Richard Cook, Journalist and Author of Books on Jazz, Dies at 50
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Mr. Cook was a veteran British music journalist and the author of several acclaimed books on jazz.
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Author, broadcaster and newspaper columnist Miles Kington has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
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Ellis L. Marsalis Sr., the patriarch of a family of world famous jazz musicians, including grandson Wynton Marsalis, has died. He was 96.
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Legendary author Sidney Sheldon has died from pneumonia, his publicist told AFP, after a prolific career that saw him pen Oscar-winning screenplays and sell over 300 million books. He was 89.
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One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.
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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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Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet,  an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who  helped found the New Novel school in the 1950s, died on Monday  aged 85, his publishers said.
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Richard Avedon, one of the most  influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th  century, died on Friday at age 81 in Texas, where he had been  photographing an essay on democracy for the New Yorker  magazine, a magazine spokeswoman said.
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US photographer Richard  Avedon, renowned for his  portraits of the rich and famous, dies aged 81.
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Maxwell McCrohon, who arrived in the United States as an aspiring foreign correspondent and went on to lead the Chicago Tribune and United Press International, has died. He was 76.
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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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British journalist and former gossip columnist Nigel Dempster dies at the age of 65.
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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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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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James L. Ogle Sr., who wrote two books with Roger Maris during a reporting career that spanned five decades, died at 93.
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Jazz legend Joe Zawinul, who soared to fame as one of the creators of jazz fusion and performed and recorded with Miles Davis, died early Tuesday, a hospital official said. He was 75.
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Living in a city without a full-time jazz station, I have to rely on CDs and downloads to hear my fill of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. But to discover new jazz from singer Madeleine Peyroux or pianist Bruce Barth, it's necessary to reach past broadcast radio to online music services, music blogs...