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Donald Byrd

This March 12, 1990 file photo shows Jazz educator and musician Donald Byrd in New York. Trumpeter, composer and educator Donald Byrd has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, file)

Innovative jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd dies at 80

Katie Zezima and Randall Chase, Associated Press
DOVER, Delaware (AP) — Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950's, died Feb. 4 in Delaware, according to Haley Funeral Directors in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich., which is handling arrangements...
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