Miles Davis
American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)
Photo: William P. Gottlieb, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
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Two-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master Cassandra Wilson has died at age 70 at her home in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Sonny Rollins, the relentlessly innovative tenor saxophonist whose solitary practice on the Williamsburg Bridge became the stuff of jazz legend, has died at his home in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 95.
