Editor’s note: This moving tribute to Ahmad Jamal, by pianist and Atlanta, Georgia native Joe Alterman, was written after Jamal’s death in 2023 and has been edited and condensed below. Click to read ...

Jamal’s career appeared to be in dire need of a reset, and the 1985 Festival International de Jazz de Montreal provided him with just such an opportunity. Though he was well-versed in the musical ...

Ahmad Jamal (1930 -2023) began his recording career in 1951, laying down the tracks to the 1959-released album The Piano Scene of Ahmad Jamal (Epic Records). It was a trio affair, with Jamal at the ...

The legacy of Ahmad Jamal and Pittsburgh’s jazz roots were celebrated on Wednesday at the Community Engagement Center in Homewood at the Journeys & Jazz event. Jamal, a Homewood native whose career as ...

A newly discovered live album from the late Pittsburgh-born jazz pianist/composer Ahmad Jamal will come out Saturday for Record Store Day. The album, “At the Jazz Showcase: Live in Chicago,” is a ...

Critic Stanley Crouch cites AHMAD JAMAL’s impact on the fresh form in jazz as an outstanding conceptionalist. Crouch consider’s Mr. Jamal’s distinctive style as having had an influence on the same ...