(CNN) -- Marian McPartland, the famed jazz pianist and longtime host of NPR's "Piano Jazz" program, died Tuesday, her label confirmed. McPartland was 95 and died of natural causes at her Port Washington, New York, home, Concord Music Group said in a statement. McPartland had a career that spanned more than seven decades in music, first as a piano player in music halls in her native Great Britain during World War II and then in the jazz clubs of the United States. She's pictured in the classic 1958 Art Kane photograph of jazz musicians that became the basis of the documentary "A Great Day in Harlem."
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Marian McPartland, host of "Piano Jazz," dead at 95
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McPartland was an eloquent teacher and gracious host
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Jazz pianist had a career stretching back to the World War II era
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