Jazz keyboard legend dies at 75
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Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz fusion with his band Weather Report, died in his native city of Vienna on Tuesday, aged 75.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
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Oscar Peterson, whose speedy fingers, propulsive swing and melodic inventiveness made him one of the world's best known and influential jazz pianists, has died. He was 82.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion who was once dubbed the "Mozart of Chess", has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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Flamboyant jazz singer and author George Melly dies at his London home at the age of 80.
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George Melly, a flamboyant, gravel-voiced jazz singer, critic and raconteur, died Thursday, his wife said. He was 80 years old.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, has died, a friend of the artist said on Monday. He was 82.
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Boots Randolph, a saxophone player best known for the 1963 hit "Yakety Sax," died Tuesday. He was 80.
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Austrian-born jazz legend Oscar Klein, who fled when the Nazis took power and recorded with Lionel Hampton and other greats during a career that spanned four decades, has died at the age of 76, local media reported Wednesday.
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One of the world's greatest singers, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, dies aged 71 after a battle with cancer.
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American jazz singer Anita O'Day, a star of the Big Band era, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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George Melly, the larger-than-life jazz star, has died at his home in London at the age of 80, his wife said Thursday.
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The singer turns 75 on September 28.
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One of the most famous American band leaders of the swing era, clarinettist Artie Shaw, dies aged 94.
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Jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson dies aged 82, according to Canadian media reports.
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Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones and Nancy  Wilson were among a star-studded group of performers who  gathered on Saturday for a musical farewell to jazz piano great  Oscar Peterson.