By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial Lowrey organ, he summoned Bach, hymns, the gospel church or a circus calliope. At the piano ...

Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and '70s rock group the Band including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and ...

Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best ...

John Sykes, a veteran hard-rock guitarist who was a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and the Tygers of Pan Tang, has died, according to a post on his official Facebook page. He had battled cancer for ...

Even if his death is the end of the Band, their fellowship lives on in the music they made, as vibrantly as ever, with Garth Hudson holding it all together, as he always did. Jimmy Kimmel Says if ...

The music in heaven just got a whole lot sweeter now that Honey Boy is home,” Old Dutch Church Church Pastor Robert Sweeney ...

The last surviving member of the pioneering Canadian-American roots-rock group, he was an almost mythical figure who blended ...

Garth Hudson in 1969. The Band’s songwriter and ... A musical polymath whose work room at home included arcana like sheet music for century-old standards and hymns, he played almost anything ...

He added, “It’s all country music; it just depends on what country we’re talking about.” Born on Aug. 2, 1937, in Windsor, Ontario, Eric Garth Hudson was the son of a musically inclined ...

The last of the five members of the iconic American rock group, The Band, Garth Hudson’s death is the end of an era.

Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of The Band, has died. He was 87. Hudson died early Tuesday in a nursing home near Woodstock, New York, his former manager, Jim Della Croce, confirmed to USA ...