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Arthur Blythe at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1984 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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Arthur Blythe
Died on March 27, 2017 at age 76
Mr. Blythe’s brawny alto saxophone sound and independent spirit made him a standard-bearer of the New York jazz avant-garde in the late 1970s.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.