2015 in music



This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2015 in music.

Specific locations
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Specific genres
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Album releases

 * 1) Rituals Other Lives

Best Albums

 * Critics' Best Albums of 2015

January

 * 1 – Matthew Cogley (30), British musician and songwriter (Failsafe).
 * 6 – Lance Percival (81), British actor and singer.
 * 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.

March

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

April

 * 1 – Dave Ball (65), British musician (Procol Harum).
 * 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

 * 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.

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 – Eddie Hardin (66), British singer-songwriter and pianist (The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point).

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)

September

 * 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.

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 - Ian Kilmister (Lemmy) (70), English musician, singer and songwriter (Motörhead, Hawkwind, The Rockin' Vickers and Headcat)
 * 30 - Zjef Vanuytsel (70), Belgian folk singer.
 * 31 – Natalie Cole (65), American singer, songwriter, and actress (congestive heart failure).