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An impromptu jam of "Compared to What" gave McCann a career-defining moment at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival.
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This year, Jazz Night celebrates the lives of the artists we lost with a djembe tribute by Weedie Braimah.
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A lifelong Philadelphian, tenor saxophonist Larry McKenna was the definition of a local legend. He died on Nov. 19 at 86.
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A saxophonist and educator who mentored generations of young Philadelphia jazz musicians, Tony Williams died on Nov. 11. He was 92.
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Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension.
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President JoAnne A. Epps, who died on Sept. 19, served Temple University in various capacities for nearly 40 years.
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A master bassist whose influence was felt throughout modern jazz and classical music as well as rock, folk and pop, Richard Davis died on Sept. 6, at 93.
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In his horn, subway cars rumbled, buses hissed, traffic screeched and sirens howled. Homeless for more than a decade, Gayle was forever in conversation with the streets of New York.
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Equally at home with boppish fluency or a gutbucket blare, Curtis Fowlkes was a trombone virtuoso who collaborated far and wide, co-founding The Jazz Passengers. He died on Aug. 31, at 73.
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Andrade was a consummate nightclub artist who sang torridly of love in a husky voice. A fixture in her home country since the '60s, she became a sensation in the U.S. in the 1990s.