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Jazz trumpeter Kenny Ball dies

 

Robert de
Thursday 07 March 2013 11:53 EST
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Jazz trumpeter Kenny Ball died in hospital this morning where he was being treated for pneumonia, his manager said.

Les Squires said the musician, who was in his early 80s, died in Basildon Hospital in Essex at 7.30am.

He said: "He had been in and out of hospital recently but sadly this time he did not come out, but he was playing to the end."

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