2015 In Music

• List of 2015 albums

January

• 1 – Matthew Cogley (30), British musician and songwriter (Failsafe).
• 6 – Lance Percival (81), British actor and singer.
• 13
  • Ronnie Ronalde (91), British siffleur and yodeller.
  • Trevor Ward-Davies (70), English bassist (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
• 19 – Ward Swingle (87), American jazz singer (The Swingle Singers).
• 22 – Joan Hinde (81), British trumpet player.
• 27 – Margot Moir (55), Scottish-born Australian singer (The Moir Sisters).
• 29 – Danny McCulloch (69), British bassist (Eric Burdon & The Animals).

February

• 12 – Steve Strange (55), British musician (Visage).
• 21 – Clark Terry (94), American jazz trumpeter.
• 22 – Erik Amundsen (78), Norwegian jazz upright-bassist.
• 23 – Ron Edgar (68), American rock drummer (The Music Machine)

March

• 21 – Jørgen Ingmann, (89), Danish guitarist.

April

• 1
  • Dave Ball (65), British musician (Procol Harum).
  • Sandy Mason (75), American country music singer-songwriter
• 3 – Andrew Porter (86), British organist, music critic, and opera director
• 10 – Ronald Hambleton (97), English-born Canadian broadcaster and music critic (Toronto Star).
• 13 – Ronnie Carroll (80), Northern Irish singer.
• 17 – Brian Couzens (86), British music industry executive (Chandos Records).

May

• 6 – Dottie Dillard (91), American pop singer (The Anita Kerr Quartet)
• 14 – B.B. King (89), American blues guitarist.
• 20 – Bob Belden (58), American jazz saxophonist.
• 23 – Marcus Belgrave (78), American jazz trumpeter.
• 31 – Slim Richey (77), American jazz guitarist.

June

• 11 – Ornette Coleman (85), American jazz saxophonist.
• 12 – Monica Lewis (93), American singer and actress.
• 21 – Gunther Schuller (89), American composer, conductor, and horn player.
• 27 – Joe Bennett (75), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Joe Bennett & the Sparkletones)

July

• 1
  • Val Doonican (88), Irish-born singer.
  • Edward Greenfield (86), British music critic and broadcaster.
• 13 – Eric Wrixon (68), British musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland (Them, Thin Lizzy).
• 22
  • Daron Norwood (49), American country music singer
  • Eddie Hardin (66), British singer-songwriter and pianist (The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point).
• 31 – Pamela Brandt (68), American country-rock bassist, singer and songwriter (The Deadly Nightshade)

August

• 1 – Cilla Black (72), British singer and presenter.
• 12 – John Scott (59), British organist and choirmaster.
• 14 – Jazz Summers (71), British music manager (Scissor Sisters, The Verve, Snow Patrol), (lung cancer)
• 20 – Laurent Rossi (67), French singer, songwriter, and record producer (Bimbo Jet)

September

• 4 – Hal Willis (82), Canadian country music singer
• 29 – Phil Woods (83), American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer

October

• 9 – Larry Rosen (75), American drummer, entrepreneur, and music producer.
• 22 – Mark Murphy (83), American singer.
• 28 – Diane Charlemagne (51), English dance singer (52nd Stree, Urban Cookie Collective)

November

• 5 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (92).
• 25 – Svein Christiansen, Norwegian drummer (74).

December

 

• 3 – Scott Weiland (48), American musician, singer and songwriter (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver and Art of Anarchy)
• 28
  • Guru Josh (51), acid house DJ
  • Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister (70), English musician, singer and songwriter (Motörhead, Hawkwind, The Rockin' Vickers)
• 30 – Zjef Vanuytsel (70), Belgian folk singer.
• 31 – Natalie Cole (65), American singer, songwriter, and actress (congestive heart failure).

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