2004 in music

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Deaths

• January 13 - Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby
• January 17 - Czeslaw Niemen (65) - Polish rock singer
• January 17 - Tom Rowe, musician
• January 22 - Billy May (87) - US big band & pop music arranger
• January 22 - Ann Miller, actress, singer and dancer
• February 1 - Rocco Clein, 35, journalist, musician (http://www.turbojugend.net/pg/detail.php?k_id=1&a_id=1477); (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocco_Clein)
• February 3 - Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
• February 8 - Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
• February 16 - Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
• February 21 - Bart Howard, 87, composer and pianist
• February 23 - Don Cornell, 84, US singer
• February 23 - Alvino Rey, 95, US bandleader and guitarist
• March 4 - John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL
• March 6 - Peggy DeCastro, 82, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters
• March 18 - Vytas Brenner, 57,musician, keyboardist and composer
• March 26 - Jan Berry, US singer of Jan and Dean
• March 28 - Sylvia Froos, 89, US singer
• April 3 - Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer
• April 9 - Harry Babbitt, 90, US singer with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
• April 10 - Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
• May 1 - Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
• 12 May - John LaPorta, 84, Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator
• May 12 - John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead
• May 17 - Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz Drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
• May 19 - Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
• June 4 - Irene Manning, 91, US actress, singer and dancer
• June 6 - Iona Brown, 63, conductor and violinist
• June 10 - Ray Charles, 73, US singer and pianist
• June 15 - James F. Arnold, 72, first tenor with the Four Lads
• June 17 - Jackie Paris, US jazz singer
• July 13 - Carlos Kleiber, conductor
• July 21 - Jerry Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner
• July 22 - Illinois Jacquet, 81, US jazz saxophonist
• July 22 - Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
• August 6 - Rick James, 56, US funk singer
• August 6 - Argentino Ledesma, 75, Argentinian singer
• August 9 - Tony Mottola, 86, US Guitarist
• August 9 - David Raksin, 92, US composer
• August 18 - Elmer Bernstein, 82, US composer
• August 20 - María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban Rumbera
• August 26 - Laura Branigan, 47, US singer
• September 12 - Fred Ebb, 72, US lyricist
• September 15 - Johnny Ramone, 55, US Guitarist and founding member of The Ramones
• September 19 - Skeeter Davis, 72, US country singer
• October 25 - John Peel, 65, British DJ and broadcaster
• November 13 - John Balance, 42, British musician from Coil
• November 13 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, African American rapper
• November 18 - Cy Coleman, 75, US composer
• December 8 - Dimebag Darrell, 38, former Pantera guitarist, shot to death in Ohio
• December 13 - Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for The Nils
• December 14 - Sidonie Goossens, 102, harpist
• December 19 - Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano
• December 20 - Son Seals, 62, blues musician
• December 30 - Artie Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and Bandleader