Michael Zerang has accompanied dance and theater for decades—including an upcoming puppet staging of Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness.

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Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the jazz notables who died this year, including Sheila Jordan, Andy Bey, Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Chuck Mangione, Eddie Palmieri and Jim McNeely. This is FRESH AIR ...

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This is FRESH AIR. Today, our jazz historian, Kevin Whitehead, looks back at seven jazz notables who died this year. He earlier paid tribute to band leader Jack DeJohnette and to my late husband, the ...