01/01/20

Marty Grebb

member of the Buckinghams

73

01/07/20

Neal Peart

Rush band drummer

67

glioblastoma

01/15/20

Chris Darrow

rock & folk musician (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

75

stroke

01/17/20

Cluadio Roditi

Brazilian-born jazz trumpeter

73

cancer

01/18/20

David Olney

folk singer-songwriter

71

heart attack

01/19/20

Jimmy Heath

jazz sax great, composer

93

01/26/20

Bob Shane

singer, guitar, founding member of the Kingston Trio

85

02/01/20

Peter Serkin

classical pianist

72

pancreatic cancer

02/01/20

Andy Gill

alternative rock guitarist (Gang of Four)

64

02/05/20

Buddy Cage

pedal steel guitarist (New Riders of the Purple Sage)

73

cancer

02/07/20

Steve Weber

folk musician, co-founder of Holy Modal Rounders, the Fugs

76

02/10/20

Lyle Mays

pianist, keyboardist, composer (Pat Metheny Group)

66

02/11/20

Joseph Shabalala

South African founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo

79

02/13/20

Buzzy Linhart

folk-rock singer-songwriter

76

02/17/20

Henry Gray

blues pianist, singer

95

02/18/20

Jon Christensen

Norwegian jazz drummer, regular on ECM records

76

03/04/20

Barbara Martin

vocalist with the Supremes

76

03/06/20

McCoy Tyner

jazz piano great

81

03/09/20

Keith Olson

producer, engineer (Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

74

cardiac arrest

03/09/20

Eric Taylor

Folk singer-songwriter

70

03/20/20

Kenny Rogers

country & rock singer

81

03/21/20

Ray Mantilla

jazz percussionist

85

lymphoma

03/22/20

Mike Longo

Jazz pianist, band leader

83

COVID-19

03/22/20

Eric Weissberg

folk musician ("Dueling Banjos")

80

Alzheimer's

03/29/20

Joe Diffie

Country singer-songwriter

61

COVID-19

03/23/20

Apple Gabriel

Jamaican reggae singer (Israel Vibratioh)

68

03/29/20

Alan Merrill

musician, songwriter "I Love Rock 'n' Roll")

69

COVID-19

03/30/20

Bill Withers

singer-songwriter ("Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me")

81

heart disease

03/31/20

Wallace Roney

jazz trumpeter

59

COVID-19

04/01/20

Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

jazz pianist, "patriarch"

85

COVID-19

04/01/20

Bucky Pizzarelli

jazz guitarist

94

COVID-19

04/01/20

Adam Schlesinger

singer-songwriter-bassist with Fountains of Wayne

52

COVID-19

04/04/20

Alex Harvey

singer-songwriter

79

04/06/20

Onaje Allan Gumbs

jazz pianist

70

04/07/20

John Prine

singer-songwriter

73

COVID-19

04/07/20

Hal Willner

Music producer

64

COVID-19

04/07/20

Eddy Davis

trad jazz banjo player

79

04/08/20

Peter Eklund

jazz cornetist

74

Parkinson's

04/09/20

Andy Gonzalez

Jazz & Latin bassist

69

04/10/20

Jymie Merritt

jazz bassist (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers)

93

liver cancer

04/12/20

Jerry Hludzik

singer-songwriter (Dakota Jerry-Kelly Band, The Buoys)

68

frontotemporal dementia

04/13/20

Ryo Kawasaki

jazz guitarist

73

04/13/20

Joe Torres

salsa & jazz pianist

76

04/15/20

Lee Konitz

jazz saxophonist

92

COVID-19

04/15/20

Eddie Cooley

songwriter, so-wrote "Fever"

87

04/15/20

Henry Grimes

jazz bassist

84

COVID-19

04/21/20

Florian Schneider

German electronic musician, Kraftwerk

73

cancer

04/22/20

Bootsie Barnes

jazz saxophonist

82

04/27/20

Larry Gelb

Scranton-native Jazz pianist, composer

71

04/27/20

Lynn Harrell

renowned classical cellist

76

04/30/20

Tony Allen

Nigerian Afro-Beat drummer (Fela Kuti)

79

aneurysm

05/02/20

Richie Cole

jazz alto saxophonist, composer

72

05/05/20

Sweet Pea Atkinson

soul and rock vocalist (Was Not Was)

74

heart attack

05/06/20

Brian Howe

British rock musician, singer (Bad Company)

66

heart attack

05/09/20

Little Richard Penniman

Rock & Foll Hall of Fame singer

87

bone cancer

05/10/20

Betty Wright

soul-disco singer-songwriter

66

05/11/20

Moon Martin

rock singer-singwriter

69

05/14/20

Jorge Santana

Mexican-born guitarist (Malo), brother of Carlos Santana

68

05/17/20

Lucky Peterson

blues singer, guitarist & pianist

55

05/22/20

Mory Kante

Guinean singer and Kora player

70

05/24/20

Jimmy Cobb

jazz drummer great (Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue")

91

lung cancer

05/28/20

Lennie Niehaus

saxophonist, film composer ("Bridges of Madison County")

90

06/01/20

Majek Fashek

Nigerian reggae artist

57

06/07/20

Rupert Hine

English musician, composer, producer

72

cancer

06/08/20

Bonnie Pointer

singer-songwriter, co-founder of the Pointer Sisters

69

06/14/20

Keith Tippet

English keyboard player (King Crimson)

