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David Redfern/Redferns via Getty Images Jazz great Yusef Lateef, pictured performing at France’s Jazz A Vienne festival in July, died Monday. He was 93. SHUTESBURY, Mass. — Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, has died. He was 93. Lateef died Monday at his home in Shutesbury in western Massachusetts, ...

Don Hunstein/AP Musician Miles Davis is shown during recording session in 1959 for ‘Kind of Blue.’ The block that was the longtime home to a jazz legend was finall renamed in his honor on Wednesday. Officials renamed a stretch of W. 77th St. “Miles Davis Way” Wednesday, resolving a lengthy battle for the jazz impresario’s neighbor, Shirley Zafirau, who fought ...

Douglas Mason/Getty Images Jazz guitarist, pictured performing during the Newport Jazz Festival 2013 in August, died Tuesday in his sleep. Jim Hall, one of the leading jazz guitarists of the modern era, whose subtle technique, lyrical sound and introspective approach strongly influenced younger proteges such as Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell, died early Tuesday at age 83, his wife said. ...

David Redfern/Redferns Jazz drummer Chico Hamilton died Monday at his New York City home. Foreststorn “Chico” Hamilton, an influential jazz drummer and bandleader who was an architect of the West Coast cool jazz style and was known for discovering young talent, has died. He was 92. His publicist, April Thibeault, said Hamilton died Monday night of natural causes at his ...

The Sachal Jazz Ensemble’s members all came from the once-great “Lollywood” movie system in Lahore, Pakistan. The camera opens on a pair of bongos, a man in red setting a double-time pace. Then it cuts to a full orchestra, string players all in white, laying down a familiar, undulating accompaniment. And finally, the melody comes in — on a sitar. ...