The coronavirus has just stolen one of the greats. Jazz legend Giuseppi Logan lost his battle with the coronavirus at a Far Rockaway nursing home this past weekend.
He was 84. Matt Lavelle, a trumpeter and clarinetist who was Logan’s closest musical partner over the last dozen years, shared the news with WBGO jazz radio station.
Logan was a centerpiece of New York’s free jazz movement in the 1960s and collaborated through the Swinging Sixties with other popular icons, including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and Bill Dixon.
Not only could he play the saxophone, but the multi-instrumentalist also taught himself how to play bass clarinet, flute, piano and Pakistani oboe.
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