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Byline: Harrison Smith Chris Jasper, who helped shape the sound of 1970s funk and soul music as a keyboardist, songwriter and producer for the Isley Brothers, working on Top 40 [...]

MARIA TIPO, who has died aged 93, was an Italian pianist revered for her brilliant articulation, immaculate precision and admirable control of the instrument; she was among the first European [...]

LOU DONALDSON, who has died aged 98, was an alto saxophonist whose fluid, soulful style helped to shape the face of modern jazz; a protege of the king of bebop, [...]

Byline: Richard Williams His high forehead and long, bushy beard, suggestive of a country preacher or a backwoods boffin, offered an early sign that Garth Hudson, who has died aged [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting According to the biographical film Inside the Osmonds (2001), the Osmond family mottoes were: 'It doesn't matter who's out front, as long as it's an Osmond' and [...]

Byline: Ximena Conde Dec. 24Dave Petersen, 29, a local musician who captured the attention of Philadelphians with his quasi-guerrilla marketing campaign to find a kidney donor, died in his sleep [...]

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 [...]

G YORGY PAUK, who has died aged 88, was a Hungarian-born violinist who defected to the West and made his name in Britain as a musician of rare talent and […]

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 [...]

Byline: Derek Schofield Francis McPeake, who has died aged 82, was a third-generation Irish uilleann piper in the Belfast-based McPeake family, attracting attention not only from the Irish traditional music [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting It is significant that Phil Lesh, who has died aged 84, claimed that one of his earliest memories was of being stunned by hearing Brahms's Symphony No [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose expressive bass lines helped shape the band's trippy 'space' jams and who contributed to hits such as [...]

Byline: Adrian Horton Phil Lesh, the influential bassist of the Grateful Dead who powered many of the jam band's touring incarnations after the 1995 death of Jerry Garcia, has died. [...]

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 [...]

HERBIE FLOWERS, who has died aged 86, was one of the unsung heroes of the music world; a session musician by temperament as much as profession, he played bass, electric […]

Byline: Felipe Maia Bringing Brazilian music to the world and the world to Brazilian music: for decades, this was Sérgio Mendes's mission and passion. The artist died on Frida y [...]

JOHN CLEGG, the actor, who has died aged 90, won a legion of fans in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum as the balding, bespectacled Royal Artillery concert […]

IAN KEATLEY, who has died suddenly on holiday in Austria aged 42, was the organist and director of music at Southwark Cathedral, responsible not only for music at the daily […]

Byline: Brian Murphy Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with [...]

NORMAN CAROL, who has died aged 95, was an American orchestral violinist who led the Philadelphia Orchestra when they accompanied President Nixon's 1973 visit to China; their repertoire in Beijing […]

Byline: Nadeem Badshah Paul Spencer, the dance music producer known as Dario G, has died at the age of 53. The musician was diagnosed with stage four rectal cancer in [...]

Byline: Geoff Edgers On Wednesday night, two days before Jeremy Tepper died, he went to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland to celebrate the psychobilly prankster Mojo [...]

D AVID SANBORN, who has died aged 78, was an alto saxophonist whose blend of jazz, pop and R&B brought the likes of David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and […]

STEVE ALBINI, who has died of a heart attack aged 61, was a musician and record producer - he preferred the term 'recording engineer' - who was probably best known […]

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 [...]

CHAN ROMERO, who has died aged 82, was a musician best known for his 1959 hit Hippy Hippy Shake, which was covered, among others, by the Swinging Blue Jeans, who […]

Richard Tandy, the keyboardist of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), has died aged 76. Jeff Lynne, ELO's co-founder, announced the news and paid tribute to a 'remarkable musician'. Lynne wrote on […]

Byline: Sian Cain Richard Tandy, the keyboardist in Electric Light Orchestra who shaped much of the British rock band's sound, has died aged 76. His death was announced by the [...]

An Algerian, he combined the music of his Sephardic roots with Arab traditions, incorporating boogie-woogie and other influences to create a singular style. Maurice El Medioni, an Algerian-born pianist who [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CHRIS CROSS, who has died aged 71, was the bassist with Ultravox; he also co-wrote their songs - including Vienna, a worldwide hit in 1981 that was famously kept off […]

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 [...]

Byline: Barry Millington The Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, who has died aged 82, was one of the giants of the keyboard in the second half of the 20th century, 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 [...]

FRANK FARIAN, who has died aged 82, was a music producer who sold more than 800 million records; he was the brains behind Boney M, whom he guided to pop […]

Byline: Safi Bugel Aston 'Family Man' Barrett, bassist for Bob Marley and the Wailers, has died aged 77. The news was confirmed on Saturday by Olivia Grange, Jamaica's Minister for [...]

Byline: Alexis Petridis Wayne Kramer used to tell a remarkable story about the first time he realised how influential his music had become. It was 1976, and he read an [...]

Byline: Ben Beaumont-Thomas Juan Mendez, the techno musician and member of the Sandwell District collective known for productions under the name Silent Servant, has died. His UK press representative confirmed [...]

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 [...]

Milan Kundera would often repeat to me that life is 'a conspiracy of coincidences'. In his case, fate had seen him born on 1 April, and he was convinced that [...]

I first crossed paths with Sinéad at some point in 1985, when she had just collaborated with The Edge from U2 on a song called Heroine. She came to a [...]

C OLETTE MAZE, who has died aged 109, began her recording career at the age of 90 after a lifetime spent teaching the piano. She made a speciality of the […]

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 [...]