South Africa’s Jazz Icon, Likened To Mozart By Mandela, Dies At 91 In Germany
The man Nelson Mandela once described as South Africa’s own Mozart has died. Abdullah Ibrahim, the pianist whose music became…
Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins Passes Away At 95
Legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, whose improvisational style and genre-defining recordings reshaped modern jazz for more than six decades, has…
Jazz Legend, Roy Ayers, Who Influenced Hip-Hop And R&B Dies At 84
Roy Ayers, a vibraphonist who in the 1970s helped pioneer a new, funkier strain of jazz, becoming a touchstone for…