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

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Garth Hudson funeral at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. Amy Helm, second from left, was among those performing at Garth Hudson’s funeral on Monday, Jan. 27 ...

Bob Dylan has announced his first tour dates of 2025, and posted a heartfelt tribute to late Band keyboardist Garth Hudson.

On Tuesday, Garth Hudson ... the nineteen-sixties (though “The Basement Tapes” was not officially released until 1975). It’s hard to talk about Hudson’s contributions to the Band ...

the house where the Band and Bob Dylan transformed music history just by jamming in the basement. Garth Hudson was the mystery man in the Band, the silent one, the only one who didn’t sing.

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 as "Up on Cripple ...

It's so fitting that Garth Hudson was the last man standing from the Band. The beloved organ virtuoso died on Tuesday morning at 87, near Woodstock - just a few miles down the road from Big Pink, the ...

where Bob Dylan and The Band crafted legendary tracks known as the Basement Tapes. Garth Hudson meticulous approach to music arrangement set The Band apart from their contemporaries, allowing them ...

AHudson was a classically trained performer who played piano, synthesizers, horns and his favored Lowrey organ.

By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs ... brilliant sessions that came to be known as the Basement Tapes, “Yazoo Street Scandal” is all stops ...