Larry Willis, acclaimed jazz pianist and three time Grammy Award nominee, dies

Posted by Sloe Walker on Oct 03, 2019 under News & Notes

Jazz pianist Larry Willis, a three time Grammy Award nominee passed away on Sunday, September 29, 2019 of an aneurysm in Baltimore, Maryland's Mercy Medical Center. During a long career he performed with such jazz stalwarts as Dizzy Gillespie, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Nat Adderley, Stan Getz and Art Blakey. In a 2007 interview published in the Baltimore Sun Willis said, "music is my oxygen. It's why I live." He is also remembered for his five-year stint with the pop/rock group, Blood, Sweat & Tears beginning in 1972, laying down some of rock's most intense, innovative electric keyboard solos. Larry Willis, dead at 76.

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