Jamal, the Pittsburgh-born jazz pianist known for introducing the world to a softer side of bebop, has passed away.

"No single artist after the great alto saxophonist [Charlie Parker] has been more important to the development of fresh form in jazz than Ahmad Jamal," wrote music critic Stanley Crouch.