AHMAD JAMAL
Legendary pianist and composer AHMAD JAMAL is one of the most sampled Jazz Music artists in Hip Hop and Popular Music. To date there have been over 274 samples and 53 covers of his performances and compositions.
Popular music artists who have sampled the music of AHMAD JAMAL include Anthony Hamilton, Anderson Paak, Common, De La Soul, Jay Z, Nas, Rick Ross. Full details of the samples and covers can be found on the website Who Sampled.
One of the architects of modern jazz, AHMAD JAMAL passed away on April 16, 2023. Our office continues to administer his music publishing.
Any party interested in obtaining permission to cover or sample his music, should contact our office.
Publishing company: Mayah Publishing Inc.
For additional information contact: Maurice Montoya/MM Music Agency
Phone: 212-2299160 | e-mail: [email protected]
Popular music artists who have sampled the music of AHMAD JAMAL include Anthony Hamilton, Anderson Paak, Common, De La Soul, Jay Z, Nas, Rick Ross. Full details of the samples and covers can be found on the website Who Sampled.
One of the architects of modern jazz, AHMAD JAMAL passed away on April 16, 2023. Our office continues to administer his music publishing.
Any party interested in obtaining permission to cover or sample his music, should contact our office.
Publishing company: Mayah Publishing Inc.
For additional information contact: Maurice Montoya/MM Music Agency
Phone: 212-2299160 | e-mail: [email protected]
The Critics Speak:
Ahmad Jamal: "The Essence, Part I (Verve). The rows of shocking diversions and riffs on this new album by a 1950's master could be mistaken for the work of a younger, experimental-minded pianist."
Ben Ratliff, "The Living Arts", The New York Times
"No musician has had a more profound effect on the orchestral approach to small groups in the last 35 years than Ahmad Jamal ... He showed people how to italicize and magnify elements of music that were taken for granted, how to organize the sound of a group around the drums and how to interchange the riff with the ostinato or the vamp ... He is a virtuoso, but his innovations are found in his arrangements......
Stanley Crouch, The Village Voice
"Ahmad Jamal is to me, the most exciting, creative keyboard artist living. John King, Melody Maker "Given [Miles] Davis great influence on other musicians, the cumulative effect has been incalculable; not only pianists with Miles, but everyone who has imitated them as well reflect the works of Jamal to some degree."
Jazz, The Rough Guide - Penguin
"Jamal's colorful harmonic perception has been too often overlooked. He characteristically builds parallel and contrary motion lines that move in and out of chordal substitutions and alterations that would probably frighten pianists of less harmonic sensitivity...In his use of pedal point ostinato interludes as a method by which to build and release energized musical tension, Jamal has brought the bass and drums into an independent but highly functional role in his conception of the piano trio. He has always been one of jazz's foremost exponents of good songs."
Don Heckman, LA. Times
"A soloist who defies practically every convention of the jazz pianist's art. This is a man uninterested in playing easy backbeats while his sidemen indulge in extended solos, a musician whose mercurial improvisational techniques require an unusually nimble set of fingers ... Startling chord clusters, outrageously elastic tempos, sharp dissonance between the hands, rhythmic ideas that ignore the meter of his sidemen--Jamal reveled in defying conventional approaches to the keyboard ... the pianist manages to bring coherence to improvisations that shift constantly between swing rhythm and meterless playing, between single-note riffs and extended parallel chords in both hands."
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
The Musicians Speak:
“All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.”
- Miles Davis
Ahmad Jamal: "The Essence, Part I (Verve). The rows of shocking diversions and riffs on this new album by a 1950's master could be mistaken for the work of a younger, experimental-minded pianist."
Ben Ratliff, "The Living Arts", The New York Times
"No musician has had a more profound effect on the orchestral approach to small groups in the last 35 years than Ahmad Jamal ... He showed people how to italicize and magnify elements of music that were taken for granted, how to organize the sound of a group around the drums and how to interchange the riff with the ostinato or the vamp ... He is a virtuoso, but his innovations are found in his arrangements......
Stanley Crouch, The Village Voice
"Ahmad Jamal is to me, the most exciting, creative keyboard artist living. John King, Melody Maker "Given [Miles] Davis great influence on other musicians, the cumulative effect has been incalculable; not only pianists with Miles, but everyone who has imitated them as well reflect the works of Jamal to some degree."
Jazz, The Rough Guide - Penguin
"Jamal's colorful harmonic perception has been too often overlooked. He characteristically builds parallel and contrary motion lines that move in and out of chordal substitutions and alterations that would probably frighten pianists of less harmonic sensitivity...In his use of pedal point ostinato interludes as a method by which to build and release energized musical tension, Jamal has brought the bass and drums into an independent but highly functional role in his conception of the piano trio. He has always been one of jazz's foremost exponents of good songs."
Don Heckman, LA. Times
"A soloist who defies practically every convention of the jazz pianist's art. This is a man uninterested in playing easy backbeats while his sidemen indulge in extended solos, a musician whose mercurial improvisational techniques require an unusually nimble set of fingers ... Startling chord clusters, outrageously elastic tempos, sharp dissonance between the hands, rhythmic ideas that ignore the meter of his sidemen--Jamal reveled in defying conventional approaches to the keyboard ... the pianist manages to bring coherence to improvisations that shift constantly between swing rhythm and meterless playing, between single-note riffs and extended parallel chords in both hands."
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
The Musicians Speak:
“All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.”
- Miles Davis
