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Dub Administrator I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember. Posts: 19,900	R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal Apr 16, 2023 19:36:28 GMT -5 t-bob and TKennedy like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2023 19:36:28 GMT -5 Ahmad Jamal dies at 92 according to the Washington Post. Complications from cancer.
	“Life isn't waiting about for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.” - Saskia Fraser “I think [life is] more like a bar crawl, where you stumble and swerve from stop to stop. And then end up face down in some random ditch at the end.” - Rick Waugh

jdd2 Ancient citizen Posts: 13,201	R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal Apr 16, 2023 20:17:50 GMT -5 Dub likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jdd2 on Apr 16, 2023 20:17:50 GMT -5
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Dub Administrator I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember. Posts: 19,900	R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal Apr 16, 2023 21:55:28 GMT -5 TKennedy likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2023 21:55:28 GMT -5 “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.” – Miles Davis
	“Life isn't waiting about for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.” - Saskia Fraser “I think [life is] more like a bar crawl, where you stumble and swerve from stop to stop. And then end up face down in some random ditch at the end.” - Rick Waugh

Dub Administrator I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember. Posts: 19,900	R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal Apr 16, 2023 23:25:35 GMT -5 TKennedy likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dub on Apr 16, 2023 23:25:35 GMT -5 From the New York Times. The critic Stanley Crouch wrote that bebop’s founding father, Charlie Parker, was the only musician “more important to the development of fresh form in jazz than Ahmad Jamal.”
	“Life isn't waiting about for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.” - Saskia Fraser “I think [life is] more like a bar crawl, where you stumble and swerve from stop to stop. And then end up face down in some random ditch at the end.” - Rick Waugh

Dub Administrator I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember. Posts: 19,900	R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal Apr 17, 2023 0:05:10 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dub on Apr 17, 2023 0:05:10 GMT -5
	“Life isn't waiting about for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.” - Saskia Fraser “I think [life is] more like a bar crawl, where you stumble and swerve from stop to stop. And then end up face down in some random ditch at the end.” - Rick Waugh

howard lee Moderator Flâneur The Blue Moon Rambler Posts: 5,812	R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal Apr 17, 2023 6:24:06 GMT -5 Tamarack likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by howard lee on Apr 17, 2023 6:24:06 GMT -5 I have to say that, in show business, 92 years is a pretty darned good run.
	"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." — Mark Twain

drlj Ancient citizen KD-21A Posts: 23,091	R.I.P. Ahmad Jamal Apr 17, 2023 7:36:27 GMT -5 howard lee likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by drlj on Apr 17, 2023 7:36:27 GMT -5 92 is a pretty good run in any business. R.I.P.
	You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar. –Stephen King