# Ahmad Jamal has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755 "2023-04-16T22:49:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755/1 "2023-04-16T22:49:18Z")
Jazz great dead at 92. Pianist, composer and jazz legend for six decades. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755/2 "2023-09-10T20:10:47Z")
Whoa for a minute I thought you were saying Justice Jamal of the Supreme Court of Canada had died. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755/3 "2023-09-10T21:12:45Z")
Apparently nobody gave a shit either way. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755/4 "2023-09-11T03:36:11Z")
Weird. It came up in my feed of new articles. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755/5 "2023-09-11T05:18:15Z")
He was really good. At least he lived a long and productive life. For a number of years, I enjoyed listening to his album Ahmad’s Blues (recorded live in Chicago in 1958). I stopped playing it only because I lost track of it, along with a number of loose CDs. This would be a good time to sort through them all to find it. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755/6 "2023-09-11T12:26:41Z")
His stuff bordered on ‘cocktail jazz’ but evidently Miles Davis was a big fan, especially of the ‘spaces’ in his playing. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755/7 "2023-09-11T12:45:16Z")
I can see that. We saw him in concert once and I wasn’t crazy about his music, but he was solid. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahmad-jamal-has-died/982755/8 "2023-09-11T13:02:06Z")
“At The Pershing” is a jazz classic to me. I missed the news of his death. RIP.