Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of the influential group The Band, has died. He was 87.

Garth Hudson, the multi-instrumentalist wizard of The Band, the first Canadian group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 87.

circa 1963 [Photo: The Hawks] On a junket to Detroit (across the river from Windsor), The Hawks encountered Garth Hudson playing the organ and horns for a local band, Paul London and the Capers.

Following the Band’s celebrated ... the Juno Awards’ Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989. He was born Eric Garth Hudson in Windsor, Ontario, on Aug. 2, 1937, and grew up in the northeastern ...

When the news of Garth Hudson’s death hit on Tuesday morning, many thoughts flooded my mind all at once. I thought of the sad reality that all five original members of the Band are no longer ...

Eric “Garth” Hudson was born to musician parents in Windsor ... he joined Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm in a rock band called the Hawks, assuaging his parents by stipulating that the group ...

Garth Hudson stood a bit apart in The Band. For one thing, he didn’t sing. Lead guitarist and primary songwriter Robbie Robertson didn’t sing very much either, but he could if necessary.

Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and 1970s rock group the Band, including 'Up on Cripple Creek', 'Chest Fever' and ...

Garth Hudson, the hugely talented multi-instrumentalist best known as The Band‘s keyboard and saxophone player, passed away at the age of 87. The Canadian-American musician was a co-founding ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band's virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards ...

Keyboardist and saxophonist Garth Hudson, perhaps best known for his powerful and memorable Lowrey organ intro for the classic Band song “Chest Fever,” passed away peacefully in his sleep this ...