R.I.P. Nadi Qamar (1917-2020)

[Alex Potts]

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenbaypressgazette/obituary.aspx?n=nadi-qamar-spaulding-givens&pid=197006566&fhid=14357

very interesting and under-appreciated musician and man

[soulpope]

R.I.P ....

[clifford_thornton]

Interesting figure indeed; would be interested in getting his Folkways solo LP someday. 103 is quite a run.

[Justin V]

I'll have to listen to his work with Mingus and Andrew Hill again soon.   Thank you for the music, Mr. Qamar, and rest in peace.

[JSngry]

RIP. Thanks for being there and doing that.

[sidewinder]

RIP - an incredibly long life.

[mhatta]

Probably like many, I only know his music via Andrew Hill's Compulsion! or some piano recordings with Charles Mingus & Max Roach.  Stunning colleagues indeed...

[Niko]

Thanks for posting this! Played Compulsion yesterday, and then this Allen Eager LP which has one side live in a Quintet with Howard McGhee and Qamar on piano from 1953

[chitownjazz]

Nadi Qamar played a gig at Southend Musicworks in Chicago in 1990. To the extent i remember it, I think he mostly played piano and kalimba. Quite a feat for the venue to have tracked him down in those pre-WWW days. I assume he probably drove down from Wisconsin. I've always wondered what happened to him - amazing that he lived such a long, productive life.

[mikeweil]

What a life! And proof that a great musician much too often is not widely known or on a lot of records. I always enjoyed his playing and especially his love for African instruments. Like here: