2023-04-17 05:11:34
American jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal has passed away this Sunday at his home in Ashley Falls, in the state of Massachusetts, at the age of 92 due to prostate cancer.
Over the course of eight decades of his professional career, Jamal, who began his formal piano studies at the age of 7, has won several awards including highlights the Grammy for his trajectory.
the jazz composer Miles Davids, a trumpeter and conductor, stated how the pianist influenced him by declaring: “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal”collects the newspaper ‘The New York Times’.
Jamal was born Frederick Russell Jones in Pittsburgh in July 1930. At the age of three he began playing the piano, and four years later he began his formal studies. By joining the musicians’ union at the age of 14, the pianist Art Tatum praised him as having “a great future”.
In the early and mid 1950s, he conducted various trios and quartets until settled into a trio with bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournierwho released ‘At The Pershing: But Not For Me’, which is one of the most popular and influential recordings in jazz history.
Posteriorly, in the late sixties, he recorded ‘The Awakening’, which was widely acclaimed for its originality by jazz standards.
He has also composed music for soundtracks of various films and He has founded several record labels. He released up to three albums a year in the late 1960s and early 1970s, recording over 60 in her career.
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