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They also asked that donations be made to the Jazz Foundation of America in lieu of flowers.

Recently he seemed to suggest that the Jazz Age gangster Al Capone was still alive.

The multi-talented musician and producer rose to success after graduating from Berklee College of Music, in Boston, and becoming a trumpet player in bands for the jazz titans Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie in the '50s.

The Jazz then bought out Westbrook, which allowed him to sign with the Nuggets over the summer.

He was blind in one eye and deaf in one ear from injuries suffered in the bombardment of Budapest in World War II. But at 85, the jazz drummer still had a couple of gigs to look forward to each week, and that was all he needed.