sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band whose farewell show with the group was memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s landmark documentary The Last Waltz, died Tuesday in ...

As Garth Hudson neared the end of an 87-year musical journey that had taken him around the world and into many of our hearts, he had one last wish — he wanted to play the grand pipe organ in the ...

During the early years of Eddie Vedder, the Pearl Jam frontman found inspiration in the revolutionary sounds of The Band, ...

Robbie Robertson, the Band’s guitarist and songwriter in the group’s years of stardom (who himself passed away in August of 2023 ), offered a far more effusive assessment of what Hudson brought to the ...

The song appeared in the 1969 cult road movie “Easy Rider.” In the 1970s, The Band sang it with the Staple Singers in “The Last Waltz.” In the 1980s, it showed up in the film “The Big Chill.” In the ...

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.

Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best embodies the glorious, lawless amalgamation of styles at the very heart of rock ...

From buying his first 45 in 1959 at a downtown Oshawa music store to being at the ‘Last Waltz’ recording sessions to interviewing entertainment superstars like John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, ...

In 1976, they performed their farewell concert dubbed The Last Waltz. The Band, minus Robertson, came together for a reunion tour in 1983. Three years later, Manuel died. However, the remaining ...

“The Last Waltz,” in 1976, Hudson played with a variety of partners on numerous recordings but never again reached the level of fame achieved by The Band. Members of The Band dying before him ...