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Dave Frishberg, a Grammy-nominated jazz songwriter, singer and pianist who wrote the Schoolhouse Rock song “I’m Just a Bill,” died Wednesday, according to a post on his Facebook page. He was 88. His wife April Magnusson said he had been battling an illness for several years. Frishberg had a long and varied career that…

Chick Corea, an American jazz pioneer, composer, keyboardist and bandleader, died Tuesday, according to a post on his Facebook page. He was 79. The Facebook statement says Corea died from “a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently.” Corea was the fourth-most-nominated artist in the history of the…