Farewell to Donald Byrd, one of the most supremely gifted trumpeters of the Twentieth Century and leading exponent of jazz rock fusion. Donald was also a gifted educator and band leader, and more recently was sampled on more than 100 hip hop tracks: Nas sampled the musician on his 1994 hit NY State of Mind, while A Tribe Called Quest sampled his work on 1990's Footprints. He has died aged 80.
Troubled country singer Mindy McCready has died in an apparent suicide in Arkansas. She leaves behind two sons, Zander aged 6, and Zayne aged just ten months. Her long term boyfriend and father of one of her sons, record producer David Wilson, died last month.
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