17 – Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British musicologist and composer May 21 – Siegmund Nissel, 86, Austrian violinist May 23 – Utah Phillips, 73 (heart disease), American folk singer-songwriter May 24 – Jimmy McGriff, 72 (multiple sclerosis), American jazz organist May 25 – Camu Tao, 30 (lung cancer), rapper May 26 – Earle Hagen, 88, American composer May 28 – Danny Moss, 80, British jazz saxophonist May 30 Campbell Burnap, 68 (cancer), British jazz trombonist and broadcaster Nat Temple, 94, British big band leader June June 1 – Al Jones, 62, British folk musician June 2 – Bo Diddley, 79 (heart failure), American rock and roll and blues singer, songwriter and guitarist June 4 – Bill Finegan, 91, American jazz pianist and arranger June 8 – Šaban Bajramović, 72 (heart attack), Serbian Romani musician June 12 – Danny Davis, 83 (heart attack), American band leader June 14 Jamelão, 95 (multiple organ failure), Brazilian samba singer Esbjörn Svensson, 44, Swedish jazz pianist (Scuba diving accident) June 16 – Margaret Kitchin, 94, Swiss pianist June 17 – Cyd Charisse, 86 (heart attack), American dancer and actress June 24 – Ira Tucker, 83 (cardiovascular disease), American gospel singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds) June 27 Raymond Lefèvre, 78, French easy listening musician Daihachi Oguchi, 84 (car accident), Japanese drummer Leonard Pennario, 83 (Parkinson's disease), American pianist June 30 – Ángel Tavira, 83 (kidney complications), Mexican violinist and composer July July 1 – Mel Galley, 60 (esophagus cancer), British guitarist (Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers and Phenomena) July 2 – Natasha Shneider, 52 (cancer), Russian keyboardist and vocalist July 3 Harald Heide-Steen Jr., 68 (lung cancer), Norwegian actor, comedian and jazz singer Oliver Schroer, 52 (leukemia), Canadian fiddler and composer July 6 – Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer July 7 – Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer July 13 – Gerald Wiggins, 86, American jazz pianist July 16 – Jo Stafford, 90 (congestive heart failure), American singer July 18 Tauno Marttinen, 95, Finnish composer Dennis Townhill, 83, British organist and composer July 20 – Artie Traum, 65, American folk musician and composer July 22 – Joe Beck, 62 (lung cancer), American jazz guitarist July 24 – Norman Dello Joio, 95, American composer July 25 Hiram Bullock, 52 (throat cancer), American jazz fusion guitarist Johnny Griffin, 80 (heart attack), American jazz saxophonist July 27 – Horst Stein, 80, German conductor July 28 – Wendo Kolosoy, 83, Congolese rumba