Legendary jazz band leader Artie Shaw dead at 94
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Artie Shaw, the legendary jazz band leader who enthralled audiences with his clarinet during the swing era, has died at the age of 94, the BBC reported.
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Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the scores for such movies as &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Thoroughly Modern Millie&quot; during a wide-ranging 50-year career, has died near Los Angeles according to news reports.
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The debonair jazz pianist and composer of such legendary Broadway tunes as "Witchcraft," "Big Spender," and "The Best is Yet to Come," died on Thursday night.
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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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Jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed for classic recordings of "Begin the Beguine" and "Oh, Lady Be Good" as well as turbulent marriages to movie stars Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will Curtis said.
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Musician Jimmy Smith, who pioneered the organ as a jazz instrument, dies at the age of 79 at his home in Arizona.
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The late jazz artist Miles Davis is inducted onto Hollywood's RockWalk.
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World-renowned bassist Aladar Pege, who moved with ease from jazz to classics and lifted his bulky instrument to star status, has died, the Hungarian cultural ministry said Sunday. He was 67.
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&amp;B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 83, his spokesman said.
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Artie Shaw, the clarinetist and bandleader whose renditions of &quot;Frenesi,&quot; &quot;Begin the Beguine&quot; and &quot;Star Dust&quot; helped define America&#39;s swing era, died yesterday in Los Angeles after a long illness.
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Artie Shaw, the clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at his home. He was 94.
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A jury has awarded the ex-wife of the late jazz clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw $1.42 million, which accounts for about half of his estate.
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&amp;B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said. He was 83.
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Artie Shaw, clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era, died at his home Thursday, orchestra manager Will Curtis said. He was 94. Shaw had been ill for some time, Curtis said, but he didn't know the specific cause of death.
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Jazz star George Melly has died at his home in London at the age of 80, his wife Diana said Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Elmer Bernstein, whose  eclectic film music ranged from the rousing theme of "The  Magnificent Seven" to the lighthearted score for "Thoroughly  Modern Millie," for which he won an Oscar, died Wednesday at  his home in Ojai, Calif. He was 82.
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Friends and colleagues pay tributes to jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson, who has died aged 82.