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NEW YORK (AP) — George Winston, the Grammy-winning pianist who blended jazz, classical, folk and other stylings on such million-selling albums as “Autumn,” “Winter Into Spring' and “December,” has died [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Ingrid Haebler, the Austrian pianist who has died aged 96, was known as 'Madame Mozart' thanks to her exquisite interpretations of the composer's music, notably in recordings [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Daniel Chorzempa, who has died aged 78, was a teenage musical prodigy who matured into one of the finest organists of his generation. Following his debut recital [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Ray Shulman, who has died aged 73, was a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer who co-founded the progressive rock group Gentle Giant before going on to work with [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Errol Dixon, who has died aged 86, was a distinctive pianist, singer and songwriter who helped to popularise ska, soul and blues in the UK during the [...]

Byline: ANNIE MARTIN Former Luscious Jackson musician Vivian Trimble has died. Trimble, a founding member and instrumentalist for the 1990s indie rock band, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer, [...]

TOKYO, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Renowned Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has died at the age of 71, his agency reported Sunday. The award-winning artist passed [...]

MARTIN DUFFY, who has died after a fall aged 55, was the keyboards player with Primal Scream, notably on the group's era-defining acid rock album Screamadelica, which in 1991 won […]

When I was eight or nine, my father took me to see Pharoah Sanders in a little bitty club. I remember it was fun being out at night, but I [...]

Byline: By, Steven Smith Wilko Johnson has died aged 75, a statement on an official Facebook page for the musician said. The Dr Feelgood star had previously been diagnosed with [...]

Byline: By, Steven Smith Wilko Johnson has died aged 75, a statement on an official Facebook page for the musician said. The Dr Feelgood star had previously been diagnosed with [...]

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 [...]

PHAROAH SANDERS, who has died aged 81, was an innovative saxophonist famed for his free-form arrangements that became known as 'spiritual jazz'; he was described by Ornette Coleman as 'the […]

Byline: By, Daniel Bird Cormac Roth, the son of Tim Roth, has died aged 25, his heartbroken family have confirmed. The music producer and composer passed away on October 16 [...]

Byline: Barry Millington In his decade from 1987 as chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech musician Libor Pešek, who has died aged 89, transformed it into [...]

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 [...]

Coolio was the musician who rose to stardom with 'Gangsta's Paradise', a Nineties mega-hit and one of the most successful rap singles of all time. Released in 1995, it became [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Sulamita Aronovsky, who has died aged 93, was the formidable founder and indefatigable artistic controller of the London Piano Competition, which enjoyed sponsorship of almost £500,000 from [...]

''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 [...]

DERRICK CANTRELL, who has died aged 96, was organist and master of the choristers at Manchester Cathedral from 1962 to 1977; he was also conductor of the cathedral's larger Cantata […]

Byline: Barry Millington The German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt, who has died aged 51 of cancer, came to prominence after taking second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano [...]

LARS VOGT, who has died from cancer aged 51, was a German-born pianist and conductor who captured the imagination of British audiences with a daring, some said mercurial, account of […]

Byline: Robin Denselow The musician, songwriter and producer Tom Springfield, who has died aged 88, became massively successful in the 1960s but hated being in the public eye. Best known [...]

Byline: Gary Miles Aug. 25Sidney Curtiss, 91, formerly of Philadelphia, a longtime member of the Philadelphia Orchestra, award-winning music coach at the Settlement Music School, and inspirational mentor, died Wednesday, [...]

Byline: Richard Williams Despite occasional valiant efforts, the cello was among a group of European concert instruments -- such as the bassoon, the oboe and the French horn -- that [...]

ANDREW BALL, who has died from complications of Parkinson's disease aged 72, was a conscientious and selfeffacing British pianist who made his mark by exploring contemporary and modern music at […]

BOB NEUWIRTH, who has died aged 82, was celebrated both as an abstract painter and a bluesy singersongwriter, achieving his most conspicuous commercial success as co-writer of the Janis Joplin […]

Byline: Gary Miles Aug. 3Meva Moore Justice, 64, of Philadelphia, a retired multitalented manager at Verizon, volunteer, musician, and mentor, died Wednesday, July 20, of pancreatic cancer at her home. [...]

Byline: Phil Davison Mick Moloney, an Irish-American musicologist and multi-instrumentalist who was a driving force in playing, recording, producing and teaching Irish folk music at concerts and arts and dance [...]

PAUL RYDER, who has died suddenly aged 58, was a musician whose bass guitar-playing was the funky heartbeat of the Happy Mondays, the band he founded alongside his older brother […]

RICHARD SEAL, who has died aged 86, was the cathedral music director who introduced girls to the choir stalls at Salisbury in 1991; the move heralded a transformation of the […]

Byline: Alexis Petridis If you had been asked, in 1986, which of the year's crop of indie bands would become huge mainstream stars -- and in the process make such [...]

BARBARA THOMPSON, who has died aged 77, was a trailblazing saxophonist and flautist who battered down barriers to break into the then male-dominated world of British jazz, becoming widely celebrated […]

Byline: Chris Jordan, Asbury Park Press Alec John Such, who went from managing the former Jernee Mill Inn in Sayreville to playing bass guitar for Bon Jovi, has died, the [...]

Byline: Barry Millington Simon Preston, who has died aged 83, was organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey from 1981 to 1987 and previously organist at Christ Church, [...]

Byline: By, Associated Press & Matt Gibson Alec John Such, the bassist and a founding member of Bon Jovi, has died at the age of 70. Jon Bon Jovi on [...]

Byline: By, Associated Press & Matt Gibson Alec John Such, the bassist and a founding member of Bon Jovi, has died at the age of 70. Jon Bon Jovi on [...]

Byline: By, Associated Press & Matt Gibson Alec John Such, the bassist and a founding member of Bon Jovi, has died at the age of 70. Jon Bon Jovi on [...]