Garth Hudson, keyboardist and last surviving founding member of the Canadian-American rock group The Band, has died. Though cause of death has not been confirmed, the Toronto Star reports he died in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock,

Hudson’s keyboard was an essential element of the Band's sound on roots-rock classics such as 'The Weight' and 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.'

The last original member of the Band died this week at 87. In 2014, RS accompanied him on a visit to the upstate New York home where the group recorded The Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan

He was the last of The Band's five members—four Canadians and an Arkansas drummer—who turned popular music on its ear in 1968.

He was the last surviving original member of one of the most influential groups of the 1960s and ’70s, with its blend of rock, r&b and country.

The oldest and only classically trained member of The Band, Garth Hudson was best known for his distinctive Lowrey organ work on songs like "Chest Fever."

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band, died January 21 in his sleep in Woodstock, NY. He was 87.

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The Band's last living member, Garth Hudson, has died. He passed away Tuesday morning, while sleeping in a New York nursing home, outlets report. Hudson was 87 years old.

Hudson died early Tuesday in a nursing home near Woodstock, New York, his former manager, Jim Della Croce, confirmed to USA TODAY. Della Croce remembered the late musician as a "brilliant man" and the "glue that made The Band, The Band."

An architect of the Band’s genre-melding sound, he played piano on “The Weight” and organ on “Chest Fever.” He was the group’s last surviving member.

The last surviving member of the legendary "Up On Cripple Creek" group died in his sleep on Monday morning (Jan. 21).