She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing.

Wearing his signature fedora, he won wide popularity and 14 Grammy nominations, winning twice, and scaled Billboard’s adult contemporary charts in the 1970s and ’80s.

A player of impeccable technique and a mainstay of the Blue Note label, he recorded constantly as both a leader and a sideman beginning in…

He wrote prolifically about the music and played an important role in documenting its history, especially in his many years with the Institute of Jazz…

A pianist, composer and arranger, he rose to fame with the group Brasil ’66 and remained a force in popular music for more than six…