Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, at the age of 69, according to the state-run National News Agency. The ...

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Mangione died in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York, on Tuesday; he was 84. Born to a pair of Italian-American jazz enthusiasts in Rochester on November 29, 1940, Charles Frank Mangione ...

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Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, at the age of 69, according to the state-run National News Agency.The death was confirmed ...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer best known for giving the Mission: Impossible series its dramatic theme tune, has died. He was 93. The Buenos Aires-born musician was a prolific soundtrack composer ...

After returning to Buenos Aires, Schifrin started his own jazz band to perform at concerts and on TV. He eventually met American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who invited him to work for him in ...

Schifrin, also a jazz pianist and classical conductor, had a remarkable career in music that included working with Dizzy Gillespie and recording with Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan.

Lalo Schifrin, the composer of “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died peacefully in his sleep.

Mr. Kleinsinger offered idiosyncratic lineups, combining musicians of different ages, genders, races, nationalities and levels of fame; a famous trumpet player like Dizzy Gillespie might play ...

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