musician July 31 – Lee Young, 94, American jazz drummer and singer August August 3 Erik Darling, 74, American folk musician Louis Teicher, 83, American pianist August 4 – Nicola Rescigno, 92, Italian American conductor August 5 Robert Hazard, 59, American songwriter Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music singer August 10 Isaac Hayes, 65, American rhythm and blues musician Alexander Slobodyanik, 66, Ukrainian pianist August 11 – Don Helms, 81, American steel guitarist August 12 – Donald Erb, 81, American composer August 14 – Lita Roza, 82, British singer August 15 – Jerry Wexler, 91, American producer August 16 Dorival Caymmi, 94, Brazilian singer-songwriter Ronnie Drew, 73, Irish folk musician (The Dubliners) Johnny Moore, 70, Jamaican trumpeter (The Skatalites) August 18 – Pervis Jackson, 70, American R&B singer (The Spinners) August 19 – LeRoi Moore, 46, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band) August 20 – Phil Guy, 68, American blues guitarist August 21 Jerry Finn, 39, American record producer Buddy Harman, 79, American session drummer August 25 – Pehr Henrik Nordgren, 64, Finnish composer August 31 – Jerry Reed, 71, American country musician September September 2 – Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz saxophonist September 6 – Nicole Lai, 34 (skin cancer), Singaporean singer September 7 Christian Dudek, 42, German drummer (Sodom) Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian singer, songwriter and music producer Peter Glossop, 80, British opera singer September 8 Bheki Mseleku, 53 (diabetes-related), jazz musician Jason Stuart, 39, British keyboardist (Hawkwind) Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and producer September 10 – Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor September 12 Marjorie Thomas, 85, British contralto Charlie Walker, 81, American country musician September 15 – Richard Wright, 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) September 16 Norman Whitfield, 68, American songwriter and producer Andrei Volkonsky, 75, Russian (émigré/defector) composer, conductor and harpsichordist September 18 Opal Courtney Jr, 71, American R&B/doo-wop singer (The Spaniels) Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine composer September 19 Earl Palmer, 84, American drummer, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Dick Sudhalter, 70, American jazz trumpeter and critic September 20 – Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer September 22 – Connie Haines, 87, American singer September 24 – Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer September 25 – Horațiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer September 26 Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano Yonty Solomon, 71, South African pianist October October 1 – Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician October 3 – Johnny