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  Chick Corea death: Renowned jazz pianist dies aged 79 after cancer diagnosis

  Renowned jazz pianist Chick Corea has died at the age of 79 after being diagnosed with cancer, a statement on his website said. American composer Corea, winner of 23 Grammy Awards, died from a rare form of the disease which he was only recently found to have, according to the announcement. “He was a beloved husband, father and grandfather, and a great mentor and friend to so many,” the statement said.

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  Chick Corea, jazz icon and winner of 23 Grammy Awards, dies aged 79

  Renowned jazz pianist Chick Corea has died at the age of 79 after being diagnosed with cancer, a statement on his website said. American composer Corea, winner of 23 Grammy Awards, died from a rare form of the disease which he was only recently found to have, according to the announcement. "He was a beloved husband, father and grandfather, and a great mentor and friend to so many," the statement said. "Through his body of work and the decades he spent touring the world, he touched and inspired t

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  Jazz pianist Chick Corea dies aged 79 after being diagnosed with cancer

  Corea is known for arrangements including Spain, 500 Miles High and La Fiesta.

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  Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker: The tragic saxophone genius with a voracious appetite for drugs, hard liquor and jazz

  Charlie “Bird” Parker was one of the wonders of 20th-century music. During his troubled 34 years on earth, he changed the course of jazz history. Yet nothing is simple about the life of this drug-ravaged, volatile genius; even the inspiration for the saxophone maestro’s famous nickname is shrouded in folklore.The origin stories about his nickname Yardbird (usually shortened to Bird) include that it derived from a cousin mispronouncing his name as “Yarlie”, and that it was conferred by a musician

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  Les Tomkins obituary

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  Jimmy Heath obituary

  Jimmy Heath obituaryJazz saxophonist, composer and brilliant arranger nicknamed Little Bird who enjoyed a seven-decade career

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  Clora Bryant obituary

  American jazz trumpeter and vocalist who performed with Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie. Although highly rated by her male peers, including Dizzy Gillespie, the Los Angeles based jazz trumpeter and vocalist Clora Bryant, who has died aged 92, recorded only twice. Her sole “name” album, Gal With a Horn, was issued in 1957, while a second recording made in 1982 merely featured her as an accompanist to the blues singer Linda Hopkins. Reflecting on why greater recognition seemed to have been deni

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  North Sea Jazz Festival 2019 line-up: Chance the Rapper, Janelle Monáe and Kamasi Washington announced as headliners

  The North Sea Jazz Festival has revealed the first wave of acts set to perform at its 2019 edition.

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  Roy Hargrove: Award-winning trumpeter once dubbed the hottest jazz player in the world

  Roy Hargrove was a Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter who seamlessly shifted from one style of music to another. Hargrove emerged as a fully formed talent in his teens, gaining an early boost from his fellow trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and appeared on bandstands with bebop pioneer Gillespie while still in high school in Texas. Only 20 when he released his first album, Hargrove was heralded as the leading light of the “Young Lions” movement, a new generation of musicians deeply schooled in the traditi

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  The BBC Proms 2017: How to still get tickets for sold out concerts

  Since it’s the world’s biggest classical music festival, there’s more going on than you can shake a conductor’s stick at - and, inevitably, many of the tickets have already been snapped up. Concerts that sold out when booking first opened include the first night of the Proms this Friday (July 14), Daniel Barenboim conducting Sibelius and Elgar (Prom 2, July 15), a celebration of film composer John Williams (Prom 8, July 20), John WIlson conducting Holst’s The Planets (Prom 14, July 25) and a tr

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