DIED:

Monday February 23, 1998 12:00 AM EST

Joe Williams, whose smooth baritone and collaborations with Count Basie won him acclaim as one of the great voices of jazz, Monday, after walking away from a hospital (where he was being treated) and collapsing on a Las Vegas street near his home. He was 80.

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