Ahmad Jamal

Person · Open Library

Works

5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1930-07-02

Active to

2023-04-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

430,188

Total plays

5,174,606

Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 2 July 1930; died 16 April 2023) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator. For six decades, he was one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz.[2] He was a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master and won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy for his contributions to music history. While he invariably recorded as part of a trio or quintet, some releases were as Ahmad Jamal Trio and Ahmad

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,908x

2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,988x

3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,999x

4. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 10,253x

5. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

   · 2020 · cited 9,186x

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Quotes

• “When my people were brought over here from Asia and Africa, they were given various names, such as Jones and Smith. I haven't adopted a name. It's a part of my ancestral background and heritage: I have re-established my original name. I have gone back to my own vine and fig tree.”
• “[In response to a comment ("I sometime-get the feeling that Jamal would rather crawl into the piano than off the bench at the conclusion of a performance, so deeply involved is he in his music") by critic Philip Elwood] Maybe so. But I regret that I still don't have enough time to spend with my instrument. I think I could become more at one with it if I did.”
• “It was 25 cents here, $6 there. At $6, one gets to thinking it's a lot of money. So then economics started dictating the direction of my career, and that's when I started devoting more time to jazz. When I got up to $60 a week, which was as much as my father was making, I said, well, this is it. And I was doing that before I left high school.”
• “Miles, Thad Jones, Clark Terry, Gil Evans, myself—the reason we always stay young is because we've been part of three eras. We heard Lunceford, Hines, Basie at their peak--I was a sponge, I absorbed that era. Then it was the Gillespie-Parker era—we were still young, and again we sponged it up. Now we are living in the electronic age . . . and we're still listening.”
• “A guy that knows all these electronic things may be great [...] but a guy who knows acoustic and electronic is better. Just like a guy who knows Mozart only may be great, but a guy who knows Mozart and Duke Ellington is better. And a guy who knows Mozart and Brahms and Ellington is even better . . . It's musical depth perception.”
• “If you're applying for credit and write that you’re an insurance salesman, or a member of the Chicago Symphony, you won't have trouble. But just write "jazz musician" and you can't even buy a sofa on credit.”

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Key facts

Born

Frederick Russell Jones , ( 1930-07-02 ) July 2, 1930, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, U.S.

Died

April 16, 2023 (2023-04-16) (aged 92), Ashley Falls, Massachusetts , U.S.

Genres

Jazz hard bop modal jazz cool jazz post-bop

Occupation

Musician

Instrument

Piano

Years active

1948–2020

Labels

OKeh Parrot Epic Argo Atlantic Dreyfus Impulse! Telarc Jazzbook/ACM

Website

www .ahmadjamal .com

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