The online New York TImes  this morning —

Paco de Lucia, Renowned Flamenco Guitarist, Dies at 66

By REUTERS FEB. 26, 2014, 8:30 A.M. E.S.T.

MADRID — Paco de Lucia, the influential Spanish guitarist who vastly expanded the international audience for flamenco and merged it with other musical styles, died suddenly on Wednesday** of a heart attack in Mexico.

The 66-year-old virtuoso, as happy playing seemingly impossible syncopated flamenco rhythms as he was improvising jazz or classical guitar, helped to legitimize flamenco in Spain itself at a time when it was shunned by the mainstream.

Related material linked to here at midnight Monday-Tuesday —

Djelem Djelem.

Unrelated material, suggested merely by the upload dates of 
two guitar videos* — See Oct. 25, 2008, and Oct. 26, 2011. 

* El Toro – Malagueña (guitarist: Canabarro) and Light and Shade 
  (guitarist: de Lucia).

** Update of 12:26 PM ET — Other reports now say de Lucia died
not today, Wednesday, Feb. 26, but rather on Tuesday, Feb. 25.