Legendary jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal has died, his wife, Laura Hess-Hey, confirmed via The Washington Post. No cause of death was given. He was 92 years old. Jamal was a jazz innovator ...

Percolating with ideas, the tunes on this release are intimate, enthralling, and and laced throughout with rich blue tones... —Bob Osborne, World of Jazz / All About Jazz “Imagine the peaks we could ...

When someone talks about “West Coast jazz" or “cool jazz," they're almost invariably referring to a style performed by jazz musicians in California (and primarily in Los Angeles) in the '50s and early ...