Mike Ratledge, the keyboardist and a co-founder of English rock band Soft Machine, has died, the band’s guitarist John Etheridge confirmed. He was 81 years old. “Incredibly sad news that my ...

Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge died on Wednesday, February 5, after a brief illness, according to his former bandmate and guitarist John Etheridge. “Mike was the ...

Mike Ratledge, founding keyboardist for influential English group Soft Machine, died on Wednesday following a brief illness. He was 81. The news came via current Soft Machine guitarist John ...

By Gil Kaufman Garth Hudson, the inventive keyboard player whose soulful playing was a key part of 1960s/70s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group The Band‘s country-tinged Americana anthems has died ...

Founding Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench will release his second solo album, The Melancholy Season, on March 7. The 13-track collection follows Tench’s solo debut ...

One of the most inventive keyboardists in the history of rock & roll, Hudson was born in Windsor, Ontario, on Aug. 2, 1937 — years before his fellow Band members — to a pair of gifted ...

"The wonderful thing in working with Dylan was the imagery in his lyrics, and I was allowed to play with these words," Hudson told Keyboard magazine in 1983. "I didn't do it incessantly.

Garth Hudson, a Canadian-born keyboardist who helped shape the roots rock sound of The Band, the revered group that performed with Bob Dylan and fused folk, rock, R&B and the blues while helping ...

Barry Goldberg, a blues-rock keyboard player whose work with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band led to playing with Bob Dylan in the 1960s, including the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival concert ...

At the moment, the best hot-swappable keyboard is the Glorious GMMK 3 - it's easily the most customizable way to build your own custom keyboard without diving into the expensive parts world and ...

Most of us had just picked up our instruments as kids and plowed ahead, but Garth was classically trained and could find musical avenues on the keyboard we didn’t know existed. It impressed us ...