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The duo Brewer & Shipley reached the Top 10 in 1971 with ''One Toke Over the Line,'' a ditty about marijuana that ran afoul of Nixon-era censors. Michael Brewer, half [...]

She was celebrated for both her playing and her love of the jazz community. ''My life in music,'' she said recently, ''is the smartest thing I've done.'' Claire Daly, who [...]

Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer who played with some of the biggest names in jazz and was a founder of one of the leading groups of the hard [...]

A musician and audio engineer, he helped define the sound of alternative rock while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry. Steve Albini, a rock musician and revered studio [...]

A musical voyager who wouldn't be limited by genre, style or even instrument, he brought exuberance to the Robert Glasper Experiment and other groups. Casey Benjamin, who brought colorfully expansive [...]

His recordings of Beethoven and Chopin were hailed as classics, but his technical ability sometimes invited controversy. Maurizio Pollini, an Italian pianist of formidable intellectual powers whose unrivaled technique and [...]

She led a successful career despite coping with a horrific event that she witnessed at 18: the killing of her mother and sister at the hands of her father. This [...]

She was on the band's first two albums, but she was dismissed in 1995. She died in a car crash in Texas on Friday. Laura Lynch, a founding member of [...]

He made his name in the 1980s with the Waitresses and the Psychedelic Furs, but his roots were in the exploratory jazz of Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman. Weakened by [...]

She fused her mathematical knowledge with minimalist sounds and global spiritual traditions, most notably in her 1976 composition ''The Electric Harpsichord.'' Catherine Christer Hennix, a Swedish experimental musician and artist [...]

A vibraphonist, pianist, educator and musical thinker, he co-founded the Creative Music Studio to bring musicians together to foster improvisation. Karl Berger, a musician, composer, educator and author who taught [...]

He first attracted attention with the band Television, a fixture of the New York punk rock scene. But his music wasn't so easily categorized. Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was [...]

His Scottish band became known for hard-driving stadium rock, but its biggest hit was a cover of a country ballad about heartbreak. Dan McCafferty, who as the frontman of the [...]

He taught himself to play the oud, a lutelike stringed instrument, and made a splash on social media with his cover versions of pop songs. Ahmed Alshaiba, who as a [...]

His life revolved around his massive hoard of fragile 78 r.p.m. disks of jazz, blues, country and gospel music recorded between the 1920s and '50s. Joe Bussard, who made it [...]

''Being a concertmaster is terribly demanding,'' she once said, ''but women can handle the job as well as men can. I know that.'' Jorja Fleezanis, a dynamic violinist and dedicated [...]

As an artist and exponent of American traditional songs, he sought to blur the lines between outsider and insider art. ATLANTA -- Art Rosenbaum, a painter and folk musician acclaimed [...]

A force in the world of choral music, he was considered one of the most important English church musicians of his generation. Simon Preston, an organist, conductor and composer who [...]

An itinerant musician, he leaked secret files to F.B.I. investigators looking at the bank's ties to money laundering, the Trump Organization and Russia. Val Broeksmit, a wayward whistle-blower who wielded [...]

She played many instruments and appeared on radio and television, but she was best known for the skill that led to a role in Woody Allen's''Broadway Danny Rose.'' As the [...]

In a prolific career spanning five decades, he helped pave the way for ambient, techno and trance music. Klaus Schulze, a German electronic musician whose hypnotic, pulsating, swirling compositions filled [...]

He was trained in the classics and jazz, but he helped popularize a new, danceable genre known as timba. José Luis Cortés, a Cuban musician who with his popular band, [...]

His ''In the Still of the Night'' (originally ''Nite''), recorded with his group the Five Satins, came to define a sort of dreamy 1950s nostalgia. Fred Parris, who was a [...]

In the 1940s, he joined with his three brothers and his sister, Rose, to make exuberant music that anticipated rockabilly and rock 'n' roll. Don Maddox, the last surviving member [...]

The Chieftains, the band he fronted for nearly 60 years, toured the world, collaborated with rock stars and helped spark a musical renaissance. Paddy Moloney, the playful but disciplined frontman [...]

