He was known for his laid-back style and for his influence on, among others, Miles Davis, who once said, “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.”
Category: Jazz
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Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History
Terence Blanchard’s jazz-inflected work tells the real-life story of the boxer Emile Griffith, haunted by guilt when an opponent died after a fight.
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Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM
Through Saint Heron, the musician brought Angélla Christie and the Clark Sisters for a night exploring Black religious music, and Linda Sharrock and Archie Shepp for a show that felt anything but safe.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams
We asked a dozen musicians, scholars and critics to help take us on a tour of the music and mind of a pianist whose decades-long career made her a Mount Rushmore figure in jazz.
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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Nun With a Musical Gift, Dies at 99
Born in Ethiopia, she seemed headed for a career as a concert pianist before she chose a monastic life. Her intricate piano recordings gained a cult following.
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Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Bettye LaVette, Abra, Tyler, the Creator and others.
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53 Years After Miles Davis’s Album, a Fresh Spin as ‘London Brew’
A 12-member collective of noted U.K.-based musicians used “Bitches Brew” as a springboard, improvising a new LP after the pandemic thwarted a 50th anniversary celebration for the original.
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Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs
Hear tracks from Meshell Ndegeocello, the Japanese House, Hannah Jadagu and others.
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For Jean-Yves Thibaudet, a Detour From Classical Is Business as Usual
Jean-Yves Thibaudet is playing Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphonie” this week. But before, he debuted a night of jazz standards with Michael Feinstein.
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Next Jazz at Lincoln Center Season Will Celebrate Wayne Shorter
As part of the performing arts center’s 2023-24 concert season, the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will honor Shorter, the innovative saxophonist who died this month.
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Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’
The saxophonist, who died on Thursday at 89, redefined jazz composition by embracing the unknown. Listen to nine of his recordings with Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Esperanza Spalding and more.
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Wayne Shorter, Innovator During an Era of Change in Jazz, Dies at 89
His career as an influential tenor saxophonist and composer reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz’s complex evolution during that span.