Garth Hudson, the genius multi-instrumentalist of The Band, passed away Tuesday at the age of 87. He was the last of five band members—four Canadians and an Arkansas drummer—who turned popular ...

Every album contained a song that demonstrated Hudson’s great gifts: “Up On Cripple Creek,” with its twanging, wah-wah-infused clavinet, on “The Band”; “Daniel and the Sacred Harp,” boasting an ...

Hudson, who played keyboard, organ, clavinet, saxophone, accordion, woodwinds and brass for the Band, began his tenure with the group when he, Danko, Manuel and Robertson served as Ronnie Hawkins ...

No matter the song, Hudson summoned just the right feeling or shading, whether the tipsy clavinet and wah-wah pedal on "Up on Cripple Creek," the galloping piano on "Rag Mama Rag" or the melancholy ...