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Famous Indy Trumpeter Passes

Last updated on Tuesday, December 30, 2008

(SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA) - A famous jazz trumpeter from Indianapolis has died.

Freddie Hubbard -- who represented the next step in modern trumpet playing after Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis -- died from complications of a heart attack Monday in Sherman Oaks, California.

Hubbard was 70.

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