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Donald Byrd, one of the leading jazz trumpeters of the 1950s and early 1960s, who became both successful and controversial in the 1970s by blending jazz, funk and rhythm and blues into a pop hybrid that defied categorization, died on Feb. 4 in Dover, Del. He was 80.
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Times]
How about: Jazz-Funk-Rhythm & Blues Hybrid?
Other things that have defied categorization [in the
Times, anyway]: W.G. Sebald, writer; the films of Robert Zemeckis; painters marking the Irish potato famine; Belgian beer; Jerry Brown; Americans, in general; the politics of Angela Merkel; folk-art objects you can't figure out.