Ahmad Jamal obituary | Ahmad Jamal

Jamal at the Louisiana jazz and heritage festival in New Orleans, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Dapper and sagacious, Ahmad Jamal may have looked more like a UN delegate than a jazz musician, but he was recognised as a truly great jazz artist by some of the music’s most notable pioneers. […]

Maxi Jazz obituary | Dance music

Faithless in 1998: Maxi Jazz, centre, Sister Bliss, right, and Dave Randall, guitarist with the group between 1996 and 1999.

Maxi Jazz, who has died aged 65, was a founder member of the British band Faithless. During the late 1990s and early 2000s they became one of the biggest names in electronic dance music, creating […]

Colin Irwin obituary | Folk music

Colin Irwin, left, interviewing the US blues musician Seasick Steve at the Cambridge folk festival, 2010

Though the music journalist Colin Irwin, who has died suddenly aged 71, specialised in folk music, his writing ranged across many genres, especially during the 1970s and 80s, when he worked on Melody Maker magazine. […]

Ivy Jo Hunter obituary | Motown records

Hunter was born in Detroit and was signed to Motown as an artist, songwriter, producer and manager.

Martha Reeves, the lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, liked to nail a song in a single take, and one day in May 1964 she believed she had done a decent job first time […]

Coolio obituary | Rap | The Guardian

Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1995 film Dangerous Minds

Coolio, who has died suddenly aged 59, was an accessible star of the US west coast hip-hop scene whose 1995 single Gangsta’s Paradise became one of the most successful rap songs of all time, topping […]

Robert Cormier dead at 33: Heartland actor’s cause of death is unknown as beloved star is mourned by family in obituary

Cormier was 33 years old

HEARTLAND actor Robert Cormier has died at age 33, his family announced. Cormier was well-known for playing Finn Cotter on the long-running series, which began airing in 2007. 1 Cormier was 33 years oldCredit: Instagram […]

Darius Campbell Danesh obituary | Pop and rock

The Popl Idol finalists of 2002. From left: Gareth Gates, Zoe Birkett, Darius Campbell Danesh, Hayley Evetts and Will Young.

The Scottish singer Darius Campbell Danesh, who has died suddenly aged 41, burst into the early world of reality television when he appeared on the talent show Popstars, the first of its kind, in 2001. […]