Pete Candoli, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 84
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Pete Candoli was a jazz trumpeter who made his mark as a high-note specialist in the big-band era and went on to become one of the busiest studio musicians in Hollywood.
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Terry Melcher, a record producer and songwriter who aided the careers of Ry Cooder, the Byrds and the Beach Boys, has died, his publicist announced Saturday. He was 62.
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The drummer with the Doobie Brothers, Keith Knudsen, dies of pneumonia at the age of 56.
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For Guitarist Steve Cropper, the day the music died was not February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly died. It was an icy Dec 10, 1967, when the plane carrying a 26-year-old Otis Redding went down in a Wisconsin lake.
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DeWitt, NY - Fred Hale Sr., documented as the world&#39;s oldest man, died Friday. He was 113. Hale last month watched his lifelong favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, win the World Series again after 86 years.
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Joe Hunter, Motown's first bandleader and a three-time Grammy winner with the Funk Brothers, has died. He was 79.
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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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Jazz ukulele master Lyle Ritz recorded his first solo album in 1957 for Verve Records. Some 50 years later, at the age of 75, he discovers the Mac and GarageBand and records his latest.
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Fred Marsden, the drummer in the Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers, has died at age 66, his family said.
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BOSTONÃÂ -- Charlie Wagner, who pitched for the Boston Red Sox during the 1930s and '40s and worked for the organization for 70 years, died early Thursday of an apparent heart attack. He was 93.
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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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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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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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Artie Shaw, a clarinetist and bandleader who symbolized the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s, died today in California, the Associated Press reported, citing his manager Will Curtis.
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Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement &#151; often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee &#151; has died. He was 87.
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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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The colourful life of French mercenary Bob Denard, who died on 14 October at the age of 78.