Jazz breaking news: Free jazz giant Ronald Shannon Jackson dies aged 73

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Drummer, composer and bandleader Ronald Shannon Jackson, one of the leading avant-garde jazz and free funk players, died of leukemia on 19 October at his home in Fort Worth, Texas aged 73.

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