He's been entertaining audiences for over sixty years.

Here at 82 in 2012 playing to a knowledgeable French audience, a tune he made his own, first recorded by him in 1958. It's what they came to hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAkEuDZT1-M

More classic jazz, Doghouse!

My dad was an Ahmad Jamal fan. He also liked Monk, Miles, Stan Getz, and many more from the defining era of modern jazz. I never really got into Jamal but love a lot of music from that time and am always on the lookout for jazz I haven't heard before.

The genre is pretty timeless.

Here's a couple of Miles Davis tunes.
This has been used to introduce countless magazine, or current affairs programmes around the world for the last fifty or so years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pvmfbOEjKY


Similarly this always gets "rediscovered" for use in nature documentaries., etc.,. has done over the last fifty years too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgmEY41baKM


Both sound as fresh today as when they were recorded.