Claude Williamson, a prolific West Coast jazz pianist who was deeply influenced by the bebop piano of Bud Powell and was the last surviving member of the Lighthouse All-Stars, died July 16. He was 89.
His son, Marc, said last night that his father never fully recovered from a bad fall in February 2015 and had been in hospice care for about a year.
William…
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