Editing 1975 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 8]] – [[Richard Tucker]], operatic tenor, 61 (heart attack)
*[[January 11]] – [[Max Lorenz (tenor)|Max Lorenz]], Wagnerian tenor, 73
*[[January 16]] – [[Paul Beaver]], electronic jazz keyboardist, 49
*[[January 26]] – [[Toti Dal Monte]], operatic soprano, 81
*[[January 30]] – [[Boris Blacher]], composer, 72
*[[February 2]] – [[Eleanor French]], singer, 59<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/05/archives/eleanor-french-59-dies-cafe-singer-of-30s-and-40s.html?searchResultPosition=3|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Eleanor French, 59, Dies; Cafe Singer of 30's and 40's|date=February 5, 1975}}</ref>
*[[February 3]] – [[Umm Kulthum]], singer, songwriter and actress
*[[February 4]] – [[Louis Jordan]], jazz musician, 66
*[[February 10]] – [[Dave Alexander (musician)|Dave Alexander]], bassist ([[The Stooges]]), 27 (pulmonary edema)
*[[February 13]] – [[Eric Thiman]], English composer, 74
*[[February 16]]–- [[Norman Treigle]], operatic bass-baritone, 47
*[[February 19]] – [[Luigi Dallapiccola]], composer, 71
*[[February 22]] – [[Lionel Tertis]], viola player, 98
*[[March 3]] – [[Sandy MacPherson]], theatre organist, 78
*[[March 4]] – [[Cornel Chiriac]], Romanian record producer, broadcaster and jazz musician, 33 (murdered)
*[[March 14]] – [[Will Mastin]], American vaudevillian, 100
*[[March 15]] – [[Sandy Brown (musician)|Sandy Brown]], jazz musician, 46 (heart attack)
*[[March 16]] – [[T-Bone Walker]], African-American musician, 64
*[[March 27]] – Sir [[Arthur Bliss]], Master of the Queen's Musick, 83
*[[April 12]] – [[Josephine Baker]], African-American dancer, 68
*[[April 14]] – [[Michael Flanders]], lyricist, actor, humorist and singer ([[Flanders and Swann]]), 53 (intracranial berry aneurysm)
*[[April 21]] – Sir [[Jack Westrup]], musicologist, 70
*[[April 23]] – [[Pete Ham]], singer and songwriter ([[Badfinger]]), 27 ([[suicide]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Conchita Badía]], operatic soprano, 77
*[[May 13]] – [[Bob Wills]], American Western swing bandleader, 70
*[[May 18]] – [[Leroy Anderson]], American composer and conductor, 66
*[[June 4]] – [[Frida Leider]], operatic soprano, 87
*[[June 7]] – [[Robert Schmertz (artist)|Robert Schmertz]], American folk musician and architect, 77
*[[June 16]] – [[Don Robey]], songwriter and producer, 72
*[[June 21]] – [[David Tamkin]], composer, 68
*[[June 29]] – [[Tim Buckley]], singer-songwriter, 28 (drug overdose)
*[[July 5]] – [[Gilda Dalla Rizza]], operatic soprano, 82
*[[July 10]] – [[Ernst Fischer (composer)|Ernst Fischer]], composer, 75
*[[July 14]] – [[Zutty Singleton]], American jazz drummer, 77
*[[July 19]] – [[Lefty Frizzell]], [[Country Music Hall of Fame]] singer, 47 (stroke)
*[[August 8]] – [[Cannonball Adderley]], American saxophonist, 46
*[[August 9]] – [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], composer, 68 (heart attack)
*[[August 10]] – [[Neva Carr Glyn]], operatic contralto, 67
*September – [[Flora Perini]], operatic soprano, 87
*[[September 5]]
**[[Georg Ots]], Estonian opera singer, 55
**[[Bill Sprouse Jr.]], Christian singer and songwriter, 26 (heart attack)
*[[September 6]] – [[Shelton Brooks]], Canadian-born African American song composer, 89
*[[September 20]] – [[Vincent Lopez]], American bandleader, 79
*[[October 1]] – [[Al Jackson, Jr.]], R&B drummer, 39 (shot)
*[[October 19]] – [[Cátulo Castillo]], tango composer, 69
*[[October 28]] – [[Oliver Nelson]], jazz saxophonist, 43
*[[October 30]] – John Scott Trotter, U.S. arranger and conductor
*[[December 8]] – [[Gary Thain]], rock bassist, 27 (heroin overdose)
*[[December 14]] – [[Mongezi Feza]], jazz trumpeter and flautist, 30 (pneumonia)
*[[December 17]]
**<!--December 17-->[[Noble Sissle]], U.S. bandleader and singer, 86
**<!--December 17-->[[Hound Dog Taylor]], blues musician, 60
*[[December 24]]
**<!--December 24-->[[Great Mull Air Mystery|Peter Gibbs]], violinist
**<!--December 24-->[[Bernard Herrmann]], composer, 64
**<!--December 24-->[[Tilly Losch]], dancer and actress, 72
*[[December 25]] – [[Julio Cueva]], trumpeter, bandleader and composer, 78