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Sad news, but what a long life he had!

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Finally, after a lifetime of wonderful music, the man himself gets to "take five." There would not have been "cool jazz" or complex time signatures in jazz without him. RIP.

I can't believe I never got to hear him live. Many opportunities but either no time or flat broke every time he came around. Time Out was the second 33 I ever bought with my own money in 1961. I wore it out. My little brother was is 7 years younger started playing the guitar in a garage band some years later. I heard him playing Blue Rondo one day and asked him where he learned it. He said he thought he had heard it somewhere but didn't know where. He didn't realize he went to sleep to it every night from age 6 to 9. He can probably still play it. Great music lasts.