Grammy-winning jazz producer Joel Dorn dies at 65
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Veteran record producer Joel Dorn,  who worked with such artists as Roberta Flack, Max Roach and  the Neville Brothers, died of a heart attack on Monday in New  York. He was 65.
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LOS ANGELES: Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who penned scores for blockbusters ranging from To Kill a Mockingbird and The Magnificent Seven to Ghostbusters has died at the age of 82.
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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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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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Influential rock bands The Doors  and the Grateful Dead will receive lifetime achievement Grammy  Awards next year, along with jazz saxophone player Ornette  Coleman and the late opera singer Maria Callas, organizers said  on Tuesday.
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French film and television composer Michel Colombier, who was a co-author of the score for Prince's film "Purple Rain" and who collaborated with a galaxy of French stars including Charles Aznavour and Serge Gainsbourg, has died at age 65, his family said on Wednesday.
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Playbill - Cy Coleman, the Tony Award-winning Broadway composer who rose from child classical pianist to jazz player to master of the catchy show tune, died Nov. 18 of a heart attack, according to friends and colleagues in the theatre community.
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Brazilian music producer Tom Capone, who was nominated for five Latin Grammy awards this year, was killed in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles early today (Sept.
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Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as "The Ten Commandments," "The Magnificent Seven," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Great Escape" and "True Grit," died Wednesday. He was 82.
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Alicia Keys and Usher received eight Grammy nominations each on Monday and Ray Charles, who died in June, received seven.
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The well-known Irish singer and entertainer Joe Dolan, who was in his late 60s, dies in hospital in Dublin.
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Alicia Keys and Usher received 8 Grammy nominations each today and Ray Charles, who died in June, received 7.
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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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Oscar Peterson, whose early talent, speedy fingers and musical genius made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, has died. He was 82.
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Joe Zawinul, the jazz keyboardist who soared to fame as one of the creators of jazz-rock fusion with the band Weather Report, has died, a hospital official said. He was 75.
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Ahmet Ertegun, a Turkish diplomat's  son whose passion for America's black music inspired him to  launch Atlantic Records and the careers of acts ranging from  Ray Charles to Aretha Franklin, died in New York on Thursday,  the record label said. He was 83.
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LOS ANGELES  - Jimmy Griffin, an  Academy Award-winning songwriter and former guitarist for the  1970s pop group Bread, died Tuesday in Nashville of  complications from cancer. He was 61.