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Stanley Crouch, a passionate cultural critic and champion of jazz music, died September 16,NPR reported.
He was 74 and spent the last years struggling with his health, contracting COVID-19 in spring 2020.
In 2013, he published a biography of saxophonist Charlie Parker,Kansas City Lightning.
Over the course of his career, Crouch became close friends with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
