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Sax player Charles Neville gains ‘spot in the heavenly band’
Original Publication Date: April 27, 2018 1:52AM
Publication Updated: April 23, 2025 1:16PM
NEW ORLEANS – As music fans gather for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, they’re also mourning the death of one of the city’s famed musicians.
Charles Neville, one of four siblings from New Orleans who made up the Grammy-winning Neville Brothers band, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer. He was 79.
His older brother, Art, said in a statement released early Friday that Charles’ death leaves a “big o’ hole in our entire family and our hearts.”
Neville’s career dated to the 1950s when he performed with B.B. King and other musical greats.
But he was best known for decades of performing with his brothers Aaron, Art and Cyril as The Neville Brothers band which featured a distinctive fusion of funk, jazz and New Orleans rhythm and blues.
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