72

06/18/20

Vera Lynn

British singer famous during WWII

103

06/27/20

Freddie Cole

jazz vocal great

88

cardiovascular disease

06/27/20

Pete Carr

guitar (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section)

70

06/29/20

Johnny Mandel

prolific composer ("Suicide Is Painless," "The Shadow of Your Smile")

94

07/05/20

Cleveland Eaton

jazz bassist

80

07/06/20

Ennio Morricone

Italian film composer ("TheGood, The Bad & the Ugly")

91

complications from a fall

07/06/20

Charlie Daniels

country singer-songwriter

83

stroke

07/10/20

Eddie Gale

jazz trumpeter

78

07/12/20

Judy Dyble

English folk singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention)

71

lung cancer

07/16/20

Jamie Oldaker

rock drummer (Eric Clapton, The Tractors)

68

07/21/20

Annie Ross

jazz singer (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)

89

emphysema, heart disease

07/25/20

Peter Green

pioneering English blues-rocker (Fleetwood Mac)

73

07/26/20

Helen Jones Woods

trombonist with pioneering International Sweethearts of Rhythm

96

07/28/20

Bent Fabric

Danish pianist, composer ("Alley Cat")

95

08/02/20

Larry Novak

jazz pianist

87

08/02/20

Leon Fleisher

classical pianist

92

08/03/20

Michael (Peter) Smith

folk singer-songwriter

78

08/05/20

Chip White

jazz drummer

73

08/11/20

Trini Lopez

pop singer

83

COVID-19

08/13/20

Steve Grossman

jazz saxophonist

69

08/14/20

Pete Way

English bassist (UFO, Fastway)

69

injuries from accident

08/14/20

Julian Bream

classical guitarist, lutenist

87

08/18/20

Jack Sherman

rock guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

64

08/20/20

Justin Townes Earle

singer-songwriter

38

08/23/20

Charlie Persip

jazz drummer

91

09/04/20

Gary Peacock

jazz bass great

85

09/06/20

Bruce Williamson

member of the Temptations

49

COVID-19

09/11/20

Reggie Johnson

jazz bassist

79

09/11/20

Toots Hibbert

reggae pioneer (Toots & the Maytals)

77

COVID-19

09/16/20

Stanley Crouch

jazz critic. author

74

09/19/20

Lee Kerslake

rock bassist (Uriah Hepp, Ozzy Osborne)

73

cancer

09/21/20

Tommy DeVito

founding member of rock pioneers The Four Seasons

94

COVID-19

09/21/20

Ira Sullivan

jazz trumpeter, saxophonist

89

cancer

09/28/20

Maynard Solomon

founded Vanguard Records, home to many 1960s folk artists

90

09/29/20

Mac David

country music star

78

complications from heart surgery

09/29/20

Helen Reddy

Australian-born singer and pop star ("I Am Woman")

78

10/06/20

Eddie Van Halen

rock guitar great

65

throat cancer

10/06/20

Johnny Nash

singer-songwriter ("I Can See Clearly Now")

80

10/15/20

Gordon Haskell

English musician (King Crimson), singer-songwriter

74

lung cancer

10/19/20

Spencer Davis

British rock singer, guitarist

81

pneumonia

10/19/20

Tony Lewis

bassist & lead vocalist with British pop band The Outfield

62

10/21/20

Viola Smith

pioneering woman drummer in swing bands

107

Alzheimer's disease

10/23/20

Jerry Jeff Walker

singer-songwriter ("Mr. Bojangles")

78

throat cancer

10/28/20

Billy Joe Shaver

country musician, singer-songwriter

81

stroke

10/31/20

Marc Fosset

French jazz guitarist

71

11/07/20

Candido Camero "Candido"

Cuban percussionist, Latin jazz pioneer

99

11/07/20

Bones Hillman

Australian bassist (Midnight Oil)

62

11/11/20

Andrew White

jazz saxophonist, musicologist

78

11/17/20

Des O'Connor

British singer & TV personality

88

complications from fall

11/12/20

Jim Tucker

founding member of The Turtles

74

11/18/20

Tony Hooper

British rock guitarist (The Strawbs)

81

11/23/20

Hal Ketchum

country singer-songwriter

67

complications from dementia

12/08/20

Harold Budd

pianist, composer of minimalist music

84

12/10/20

Charley Pride

country music star

86

COVID-19

12/10/20

Joseph Morganfield

blues singer, son of Muddy Waters

56

12/17/20

Stanley Cowell

jazz pianist

79

12/17/20

Jeff Clayton

jazz saxophonist

66

cancer

12/18/20

Chad Stewart

English singer, musician (Chad & Jeremy)

79

pneumonia

12/21/20

K.T. Oslin

country singer-songwriter

78

12/22/20

Leslie West

rock guitarist (Mountain)

75

heart attack

12/25/20

Tony Rice

bluegrass guitar great

69

12/29/20

Claude Bolling

French jazz pianist and bandleader

90

12/30/20

Frank Kimbrough

jazz pianist and educator

64

12/30/20

Eugene Wright

jazz bassist (Dave Brubeck Quartet)

97