Breaking: Popular US Jazz Pianist Ahmad Jamal is Dead

By Sola Omoniyi, Lagos

Ahmad Jamal, a popular United States jazz pianist has given up the ghost on Sunday after he battled with prostate cancer.

Jamal, who’s a legendary pianist, died at the age of 92 in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts.

The sad incident was confirmed by his daughter, Sumayah, who revealed this on Monday, April 17.

I Love Music by Jamal, who was popularly known in the year 1994 and sampled by a classic rap song by Nas.

Jamal received a lifetime achievement Grammy award in 2017 for his contribution to music history, his Kennedy Center names him a “Living Jazz Legend”.

After four years, he began his profession under his mentor, opera director Mary Cardwell Dawson.

Jamal was involved deeply in the music of many jazz greats, including Earl Hines and Erroll Garner.

As he’s popularly called “Jazz great,” he however, detested the moniker “Jazz” and later came up with the phrase “American classical music” to characterise his preferred genre.