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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.