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Jazzman dead in home trunk

The noted jazz musician dad of Hollywood “Blade” actress N’Bushe Wright was found dead yesterday, stuffed in a steamer trunk in the basement of his family’s Brooklyn home, police and relatives said.

The grisly discovery of the body of bassist and pianist Stanley Wright, 62, also known as Suleiman-Marim Wright, was made after his son, Khalil, 36, called cops after going to the Brownsville home at 3:30 a.m. and finding the door open.

A police search turned up Wright’s body. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Shocked relatives said the trunk was a family heirloom and where his children kept their favorite possessions.

Family members said Wright — a widower who once taught music in a Brooklyn public school — was last seen Friday moving his car. Tylique Wright, 29, said his distraught cousin N’Bushe was in California when she received the devastating news and was flying home.

“She is very close to her dad. She loved her father. She always came home for holidays,” he said.

A niece, Adrienne Wright, 50, said she passed by the house on Saturday to ask her uncle to pose for a family photo.

“I knew something was wrong. I saw the door open, something told me to go inside. The house was messy and he would never live like that. I thought maybe he was away for a couple of days,” she said.

Wright played several gigs at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He performed at the Williamsburg Music Center until diabetes forced him to stop.

But mostly he was known as a beloved music teacher who taught piano to neighborhood kids for as little as $10 a lesson — often for free.

“He was a loving, caring person. His whole life he was a giver,” said Tylique. “In the summertime he would buy the whole block ice cream. He would give piano lessons to kids on the block.”