A collection of music by musicians who passed away in 2016. One track from each artist, in the order they departed.
The embedded Spotify player is capped at 200 songs. The full list has tracks from 340 musicians and is over 22 hours long. You can listen to the full list with the Spotify web player.
1
– Mark B
– Annie de Reuver
3
– Paul Bley
– Brad Fuller [Atari]
– Jason Mackenroth [Rollins Band, Mother Superior, Blue Man Group]
4
– Long John Hunter
5
– Nicholas Caldwell [The Whispers]
6
– Alfredo “Chocolate” Armenteros
7
– Kitty Kallen
– Troy Shondell
8
– Otis Clay
– Red Simpson
– Brett Smiley
9
– John Berry [Idaho]
10
– David Bowie
– Hernán Gamboa
15
– Pete Huttlinger [John Denver]
16
– Gary Loizzo [American Breed]
17
– Dale Griffin [Mott the Hoople]
– Mic Gillette [Tower of Power, Cold Blood, The Sons of Champlin]
– Clarence Reid (Blowfly)
– Ramblin’ Lou Schriver
18
– Glenn Frey [The Eagles]
23
– Cadalack Ron
24
– Jimmy Bain [Rainbow, Thin Lizzy, Dio]
– Zarkus Poussa [RinneRadio]
26
– Black
28
– Paul Kantner [Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship]
– Signe Toly Anderson [Jefferson Airplane]
29
– Billy Faier
31
– Janusz Muniak
– Terry Wogan
February
1
– Jon Bunch [Sense Field, Further Seems Forever]
3
– Brad Kent [D.O.A., Subhumans]
– Big Kap [The Flip Squad]
4
– Maurice White [Earth Wind & Fire]
– Joe Dowell
6
– Eddy Wally
– Dan Hicks [Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks]
9
– Roy Harris
13
– Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe, Jack Dakin [Viola Beach]
14
– Anselmo López
– L. C. Ulmer
15
– Vanity [Vanity 6]
18
– Paul Gordon [B52’s, New Radicals]
– Pantelis Pantelidis
19
– Vi Subversa [Poison Girls]
– Harald Devold [Oslo Groove Company]
21
– Betty Jane Watson
22
– Sonny James
23
– Rey Caney [Los Compadres, Vieja Trova Santiaguera]
24
– Lennie Baker [Danny and the Juniors, Sha Na Na]
25
– John Chilton [John Chilton’s Feetwarmers]
26
– C. L. Blast
– Nina Dorda
27
– James Atkins [Hammerbox]
– Gordon Ranney [The Gomers, Zombeatles]
29
– Josefin Nilsson
March
1
– Gayle McCormick [Smith]
3
– John Thomas [Budgie]
– Gavin Christopher
4
– Ekrem Jevrić
– Joey Martin Feek [Joey + Rory]
– Bankroll Fresh
6
– Ireng Maulana
– Kalabhavan Mani
– Aaron Huffman [Harvey Danger]
7
– Bruce Geduldig [Tuxedomoon]
– Joe Cabot [Bobby Darin, Tommy Dorsey]
8
– George Martin [The Beatles]
– Ross Hannaford [Daddy Cool]
– Andrew Loomis [Dead Moon]
9
– Naná Vasconcelos
– Ray Griff
– Jon English
10
– Gogi Grant
– Keith Emerson [The Nice, Emerson Lake & Palmer]
– Ernestine Anderson
11
– Shawn Elliott
– Joe Ascione
12
– Conor Walsh
– Tommy Brown [The Griffin Brothers]
15
– Lyubka Rondova
– Daryl Coley
16
– Frank Sinatra, Jr.
– Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
– Lee Andrews [Lee Andrews & the Hearts]
17
– Steve Young
– Trần Lập [Bức Tường]
19
– Scabs [Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13]
21
– Nomoreloss
22
– Phife Dawg [A Tribe called Quest]
23
– Jimmy Riley [The Sensations, The Uniques]
– James Jamerson, Jr. [Chanson]
24
– Roger Cicero
25
– Shannon Bolin
26
– Joe Skyward [The Posies, Sunny Day Real Estate]
– Ross Shapiro [The Glands]
– David Baker
30
– Gianmaria Testa
– Larry Payton [Brass Construction]
– Andy Newman [Thunderclap Newman]
April
2
– Gato Barbieri
3
– Kōji Wada
– Lola Novaković
– Don Francks
– Bill Henderson
4
– Manolo Tena
– Getatchew Mekurya [The Ex]
– Carlo Mastrangelo [Dion and The Belmonts]
5
– Jos de Rooij
– Leon Haywood
6
– Merle Haggard
– Dennis Davis [David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Iggy Pop]
7
– Jimmie Van Zant
– Jade Lemons [Injected
8
– Jack Hammer
9
– Tony Conrad
11
– Emile Ford [Emile Ford & The Checkmates]
12
– Gib Guilbeau [Flying Burrito Brothers]
– Robbie Brennan [Phil Lynott, Clannad]
16
– Peter Rock
– Ismael Quintana
19
– Richard Lyons [Negativland]
– Pete Zorn [Steeleye Span, Gerry Rafferty, Richard Thompson]
21
– Prince
– Lonnie Mack
23
– Bill Sevesi
– Vjatšeslav Kobrin [Magnetic Band]
24
– Papa Wemba
– Billy Paul
30
– Harrison Calloway [The Muscle Shoals Horns]
May
1
– Doug Raney
3
– Jadranka Stojaković
4
– Olle Ljungström [Reeperbahn]
5
– Isao Tomita
6
– Hannes Bauer
– Candye Kane
7
– John Stabb [Government Issue]
10
– Riki Sorsa
11
– Peter Behrens [Trio]
– Joe Temperley
12
– Julius La Rosa
13
– Buster Cooper
14
– Lasse Mårtenson
– Paul Smoker [Paul Smoker Trio]
15
– Cauby Peixoto
17
– Guy Clark
19
– John Berry [Beastie Boys]
21
– Nick Menza [Megadeth]
27
– Marshall Jones [Ohio Players]
28
– Floyd Robinson
30
– Jimmy Borges
– Thomas Fekete [Surfer Blood]
31
– Corry Brokken
June
2
– Häns’che Weiss
– Freddie Wadling [Liket Lever, Cortex, Straitjacket, Leather Nun, Blue for Two]
3
– Dave Swarbrick [Fairport Convention]
4
– Bobby Curtola
7
– Juana la del Revuelo
– Amber Gurung
8
– Brian Rading [Five Man Electrical Band]
10
– Habib
– Christina Grimmie
12
– Chris Warren [The DX Band]
14
– Henry McCullough [Spooky Tooth, Wings]
– OJB Jezreel
16
– Charles Thompson
– Jerome Teasley [Wilson Pickett, Junior Walker]
17
– Tenor Fly [Freestylers]
– Prince B [PM Dawn]
20
– Chayito Valdez
21
– Pierre Lalonde
– Wayne Jackson [Mar-keys, Mephis Horns]
22
– Amjad Sabri
– Jim Boyd
23
– Ralph Stanley [Stanley Brothers]
24
– Asım Can Gündüz
– Bernie Worrell [Parliament-Funkadelic]
25
– Maurice G. Dantec [Artefact]
– Ben Patterson
26
– Mike Pedicin
27
– Sir Mack Rice
28
– Scotty Moore [Elvis Presley]
29
– Veena Sahasrabuddhe
– Rob Wasserman
30
– Don Friedman
– Juan Habichuela
July
2
– Teddy Rooney [The Yellow Payges]
– Renée de Haan
3
– Tomohiko Kira [ZABADAK]
4
– William Hawkins
6
– Danny Smythe [The Box Tops]
9
– Geneviève Castrée
10
– Leif Nylén [Blå Tåget]
11
– Minerva Herrera [Martín y Minerva]
13
– Steven Young [Colourbox, MARRS]
– El Lebrijano
15
– Roland Prince
– Erik Petersen [Mischief Brew]
– Charles Davis [Sun Ra]
– Craviotto [The Ducks, Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder, Moby Grape]
16
– Claude Williamson
– Alan Vega [Suicide]
– Bonnie Brown [The Browns]
18
– Bobby Ramirez [Lighter Shade of Brown]
– Mubarak Begum
19
– Tamás Somló [Locomotiv GT]
21
– Lewie Steinberg [Booker T. & the M.G.’s]
24
– Marni Nixon
– Keith Gemmell [Audience]
26
– Roye Albrighton [Nektar]
– Allan Barnes [The Blackbyrds]
28
– Lachhu Maharaj
