U.S. saxophonist Lou Donaldson, one of jazz music's last remaining links to the era of bebop in the 1950s who went on to develop a soul and Latin-inspired sound in the following decades, has died at 98.

Lou Donaldson's career spanned over half a century, and several of his recordings were sampled in some of the most impactful rap, hip-hop and pop records in history.

Two of the jazz world’s most enduring pioneers, Lou Donaldson and Roy Haynes, died within days of each other, following […]