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Caroline Brew editor Carla Bley, an influential jazz composer and pianist, died in her home in Willow, N.Y. due to complications from brain cancer. She was 87.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt is remarkable how few people know that the same person produced Bob Dylan’s three defining early albums (as well as “Like a Rolling Stone”), the first two Velvet Underground albums, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s debut “Freak Out” and pivotal music by jazz legends Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor (including tracks with John Coltrane), among many others.It was Tom Wilson, a visionary music producer who died in 1978 at the age of 47.He was even the man who in

We're saddened to announce that #EddieGale, the pioneering Brooklyn-born trumpeter, has passed away aged 78.

Secrets of the Sun and late '70s recordings Lanquidity, The Other Side of the Sun, and On Jupiter.Gale left an “incredible legacy” at Blue Note, reads a statement from the venerated label, including Larry Young’s Of Love And Peace, and Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures, on which he played alongside free jazz standouts Jimmy Lyons (alto saxophone), Henry Grimes (bass), and Andrew Cyrille (drums).As a bandleader, he cut the “visionary” late ‘60s albums Ghetto Music and Black Rhythm Happening for Blue

Henry Grimes, the multi-instrumentalist whose career in jazz music spanned more than 60 years, has died of complications related to the coronavirus. He was 84.