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Actor Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter’s Hagrid, Dies at 72

Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series “Cracker” and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. He was 72. Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright said he died Friday at a hospital in his native…

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Robbie Coltrane obituary

Comedian turned critically acclaimed actor, from Cracker’s sarcastic, cerebral Fitz to the half-giant Hagrid in Harry Potter

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Robbie Coltrane's acting career from Hagrid in Harry Potter to Tutti Frutti

Coltrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours.

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From Cracker to Hagrid, larger-than-life Robbie Coltrane dominated the screen

The actor was known for his roles in TV series Cracker and as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films.

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Robbie Coltrane, star of Cracker and Harry Potter, dies aged 72

Scottish actor who graduated from the alternative comedy scene to become a major performer known for taking on complex and difficult roles

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Pharoah Sanders obituary

US saxophonist who started his career with Sun Ra and John Coltrane and went on to find a more spiritual voice

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House of the rising Son

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964…

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A church with open doors: the ecstatic power of Pharoah Sanders

The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

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Pharoah Sanders, legendary jazz musician, dies at 81

LOS ANGELES — Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.

Los Angeles Times

Pharoah Sanders, groundbreaking jazz saxophonist, dies at 81

The jazz great died in Los Angeles early Saturday, his record label announced.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pharoah Sanders, influential jazz saxophonist, dies at 81

Pharoah Sanders, a tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world and known for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced

The Independent UK

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

Sanders, revered as one of the avant-garde's greatest tenor saxophonists, was a member of John Coltrane's final quartet. His expressive playing laid a path for generations of musicians.

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Pharoah Sanders, cosmic jazz saxophonist, dead at 81

New York (AFP) - Pharoah Sanders, one of the most wildly inventive figures in jazz who wrestled his saxophone to its limits and felt equally at home in Indian and African music, died Saturday.He was 81.

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Creed Taylor obituary

Grammy-winning record producer who took jazz in adventurous new directions

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Jazz impresario Creed Taylor was one of the last of a dying breed of ‘record men’

Armed with just a passion for jazz, Taylor became a producer and the owner of the world’s most successful jazz label, working with everyone from John Coltrane to Nina Simone

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Barbara Thompson obituary

Formidably talented saxophonist at the heart of many jazz line-ups who blazed a trail for female instrumentalists

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‘I was consumed with anger’: Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron’s brilliant, badly wronged partner

He wrote the music for Scott-Heron’s astonishing streams of social consciousness – and then his royalties got cut off. The jazz-funk artist explains why he focused on a comeback instead of lawsuits

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‘I want to blow minds’: Kurt Vile on beating anxiety, hitting arenas and hungering for hits

The one-time carefree Philly stoner has come out of lockdown a changed man – with huge ambitions for his most candid record yet. He reveals how Covid triggered his ‘homecoming’ renaissance

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AFP

After Covid blues, French saxophone maker hits the right note

Mantes-la-Ville (France) (AFP) - After the financial blues of the Covid pandemic, the French saxophone maker favoured by American jazz greats celebrates its 100th birthday looking to expand further in Asia and the United States.

Los Angeles Times

Denzel Washington tackles Shakespeare and life's fourth quarter with grace

LOS ANGELES — Denzel Washington and I have been talking for a good, long stretch on a recent late Friday afternoon, discussing life's fourth quarter, the September of our years, when, pretty much out of nowhere, he starts singing Neil Young's "Southern Man."

The Independent UK

Pushing beyond the confines of jazz: Revisiting Ornette Coleman

In the Sixties, the saxophonist carried out a paradigm shift in jazz. A new album collection tries to trace that change, writes Andy Beta

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‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60

It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practise on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91, Rollins recalls those long cold days – and how he has coped after losing the power to play

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