The award-winning musician released more than 60 albums in his career, and his legacy continues today: His work has been sampled on dozens of rap songs.
Ahmad Jamal, whose measured, spare piano style was an inspiration to generations of jazz musicians, died Sunday at his home in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts. He was 92.In a career that would bring him a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master award, a lifetime achievement Grammy, and induction into France’s Order of Arts and Letters, Jamal made his mark with a stately approach that honored what he called the spaces in the music.
In his early years, Jamal listened not just to jazz, which he preferred to call “American classical music,” but to classical music of the non-American variety. But it soon became an integral part of the jazz landscape. Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett are among the prominent jazz pianists who looked to Jamal as an exemplar.
Jamal performs at the Marciac Jazz Festival in France in 2016. Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett are among the prominent jazz pianists who looked to Mr. Jamal as an exemplar. Jamal’s output was as prodigious as his light-fingered style was economical: He released as many as three albums a year in the late 1960s and early ’70s, and more than 60 in his career.
Five years of court action followed, during which Jamal was arrested and charged with nonpayment of child support for their daughter. He was hospitalized in 1963 after an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. Not until 1964 did he begin touring and recording again.
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