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Pharoah Sanders has joined the ancestors.

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Pharoah Sanders, Whose Saxophone Was a Force of Nature, Dies at 81

Pharoah Sanders, influential jazz saxophonist, dies at 81

Pharoah Sanders, giant of spirit-driven jazz, dies at 81

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Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders dead at 81

Quincy Jones, a titan of the music industry whose career spanned over 75 years, has died aged 91.

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His death was confirmed by his publicist Arnold Robinson who said Jones "passed away peacefully" in his Bel Air home on Sunday, surrounded by his family.

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"Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones' passing," the family said in a statement. "And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him."

Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones started learning piano aged seven. At 14, after his parents divorced and he moved with his father to Washington state, having started to play drums and a host of brass instruments, he joined a band with 16-year-old Ray Charles that played Seattle's bar scene — on one occasion, backing Billie Holiday.

In the 1950s, after studying music in Boston and moving to New York, he'd go on to tour Europe with jazz bandleader Lionel Hampton as well as the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, before starting to work with Frank Sinatra in 1958.

While the list of artists Jones would go on to work with is expansive, among his best known credits are producing Michael Jackson's Thriller album and overseeing recording of the 1985 charity single We Are The World. He earned 28 Grammy award wins from 80 nominations — third all-time behind Jay-Z and Beyoncé, each with 88 nominations.

Quincy Jones Dies Aged 91

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