RIP: documentary filmmaker Bruce Ricker

Bruce Ricker (that’s him on the left, with Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino)

Bruce Ricker — a Cambridge, Massachusetts -based director and producer of documentaries whose best-known film, “The Last of the Blue Devils’’ (1979), is a jazz classic — died of pneumonia Friday in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.

He was 68.

Mr. Ricker specialized in documentaries about jazz, popular music, and film history.

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