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Byline: By, Zara Woodcock Badfinger star Joey Molland has died aged 77. An announcement was shared on the band's Facebook page. 'Well, the day we never wanted to see has [...]

Admired by fellow musicians like Arthur Rubinstein as well as by the critics, she created what came to be known as an Italian school of piano playing. Maria Tipo, a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Giovanni Russonello Roberta Flack, the magnetic singer and pianist whose intimate blend of soul, jazz and folk made her one of the most popular artists of the 1970s, died [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Maria Tipo, an Italian pianist who married technical mastery with charming unpredictability, receiving international acclaim for her sensitive and expressive interpretations of Scarlatti's sonatas, Bach's Goldberg Variations [...]

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: Telegraph Obituaries 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 [...]

Vic Simms, Uncle Vic Simms, Sydney, Bidjigal Land, Bidjigal elder, New South Wales, Aboriginal, Aboriginal man, musician, storyteller, The Loner Indigenous Australians; Music Acclaimed Aboriginal musician Victor Simms has passed [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Sam Moore, who has died aged 89, was one half of Sam & Dave, the duo who in the late 1960s had such imperishable hits as Soul [...]

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: Jim Farber One of the first rock bassists whose instrument regularly took a lead role, he also had a hand in writing some of the band's best-known songs. Phil [...]

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. [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Lou Donaldson, who has died aged 98, was an alto saxophonist whose fluid, soulful style helped to shape the face of modern jazz; a protégé of the [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries John Barstow, who has died aged 87, stepped back from a brilliant career at the piano to teach many of the next generation of pianists; during more [...]

Michael Henning, a longtime 'KALXer' known as DJ Megasoup and buyer at Berkeley's Amoeba Music, has died at the age of 49. Henning was known by his many friends and [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Rohan de Saram, the cellist who has died aged 85, was a leading light in avant-garde music, spending almost 30 years with the Arditti Quartet performing works [...]

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 [...]