The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on “Chest Fever,” gave the group a “sound twice as big” and his mates music lessons.

Hudson's keyboard was an essential element of the Band's sound on roots-rock classics such as 'The Weight' and 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.'

Keyboard player Garth Hudson, who also played with Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Roger Waters and more, has died aged 87

ROCK icon Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of the group The Band, has died at age 87. Hudson, an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died in his sleep at a nursing home in

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 table in his 2016 memoir “Testimony”

The Band's last living member, Garth Hudson, has died. He passed away Tuesday morning, while sleeping in a New York nursing home, outlets report. Hudson was 87 years old. The group began as backup musicians for Ronnie Hawkins (Levon and the The Hawks) and then Bob Dylan,

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 "Ophelia,

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist and last surviving member of The Band, has died. He was 87. Hudson “passed away peacefully in his sleep” on Tuesday morning at a nursing home in Woodstock, New York, his estate executor confirmed to the Toronto Star.

A multifaceted musician, he was the last surviving original member of an influential group that mixed rock, r&b and an Americana sound.

The last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday. He was a master on keys and saxophones who could conjure a panoply of scenes and eras.

Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of The Band, has died, aged 87. His death was confirmed by the Toronto Star, who report that Hudson passed away peacefully in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock, N.Y.