Ahmad Jamal Tickets

Ahmad Jamal is a name that gave a new height to Jazz Music by his excellent skills and critics believe he is the second most important person in Jazz music in last fifty year. Ahmad Jamal is a music composer, Jazz pianist and educator who have been working for music industry since more than 60 year.  Ahmad Jamal was born on 2 July 1930 in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. His birth name was Frederick Russell Jones that he later changed as Ahmad Jamal. He started playing piano when he was only three year old and in the age of 7 year he started learning piano in a very formal way.

His first formal piano teacher was Mary Cardwell Dawson who influenced him greatly and he believes all the good of his music talent is because of his first formal teacher only.Both the parents of Ahmad Jamal were Bapist and he also remained a dedicated Bapist till his twenties. In his twenties he found Islam and he changed himself completely by accepting Islam as his religion, after accepting Islam as his religion he changed his name also.  

Career of Ahmad Jamal is something that can fascinate any musician He started his career with a touring group and he achieved success in slow but very consistent way. In his initial days he did lot of work, he performed at many places but he received fame after 1954 only when he signed with oak records and recorded with his friends Ahmad Jamal is a trained musician in traditional Jazz or as well as in European classic style music also and he innovated new symphony in the world of Jazz that attracted entire world. May be this is the reason because of which he received so many prestigious awards and a reputation of one of the greatest Jazz pianist in last 50 year.