The music world diminished: R.I.P. Chet Atkins, age 77, slick-fingered country and crossover guitarist and producer, inventor of the Nashville sound without which country music would probably never have made it to the pop charts. And lyrical jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson [right] is gone at 64. “You could hear roots coming out of Lester Young, Stan Getz. There was a wailing, a search in his playing. Within just a few notes you knew that it was Henderson.” New York Times