Garth Hudson, the multi-instrumentalist who served as the principal architect of the Band's sound, has died at 87.

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.'

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.

He was the last of The Band's five members—four Canadians and an Arkansas drummer—who turned popular music on its ear in 1968.

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

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician, has died at age 87. Hudson, the eldest and last survivor of the group which once backed Bob Dylan, has died at age 87.

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”

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band, died January 21 in his sleep in Woodstock, NY. He was 87.

Organist Eric “Garth” Hudson of rock group The Band, died on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at age 87. He was the last surviving member of the original 1960s and ‘70s group. Hudson was also the only member of The Band to never sing on stage.

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 last surviving member of Canadian-American rock group The Band, has died. Hudson died in his sleep Tuesday morning at a nursing home in Woodstock, New York following a “lengthy illness,