LaMonte McLemore

David Clayton-Thomas, the Canadian vocalist who led Blood, Sweat & Tears through its most commercially successful and culturally influential era, has died in Toronto at the age of 84. His publicist Eric Alper confirmed he passed away peacefully in hospital on Wednesday. No cause of death was provided. Clayton-Thomas helped define the jazz-rock fusion era of the late 1960s with hits including “Spinning Wheel” and “You've Made Me So Very Happy.”

Influential American blues artist JOHN HAMMOND, whose six-decade career preserved and reinterpreted traditional blues for modern audiences, has died at the age of 83.