The Resume

(July 2, 1930-April 16, 2023)
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Birth name was Frederick Russell Jones
Jazz pianist
'Cool jazz' pioneer
Recorded the albums 'The Ahmad Jamal Trio' (1955), 'At the Pershing: But Not For Me' (1958), 'Jamal at the Penthouse' (1959), 'Happy Moods' (1960), 'All of You' (1961), 'Macanudo' (1962), 'Extensions' (1965), 'The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful' (1968), 'Outertimeinnerspace' (1971), 'Jamal Plays Jamal' (1974), 'Intervals' (1980), 'Crystal' (1987), 'I Remember Duke, Hoagy and Strayhorn' (1994), 'In Search of Momentum' (2003), and 'Ballades' (2019)

Why he might be annoying:

'Down Beat' magazine dismissed his most successful album, 'At the Pershing,' as 'cocktail music.'
After closing his nightclub Alhambra and divorcing his first wife, Maryam, he stopped performing for three years (1961-64).
He was hospitalized after overdosing on sleeping pills (1963).
He tried to sue critic Leonard Feather for mentioning his birth name in an article (1996).

Why he might not be annoying:

Art Tatum hailed him as 'a coming great' when he was fourteen.
Miles Davis said, 'All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.'
Stanley Crouch wrote that he was second in importance only to Charlie Parker in the development of jazz after WWII.
He was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts (1994).

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 92]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [July] (Ranked: 7021930)
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (Ranked: 2017)
• I Converted to Islam
• I Died in 2023 (Ranked: 92)
• I Have Prostate Cancer
• I Married in 1982
• I Married My Manager
• Jazz Artists
• Look at Me, I'm a Man in Shades
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• Look at Me, Yes You! - Finger Pointers
• My Music was Lost in the 2008 Universal Studios Fire
• Newspaper Delivery Boys
• Profiles 57251-57500 (Ranked: 57448)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 93 Votes: 40.86% Annoying