Musicians Who Died in September 2017

Sep 2 Dave Hlubek, American rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet), dies at 66
Sep 2 Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-American pianist, darabukha drummer, and composer (Martha Graham ballet scores), dies at 96

Walter Becker (1950-2017)

Sep 3 American rock bassist, guitarist, songwriter and record producer (Steely Dan - "Deacon Blues"; "Peg"), dies of esophageal cancer at 67

Sep 5 Holger Czukay [Holger Schüring], German musician (Can), dies at 79
Sep 6 Derek David Bourgeois, British composer, conductor and educator (National Youth Chamber Orchestra), dies of cancer at 75
Sep 7 John Maxwell Geddes, Scottish composer and pedagogue, dies at 76
Sep 8 Donald "Don" Williams, American country singer ("I Believe in You"), dies from emphysema at 78
Sep 11 Peter Hall, English stage, film and opera director (Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre director), dies at 86
Sep 12 Riem de Wolff, Indonesian-Dutch singer and guitarist (Blue Diamonds), dies at 74
Sep 12 Siegfried Köhler, German conductor, music director, and composer, dies at 94
Sep 13 Grant Hart, American punk rock drummer and songwriter (Hüsker Dü), dies of liver cancer at 56

Sep 15 American actor (Lucky; Alien; Cool Hand Luke; The Godfather Part II), musician, and singer, dies at 91

Sep 17 Laudir de Oliveira, Brazilian percussionist (Sérgio Mendes; Chicago, 1973-81), dies on stage in Rio de Janeiro, of a heart attack at 77
Sep 19 Billy Hatton, English rock bassist (The Fourmost - A Little Loving), dies at 76
Sep 23 Charles Bradley, American R&B and funk singer, known as 'The Screaming Eagle of Soul', dies of stomach cancer at 68
Sep 23 Tsisana Tatishvili, Georgian lyric-dramatic soprano, dies at 79
Sep 25 Folke Rabe, Swedish avant-garde composer (What??), dies at 81
Sep 27 Anne Jeffreys [Annie Carmichael], American singer and actress (Dick Tracy; Topper; General Hospital), dies at 94
Sep 27 Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist and Holocaust survivor, dies of pneumonia at 90
Sep 29 Dmitry Smolsky, Belarusian orchestral, choral, theater and pop music composer, and teacher (Belarusian State Academy of Music, 1962-2014), dies at 80
Sep 30 Alam Thomas "Tom" Paley, American folk musician (New Lost City Ramblers), dies at 89