Cabaret Voltaire, of which he was a founder, began as a band of experimental provocateurs and later moved to the dance floor. Richard H. Kirk, a founding member of the [...]

''Yes Sir, I Can Boogie,'' which she and a fellow ballet dancer recorded under the name Baccara, became one of the disco anthems of the 1970s. MADRID -- María Mendiola, [...]

A tuba player and the leader of the Hot 8, one of New Orleans's high-profile brass bands, he brought music to his fellow citizens in the difficult days after the [...]

He was known as the ''Gentleman of Son'' because of his infectious enthusiasm for repopularizing the genre considered the bedrock of the Cuban sound. Adalberto Âlvarez, one of Cuba's most [...]

He was born into a family of Jewish musicians, but he made his mark in Latin music, as a pianist, bandleader and producer. Born into a family of musicians, Larry [...]

The musician, who died on Friday, was a true originator of the genre. An outsider, he lived a Latin music life by immersing himself in Afro-Caribbean culture. In many ways, [...]

He released his own experiments with sound under the name Pita, and also ran the influential label Editions Mego. It was 1997, and Peter Rehberg and two collaborators had booked [...]

Blending modern technology with traditional instruments, Mr. Hassell created a genre he described as ''coffee-colored classical music of the future.'' Jon Hassell, a composer and trumpeter who blended modern technology [...]

Part of a famous duet with his brother, he brought traditional ragas to generations of young musicians. He died of Covid 19-related complications. This obituary is part of a series [...]

When jazz and rock fused in the 1970s, he was at the forefront of the movement. But he never abandoned his love of the acoustic piano. Chick Corea, an architect [...]

She quit her legal career to play music full time, performing more than 4,000 shows over 30 years in union halls and punk bars and on picket lines. This obituary [...]

A skilled multi-instrumentalist, he co-founded the New York Arabic Orchestra and directed Lebanon's national conservatory of music. He died of complications of Covid-19. This obituary is part of a series [...]

Driven from China during Mao's rule, he kept up a correspondence with his father that became a beloved book in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. Fou Ts'ong, a Chinese-born [...]

When she joined the Boston Pops in 1955, she was believed to be the first woman to play tuba in a major American orchestra. A lot of people had one [...]

A virtuoso of the mbira, a plucked instrument, he shared his knowledge with the wider world to preserve wisdom handed down orally. He died of Covid-19. This obituary is part [...]

A deft musician and beloved mentor, he helped keep steel-pan music -- his bridge to the Caribbean -- a vibrant part of New York life. He had the coronavirus. This [...]

He was adept at a range of instruments, particularly the congas and timbales, and he could make himself at home in almost any ensemble. Ray Mantilla, a percussionist and bandleader [...]

The musician, who died of the coronavirus, had an early rock career in Japan before helping write the song that became Joan Jett's breakthrough hit. This obituary is part of [...]

His melodic banjo work on a 1973 hit single (heard in the movie ''Deliverance'') helped usher bluegrass music into the cultural mainstream. Eric Weissberg, a gifted multi-instrumentalist whose melodic banjo [...]

His up-tempo hits and high-wattage performances were highlighted by spectacular dance moves. He contracted the coronavirus and died in Paris. Aurlus Mabele, the Congolese singer who was called ''the king [...]

A prominent figure on the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, he wrote songs performed by Bette Midler, Carly Simon and the Muppets. Buzzy Linhart, a whimsically eccentric singer-songwriter [...]

Descended from two eminent musical families, he became a maverick, questioned the establishment and fostered a career on his own terms. Peter Serkin, a pianist admired for his insightful interpretations, [...]

He worked with the Monty Python troupe and was known for his own projects, including the Beatles parody band the Rutles. Neil Innes, the British humorist and musician who was [...]

Mr. Simon, light of touch yet breathtakingly pyrotechnic, was known for his interpretations of the Romantic literature. Abbey Simon, an American pianist celebrated for a style that harked back to [...]

Marya Columbia was awakened by her husband just before 9 a.m. on that indelible September morning 18 years ago. He had been startled by a clangorous noise that he later [...]