- Mar 2 Jim Beard, American session and touring jazz-fusion keyboardist and composer (Pat Metheny, Steely Dan, The Brecker Brothers), dies at 63 [1]
- Mar 3 Eleanor Collins [Elnora Proctor], Canadian jazz and standards singer, and television personality, regarded as Canada’s “first lady of jazz”, dies at 104
- Mar 7 Margaret Tynes, American child prodigy and international opera singer, dies at 104
- Mar 7 Steve Lawrence [Sidney Leibowitz], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop singer ("Go Away Little Girl"; Steve and Eydie), and actor (The Lonely Guy; The Blues Brothers), dies of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 88
- Mar 10 Karl Wallinger, Welsh rocker and songwriter (The Waterboys, 1983-85; World Party - "Give It All Away"; "Ship Of Fools"), dies of a stroke at 66
- Mar 14 Byron Janis [né Yanks], American concert pianist (debut with NBC Symphony Orchestra at age 15), dies at 95 [1]
- Mar 17 Steve Harley, British pop and glam-rock singer-songwriter (Cockney Rebel - "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)"), dies of cancer at 73
- Mar 22 Jean-Paul Vignon, French actor and singer, dies of liver cancer at 89
- Mar 23 Maurizio Pollini, Italian classical pianist, dies at 82 [1]
- Mar 24 Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer ("Chinese Opera"), conductor, contemporary music advocate, and teacher, dies at 80
- Mar 30 Casey Benjamin, American R&B and hip-hop saxophonist, vocoder wizard, and songwriter (The Robert Glasper Experiment), dies at 45 [1]
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