Accomplished jazz musician Freddie Hubbard died Monday at California's Sherman Oaks Hospital. The master trumpeter succumbed from complications that stemmed from the heart attack he suffered on November 26. He was 70.

Hubbard dazzled audiences and critics alike as a sideman for the likes of Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Art Blakey, and later as a band leader in his own right. He attracted attention in the 1960s for his superlative work as a member of the Jazz Messengers, the valuable training ground for young musicians led by drummer Blakey.

Delaney Bramlett -- a friend and musical colleague of rock giants including George Harrison and Eric Clapton -- died Saturday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result of complications from gallbladder surgery. The singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer was 69.

Bramlett co-wrote the classic-rock staple 'Let It Rain' with Clapton and co-penned 'Superstar' with Leon Russell. The latter song was also recorded by Joe Cocker, the Carpenters and, more recently, Usher.

Bramlett produced Clapton's eponymous 1970 solo debut, and performed with many of rock's elite, including John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Steve Cropper, Jimi Hendrix and Cocker. Bramlett also co-fronted the group Delaney & Bonnie and Friends with his then-wife Bonnie Bramlett from the late '60s through the early '70s.

Born in Mississippi in 1939, Bramlett moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s and wound up playing in the house band for the music-themed TV show 'Shindig.' His most recent album, 'A New Kind of Blues,' was released in Nov. 2007.

Davy Graham, whose nimble guitar playing inspired scores of fellow folk musicians, has died in London, succumbing to complication brought about by lung cancer. The guitar virtuoso, whose teeming influence on oither players and songwriters greatly outshone his commercial success, was 68.

One of the mainstays of the British folk movement of the 1960s, Graham's prowess and eclecticism on the acoustic guitar made him a focal and listening point for anyone plying their trade in the folk vein, including Paul Simon, who recorded a version of Graham's 1962 composition 'Anji' with Simon & Garfunkel. Unlike the majority of his Brit-folk peers, Graham looked outside the British Isles for musical influences, incorporating classical, jazz, blues and Eastern sounds into his playing.

Read a further account of this folk legend's life and music here.

Odetta, whose folk singing served as a clarion call to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s, died of heart failure in New York on Dec. 2, according to her manager. The 77-year-old, born as Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Ala., had been hospitalized for kidney failure earlier in the year.

Her booming, classically trained voice laid over her gentle acoustic guitar playing was a mainstay of the protest folk movement, culminating with her performance at the March on Washington in 1963. Her precise musicianship and principled stances were a strong influence on folk luminaries that include Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

Odetta, who in 1999 was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton, was scheduled to perform at the inauguration of Barack Obama on Jan. 20. Read more about her life and times here.

Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards, who mysteriously disappeared more than 13 years ago, has been pronounced legally dead by a British court, according to a band spokeswoman. Edwards' parents had petitioned the court to hand down a ruling about their son's official status in a quest for closure.

The troubled Welsh musician's vanishing act has been considered by many to have been the result of a suicide, but his bandmates have consistently held out hope for his return. Edwards, aka Richey James, whose car was discovered abandoned near the Severn Bridge, which connects England with Wales, has been the rumor of several Elvis-like sightings in the past few years.

Read more details about this development on Edwards here.

Jody Reynolds, whose tragic musical tale of a suicidal lover, 'Endless Sleep,' kick-started the "death rock" craze of the late '50s and early '60s, had died in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 75 years old.

In 'Endless Sleep,' an appropriately dirgelike rockabilly ballad written by Reynolds, the singer's girlfriend attempts to drown herself in the ocean after a quarrel. At the song's conclusion, our hero rescues his distraught lady from "an angry sea." Later songs in the teen tragedy genre, such as Mark Dinning's 'Teen Angel,' Ray Peterson's 'Tell Laura I Love Her' and the Shangri-Las' 'Leader of the Pack' felt no such need, happily killing off its protagonists.

The song, which peaked at No. 5 in 1958, was the only hit for the Denver native, who grew up in Oklahoma and Arizona before relocating to California, where he based his career. Reynolds was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1999.

Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, has been found dead in a hotel room in Portland, Ore. Mitchell, 62, was in Portland performing as a member of the Experience Hendrix tour.

The jazz-influenced drummer was born John Mitchell in Ealing, England, playing with Hendrix and bassist Noel Redding, who died in 2003, in the legendary rock trio from 1966 through 1969. After the trio disbanded, Mitchell was involved in several post-Experience projects with the innovative guitarist in 1970, the year of Hendrix's death.

Read more details on Mitchell's death here.

Miriam Makeba, who emerged from the repressive apartheid system of her native South Africa to become an international sensation, has died in Italy. The folk-jazz vocalist reportedly succumbed to a heart attack that occurred immediately following a performance at an anti-Mafia concert held outside Naples. She was 76 years old.

Born in Johannesburg, the Grammy Award-winning singer nicknamed Mama Africa was best known for her song "Pata Pata," sung in the Xhosa language, which reached No. 12 on the Billboard singles chart in 1967. Her husbands included trumpeter Hugh Masekela, a fellow countryman, as well as African-American activist Stokely Carmichael.

Jimmy Carl Black -- drummer for Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention -- passed away on Saturday, November 1. Black was known as "the Indian of the group" when he proclaimed the satirical nickname on the Mothers of Invention's famed album, 1968's 'We're Only in It for the Money.' He was 70.

Black, a Texas native, moved to California in the mid-'60s, where his amateur band, the Soul Giants, drafted Frank Zappa as a replacement for their original guitarist. Before long, Zappa took charge and changed the band's name to Mothers of Invention. Playing drums under this moniker, and under Zappa's direction, Black shared the stage with legends from the era including Jimmy Hendrix, the Doors, Cream, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and countless others.

Frank Navetta, co-founder and original guitarist with the influential punk-pop group the Descendents, died Friday. Navetta played guitar with the band during its first six years, writing and performing on the band's 1979 debut single 'Ride the Wild/It's A Hectic World,' the 1981 EP 'Fat,' 1982's classic 'Milo Goes to College' and parts of 1985's 'I Don't Want to Grow Up.'

"We're very sorry to announce that founding member of the Descendents, and close friend Frank Navetta passed away on October 31, 2008 after becoming ill over the course of a few days," reads an announcement on the band's official website. "This is obviously a huge loss for the Descendents family. His contribution to the band, and to music in general can not be overstated. Frank will be truly missed. We will share information about memorial services when we find out."

Navetta, drummer Bill Stevenson and bassist Tony Lombardo formed the band, with vocalist Milo Aukerman joining on in 1981. Before exiting the band in 1985 and moving to Oregon to become a fisherman, Navetta penned such early Descendents favorites as 'My Dad Sucks,' 'Parents,' 'Statue of Liberty' and 'Marriage.'