Tom Dunne: In Paddy Cole and Garth Hudson, we've lost two giants 

The recent passing of the legendary Dublin saxophonist and The Band's keyboardist were a reminder of glorious musical eras on both sides of the Atlantic 

Irish saxophonist Paddy Cole, and Garth Hudson of The Band recently passed away.

Bit of a changing of the guard last week. Two giants of the music world checked out. Here, it was Castleblaney’s finest, the inestimable Paddy Cole. In the US, it was The Band’s Garth Hudson, a man who once graced the cover of Time magazine under the banner 'They Have Been to the Mountain'. They both had.

Coverage of Hudson’s death was particularly poignant. I saw it first on social media. There was some phone footage of an elderly man in a nursing home, grey haired and frail, a wrap over his shoulders against the cold.