Jazz breaking news: Trumpet legend Donald Byrd dies aged 80

Friday, February 8, 2013

It’s been reported that legendary trumpeter Donald Byrd, probably best known in the States for his late-1950s and early-1960s Blue Note groups with Pepper Adams and Duke Pearson as well as his later jazz-funk albums with brothers Larry and Alphonso Mizell, died on Monday aged 80.

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