Local Jazz Musician Great Dies

Teddy Washington Performed With James Brown, B.B. King and Frank Sinatra

POSTED: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

UPDATED: 3:31 pm EDT July 29, 2009

Teddy Washington

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jacksonville-born jazz great Teddy Washington, who was featured at the 2008 Jacksonville Jazz Fest, died Tuesday night.

Washington performed with the likes of James Brown, B.B. King and Frank Sinatra -- just to name a few.

In 1999, he performed at the reopening of the Ritz Theatre.

Just seven years later, he was inducted into the Jacksonville Jazz Festival Hall of Fame.

Channel 4 was told Washington died at Shands, apparently from complications caused by a blood clot.

Washington was 80.

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