Jazz legend Giuseppi Logan died of the coronavirus at a Far Rockaway nursing home, according to a report. He was 84. Logan, who became an icon in New York’s free jazz movement in the 1960s, died at the Lawrence Care Center, his friend Matt Lavelle told jazz radio station WBGO.
The multi-instrumentalist taught himself how to play alto and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, piano and Pakistani oboe and collaborated through the Swinging Sixties with other avant-garde musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and Bill Dixon.
But Logan, who suffered from addiction and mental health issues, disappeared from the music scene in the 1970s. He alternated between homelessness in New York and being institutionalized in Virginia, The New
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