Our Deepest Sympathies

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Over the weekend, DownBeat learned that one of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn., was Ana Marquez-Greene, the daughter of jazz saxophonist Jimmy Greene.

Ana was 6 years old.

Words can’t express the horror all of us at DownBeat felt as the news of this horrible event unfolded. And words can’t express our sorrow knowing that a member of the jazz family has suffered such an unexplainable loss.

Our hearts, our thoughts and our prayers go out to Jimmy and his family.

Frank Alkyer
Publisher
DownBeat magazine



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