2014 in music



This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2014 in music.

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Album releases

 * 1) To Be Kind Swans

January

 * 13 – Ronny Jordan (51), British guitarist.
 * 27 – Pete Seeger (94), American guitarist.

February

 * 5 – Samantha Juste (69), English-American singer and television host.
 * 17 – Frank Wappat (84), British DJ and singer.
 * 24 – Franny Beecher (92), American guitarist.
 * 25
 * Paco de Lucía (66), Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.
 * Peter Callander (74), English songwriter and record producer.

March

 * 5 – Dave Sampson (73), English singer.
 * 6 – Marion Stein (Thorpe) (87), British pianist.

April

 * 2 – Lyndsie Holland (75), English actress and singer.
 * 7 – John Shirley-Quirk (83), British operatic bass-baritone.
 * 16 – Stan Kelly-Bootle (84), British songwriter, author and computer engineer.
 * 18 – Brian Priestman (87), British conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).

May

 * 25 – Herb Jeffries (100), American singer and actor.

June

 * 18 – Horace Silver (85), American jazz pianist.

July

 * 11 – Charlie Haden (76), American upright-bassist.
 * 19 – Lionel Ferbos (103), American trumpeter.
 * 24 – Christian Falk (52), Swedish record producer and musician.

August

 * 3 – Yvette Giraud (97), French singer and actress.
 * 15 – Svein Nymo (61), Norwegian violinist and composer.
 * 17 – Pierre Vassiliu (76), Swiss-born French singer.
 * 19 – Kåre Kolberg (78), Norwegian composer.
 * 23 – Inga Juuso (68), singer and actress.
 * 24 – Aldo Donati (66), Italian singer, composer and television personality, (cerebral hemorrhage)
 * 29
 * Jan Groth (68), Norwegian singer (Aunt Mary, Just 4 Fun), (cancer).
 * Peret (79), Spanish singer, guitarist and composer.

September

 * 2 – Antonis Vardis (66), Greek composer and singer.
 * 8 – Gerald Wilson (96), American jazz trumpeter.
 * 12 – Joe Sample (75), American pianist.
 * 18 – Kenny Wheeler (84), Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter, and flugelhorn player.

October

 * 10 – Olav Dale (55), Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader.
 * 16 – Tim Hauser (72), American jazz singer.
 * 25 – Jack Bruce (71), Scottish bassist, composer and orchestra leader.

November

 * 6 – Maggie Boyle (57), British folk singer and musician, (cancer).
 * 14 – Mike Burney (70), British jazz saxophonist.
 * 15 – Cherry Wainer (79), South African-born British organist (Lord Rockingham's XI).
 * 17 – Jeff Fletcher (36), British guitarist (Northern Uproar).
 * 20 – Arthur Butterworth (91), English composer and conductor.

December

 * 8 – Knut Nystedt (99), Norwegian composer.
 * 12 – John Persen (73), Norwegian composer.
 * 24 – Buddy DeFranco (91), American jazz clarinetist.