Garth Hudson

**Eric Garth Hudson** CM (2 ga Agusta, 1937 - 21 ga Janairu, 2025) ɗan ƙasar Kanada ne mai amfani da kayan kida da yawa wanda aka fi sani da mai yin keyboard kuma wani lokacin yana yin saxophone don The Band . Shi babban mai tsara sautin ƙungiyar ne kuma mujallar *Keyboard* ta bayyana shi a matsayin "mafi hazaka a duniyar duwatsu"   . A shekarar 1994, an shigar da Hudson cikin Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a matsayin memba na The Band. Shi ne memba na ƙarshe da ya rage. 

Babban kayan kida na Hudson, wanda ya kware a fannin kiɗan Lowrey organ, sauran kayan kida na Hudson sune piano, accordion, keyboards na lantarki, da saxophones ( soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass ).  Ya kasance mawaƙin zaman da ake buƙata kuma ana girmama shi, yana yin wasa tare da mawaka da dama; Elton John ya ambaci shi a matsayin wanda ya yi tasiri a farkon wasan. 

## Tarihin Rayuwa

### Rayuwar farko
An haifi Hudson a Windsor, Ontario, Kanada, a ranar 2 ga Agusta, 1937.  Iyayensa, Fred James Hudson da Olive Louella Pentland, mawaka ne. Mahaifiyarsa ta buga piano da accordion kuma ta rera waƙa. Mahaifinsa, mai duba gona wanda ya yi yaƙi a matsayin matukin jirgin yaƙi a Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, ya buga ganguna, saxophone mai waƙar C, clarinet, sarewa da piano.  Hudson ya ƙaura tare da iyalinsa zuwa London, Ontario, a kusan 1940. Ya fara darasin piano tun yana ƙarami, Hudson ya kuma buga organ a cocinsa da ɗakin jana'izar kawunsa, kuma ya yi waƙoƙin ƙasa a kan accordion.  An horar da shi a fannin piano, ka'idar kiɗa, jituwa da kuma akasin haka, Hudson ya rubuta waƙarsa ta farko yana da shekaru 11 kuma ya fara yin wasa da ƙungiyar rawa a 1949, yana da shekaru 12. Ya halarci Makarantar Jama'a ta Broughdale da Makarantar Sakandare ta Medway kafin ya karanci kiɗa (musamman mawakan Bach da *The Well-Tempered Clavier* ) a Jami'ar Western Ontario . A wannan lokacin, ya ƙara jin haushi da taurin da ke cikin kundin waƙoƙin gargajiya, wanda hakan ya sa ya daina aiki bayan shekara guda.

A shekarar 1956, ya shiga ƙungiyar mawakan Landan Silhouettes. Ƙungiyar ta ƙaura zuwa yankin Windsor / Detroit inda aiki ya fi yawa. A can ne, a shekarar 1958, Silhouettes suka haɗu da abokin wasansu Paul "London" Hutchins suka zama Paul London da Capers. Hudson ya fi yin waƙar saxophone a cikin ƙungiyar, kuma ya buga piano a cikin salon da Johnnie Johnson ya yi wahayi zuwa gare shi, amma ya ga ƙungiyar Lowrey ta farko a wani wasan kwaikwayo a Detroit kuma ya ƙuduri aniyar cewa zai sami ɗaya. Ƙungiyar ta sami nasara mai matsakaici da aiki mai yawa, suna yin rikodin waƙoƙi kaɗan a Toronto a shekarar 1960, suna canza sunansu zuwa "...Kapers" tare da 'K', suna yin wasu waƙoƙi kaɗan a Chess Studios da ke Chicago. 

An fara tuntubar Hudson ta Ronnie Hawkins da Levon Helm a lokacin bazara na 1961, bayan wani wasan kwaikwayo na Kapers a Landan, kuma aka nemi ya shiga Hawks, amma ya ƙi tayin. Hawks sun dage, kuma a watan Disamba na 1961, Hudson ya yarda ya shiga ƙungiyar bisa sharuɗɗa biyu: cewa Hawkins ya saya masa ƙungiyar Lowrey, kuma kowanne daga cikin membobin ƙungiyar zai biya shi ƙarin dala $10 a mako don ya ba wa sauran Hawks darussan kiɗa. Wannan sharaɗi na biyu ya kasance wani ɓangare na komawarsa ga iyayensa, waɗanda yake jin tsoron zai yi tunanin yana ɓata shekarunsa na ilimin kiɗa ta hanyar yin wasa a ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta rock and roll. [1] Da yake tattaunawa game da tunanin da ke bayan fargabarsa ta farko a cikin The Last Waltz, Hudson ya shaida wa daraktan mai yin hira da Martin Scorsese : "Akwai ra'ayin cewa jazz 'mugunta' ne saboda ya fito ne daga miyagun mutane, amma a zahiri manyan firistoci a kan titin 52nd da kuma kan titunan birnin New York su ne mawaƙa. Suna yin babban aikin warkarwa. Sun san yadda za su buga kiɗan da zai warkar da mutane kuma ya sa su ji daɗi."

### Ƙungiyar Lowrey
Hudson yana ɗaya daga cikin 'yan wasan organ a cikin rock and roll da rhythm da blues da suka guji Hammond organ . Bayan shiga Hawks, Hudson ya yi amfani da damar don yin shawarwari kan siyan sabon organ Lowrey a matsayin wani ɓangare na diyyarsa. Lowrey organ ya ba da nau'ikan siffofi daban-daban, kuma Hudson ya buga ɗaya tare da Ronnie Hawkins da Hawks da kuma tare da Bob Dylan da Band, yana buga samfura uku daban-daban: asali na ventila Festival (FL), wanda aka maye gurbinsa da Lincolnwood TSO-25 a lokacin 1969, daga baya kuma har yanzu yana da ventila horseshoe model H25, kamar yadda aka nuna a cikin *The Last Waltz* . 

### Mutuwa
Hudson ya mutu yana barci a wani gidan kula da tsofaffi da ke Woodstock, New York, a ranar 21 ga Janairu, 2025, yana da shekaru 87.   Daga cikin dimbin yabo da aka yi masa, Bob Dylan ya rubuta, "Yi haƙuri da jin labarin Garth Hudson. Mutum ne mai kyau kuma ainihin mai tuƙi a bayan ƙungiyar mawaƙa..." 

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