29
– Fred Tomlinson [Monty Python]
– José Menese
– Daasebre Gyamena
– Lucille Dumont
31
– Mike Mohede
August
3
– Ricci Martin
4
– Snaffu Rigor [Ramrods, Cinderella]
5
– Richard Fagan
– Vander Lee
7
– B.E. Taylor
– Ruby Winters
11
– Glenn Yarbrough
12
– Ruby Wilson
13
– Connie Crothers
14
– DJ Official
– James Woolley [Nine Inch Nails]
15
– Bobby Hutcherson
– Bob Kindred
17
– Denis Čabrić [Regina]
– Preston Hubbard [The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Roomful of Blues]
19
– Horacio Salgán
– Derek Smith
20
– Kid Cali
– Matt Roberts [3 Doors Down]
– Tom Searle [Architects]
– Louis Smith
– Louis Stewart
21
– Headley Bennett
22
– Gilli Smyth [Gong, Soft Machine]
– Toots Thielemans
23
– Mohammad Heydari
25
– Norman Killeen [Threat Signal]
– Eddy Silitonga
26
– Ab Tamboer [Earth and Fire]
28
– Juan Gabriel
30
– Hoot Hester
31
– Ken Rhodes
September
1
– Kacey Jones
– Fred Hellerman [The Weavers]
4
– Bob Bissonnette
7
– Farhang Sharif
– Clifford Curry
8
– Prince Buster
11
– Leonard Haze [Y&T]
13
– Sunil Bardewa
16
– Jerry Corbetta [Sugarloaf]
– Trisco Pearson [Force M.D.s]
17
– Charmian Carr
18
– Mandoza
21
– Shawty Lo [D4L]
24
– Buckwheat Zydeco
25
– Kashif [B.T. Express]
– Hagen Liebing [Die Ärzte]
– Jean Shepard
26
– Joe Clay
– Karel Růžička
29 – Nora Dean
30
– Oscar Brand
– Michael Casswell
October
1
– Toni Williams
2
– Steve Byrd [Gillan, Kim Wilde]
3
– Joan Marie Johnson [The Dixie Cups]
4
– Caroline Crawley [This Mortal Coil]
5
– Rod Temperton [Heatwave]
8
– Don Ciccone [The Critters, The Four Seasons, Tommy James and the Shondells]
9
– Fergus Miller [Bored Nothing]
– Angus Grant [Shooglenifty, Swamptrash]
10
– Issa Bagayogo
14
– Werner Lämmerhirt
18
– Mike Daniels [The Delta Jazzmen]
– Bobby Ellis
20
– Achieng Abura [Divas of The Nile]
– Mieke Telkamp
23
– Pete Burns [Dead or Alive]
24
– Eddy Christiani
– Bobby Vee
26
– Raj Begum
27
– Nelson Pinedo
– Bobby Wellins
28
– Melhem Barakat
29
– Paul Demers
November
1
– Bap Kennedy [Energy Orchard]
– Pocho La Pantera
2
– Bob Cranshaw
3
– W. D. Amaradeva
– Kay Starr
4
– Eddie Harsch [The Black Crowes]
– Jean-Jacques Perrey
5
– Laurent Pardo [Elliott Murphy]
6
– Biser Kirov
7
– Leonard Cohen
– Jimmy Young
9
– Al Caiola
– Martin Stone
11
– Victor Bailey [Weather Report]
– Doug Edwards [Skylark, Glass Tiger]
– A. Nayyar
12
– Jacques Werup
13
– Leon Russell
14
– Holly Dunn
15
– Mose Allison
17
– Don Waller [Imperial Dogs]
18
– Sharon Jones [Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings]
– Hugh McDonald [Redgum]
20
– Craig Gill [Inspiral Carpets]
– Hod O’Brien
21
– Blakdyak
22
– M. Balamuralikrishna
23
– Brainbug
24
– Colonel Abrams
– Shirley Bunnie Foy
– Pauline Oliveros
28
– Ray Columbus [Ray Columbus & the Invaders]
– Carlton Kitto
30
– Amar Ezzahi
December
1
– Micky Fitz [The Business]
2
– Mark Gray
3
– Herb Hardesty
– Antonio Membrado
4
– Radim Hladík [Blue Effect]
– Wayne Duncan [Daddy Cool]
5
– Big Syke
– Mona Maraachli
– Adam Sagan [Circle II Circle]
7
– Mohamed Tahar Fergani
– Greg Lake [ELP, King Crimson]
8
– Palani Vaughan
10
– George Mantalis [The Four Coins]
11
– Valerie Gell [The Liverbirds]
– Joe Ligon [Mighty Clouds of Joy]
– Esma Redžepova
12
– Jim Lowe
– Mark Fisher [Matt Bianco]
– Lucila Campos
– Barrelhouse Chuck
13
– Betsy Pecanins
14
– Bunny Walters
– Päivi Paunu
– Arnie Norse
18
– Sven Zetterberg
– Gordie Tapp
– Gustavo Quintero
– Léo Marjane
21
– Betty Loo Taylor
– Abdul Gafur Hali
23
– Mick Zane [Malice]
24
– Rick Parfitt [Status Quo]
25
– George Michael [Wham!]
– Alphonse Mouzon
28
– Knut Kiesewetter