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August 19th, 2008
Posted: 10:42 PM ET
(CNN) — LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday from complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an ATV accident, the band’s publicist said. Moore, 47, “died unexpectedly” at a hospital, publicist Ambrosia Healy said in a statement. Moore was taken to Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles and had been rehabilitating at his L.A. home after the June 30 accident at his farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia. The Dave Matthews Band was formed in Charlottesville in 1991 by Matthews, drummer Carter Beauford and Moore, an established saxophonist in the local music scene. Their first album, “Remember Two Things,” was released in 1993 and featured what would become the band’s trademark mixture of jazz, rock and world-music stylings. The band’s follow-up record, “Under the Table and Dreaming,” has been certified quadruple-platinum, selling over 4 million copies. |
 
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