US jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal has died after battling prostate cancer. He was 92. Throughout his seven-decade career, Jamal was at the cutting edge of jazz, and was cited as an influence by Miles Davis and Vijay Iyer. He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2017. Raised in a Christian Baptist family, Jamal discovered Islam as a teenager while touring Detroit, which had a significant Muslim community in the mid-20th century. He converted to Islam in 1950, changing his name. | The

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