Just in: Grammy-winning jazz composer dies

Just in: Grammy-winning jazz composer dies

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norman lebrecht

December 19, 2011

Ralph MacDonald started out drumming for Harry Belafonte. In all, he made 400 albums.

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His most celebrated composition was Roberta Flack’s Where is the love?

MacDonald was 67 when he died yesterday in Stamford, Conn.

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