2014 in music


2014 in music


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

Specific locations

Specific genres

Albums released

Awards

Bands formed

Bands reformed

Bands on hiatus

  • As I Lay Dying
  • Darkside
  • Dredg
  • Foxy Shazam
  • Furthur
  • The Wanted
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bands disbanded

Deaths

January

  • 4 – Phil Everly (74), American musician (The Everly Brothers)
  • 13 – Ronny Jordan (51), British guitarist.
  • 18 – Dennis Frederiksen (62), American singer (Toto), (Survivor)
  • 27 – Pete Seeger (94), American guitarist.

February

  • 5 – Samantha Juste (69), English-American singer and television host.
  • 8 – Finbarr Dwyer (67), Irish accordionist and fiddler.
  • 16 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
  • 17
    • Frank Wappat (84), British DJ and singer.
    • Bob Casale, (61), American guitarist and keyboardist (Devo).
  • 23 – Chip Damiani, (68), American drummer (The Remains)
  • 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.
  • 17 – Cheo Feliciano (78), Puerto Rican singer and composer (Joe Cuba Sextet)
  • 18 – Brian Priestman (87), British conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).

May

  • 13 – Akihiro Yokoyama (49), Japanese thrash metal bassist (United)
  • 25 – Herb Jeffries (100), American singer and actor.

June

  • 18 – Horace Silver (85), American jazz pianist.
  • 21 – Jimmy C. Newman (86), country music singer.

July

  • 3 – Jesse Anderson (73), American blues singer-songwriter and musician.
  • 11 – Charlie Haden (76), American upright-bassist.
  • 19 – Lionel Ferbos (103), American trumpeter.
  • 24 – Christian Falk (52), Swedish record producer and musician.

August

  • 1 – Michael Johns (35), Australian singer and American Idol contestant.
  • 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

  • 1 – Jimi Jamison (63), American singer (Survivor)
  • 2 – Antonis Vardis (66), Greek composer and singer.
  • 8
    • Magda Olivero (104), Italian soprano.
    • Gerald Wilson (96), American jazz trumpeter.
  • 12 – Joe Sample (75), American pianist.
  • 15 – Jackie Cain (86), American jazz singer (Jackie & Roy).
  • 17 – George Hamilton IV (77), American country music singer.
  • 18 – Kenny Wheeler (84), Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

October

  • 1 – Lynsey de Paul (66), English singer
  • 10 – Olav Dale (55), Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader.
  • 16 – Tim Hauser (72), American jazz singer.
  • 20 - Tyson Stevens (29), vocals, additional guitar, bass guitar in Arizona Post Hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids.
  • 23 – Alvin Stardust (72), English 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).
    • Jimmy Ruffin (78), American soul singer
  • 20 – Arthur Butterworth (91), English composer and conductor.

December

  • 8 – Knut Nystedt (99), Norwegian composer.
  • 12 – John Persen (73), Norwegian composer.
  • 22 – Joe Cocker (70), English singer
  • 24 – Buddy DeFranco (91), American jazz clarinetist.
  • 31 – Michael Kennedy (88), English writer on music.

Musical films

  • God Help the Girl
  • Whiplash

See also

  • Timeline of musical events
  • Women in music

References


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