32 h. ago Danielle Spencer dead: Legendary What's Happening child star dies aged 60

Danielle Spencer, a former child star most famous for her role in sitcom What's Happening!! has died at the age of 60 a former co-star has confirmed

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5 d. ago Jim Lovell: Legendary NASA astronaut who said 'Houston we have a problem' dead

Jim Lovell, the astronaut who brought the failed Apollo 13 lunar mission back to Earth in 1970 after an oxygen tank exploded, has died aged 97, NASA has confirmed

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5 d. ago Jim Lovell dead: Legendary NASA astronaut who nearly died during lunar landing passes away at 97

A legendary astronaut who commanded the almost doomed lunar mission has passed away at the age of 97.

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6 d. ago Explosive and experimental, Eddie Palmieri was a revolutionary figure in postwar American music

The Puerto Rican New Yorker pianist, who has died aged 88, radiated pure joy as he played – never resting on his laurels as he went from jazz to salsa to house and beyond• Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies aged 88Some 20 years ago I watched as Eddie Palmieri approached his piano, noting how his features radiated a mix of joy and excitement. As soon as he began to play I grasped why. To say the great Puerto Rican New Yorker was a thrilling performer is an understatement: seated at the piano he threw himself into playing explosive Latin jazz, his rhythmic attack reminding me how his first job as a professional musician was playing timbales in his uncle’s band aged 13. This sense of joy, the excitement he found in making music, the chances he took, helped shape Eddie Palmieri’s long, brilliant career.To my mind, Palmieri was one of the truly revolutionary figures of postwar American music, up there with Muddy and Miles and Aretha and Dolly: a musici...

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6 d. ago Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies aged 88

The pianist, composer and bandleader was the first Latino to win a Grammy and would win seven more over a career that spanned nearly 40 albumsEddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died aged 88.Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s daughter Gabriela told the New York Times her father died earlier that day at his home in New Jersey after “an extended illness”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Eddie Palmieri dead: Legendary rumba and Latin jazz artist passes away at 88

Eddie Palmieri, the first Latino to win a Grammy Award, died at his home in New Jersey after "an extended illness" following a career which spanned seven decades

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6 d. ago Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies at 88

Eddie Palmieri, the pioneering rumba and Latin jazz musician, has died at 88

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4 w. ago corto.alto: 'I sometimes find jazz alienating, and I'm a jazz musician'

The Scottish artist is one of a wave of artists bringing jazz to a new generation. Here, he chats Spotify, Gen Z and why he’d love to play with Stevie Wonder

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