Jazz guitarist Jim Hall, who mentored Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell, dies at age 83

... Frisell, died early Tuesday at age 83, his wife said. Hall died in his sleep after a short illness at his Greenwich Village apartment in Manhattan, said Jane Hall, his wife of 48 years who described her husband as "truly beloved by everybody who ...

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