WICN Artist of the Month, July 2023: Ahmad Jamal – 90 5 WICN Public Radio wicn.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wicn.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For decades, Chicago s Blackstone Hotel, 636 S. Michigan Ave., has meant history to me: jazz history. But the history at this 1910 gem of a hotel - part of Marriott s Autograph Collection - runs much deeper than that.
Ahmad Jamal, whose measured, spare piano style was an inspiration to generations of jazz musicians, died Sunday at his home in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts. He was 92.