Sax Player For Dave Matthews Band Is Dead

By Joseph Galante

LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died yesterday afternoon of complications from an accident in June. Moore, born in 1961, died unexpectedly at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, the band said in a statement on its Web site. Moore was in an accident involving an all terrain vehicle at his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia, and was living in his Los Angeles home to begin a physical rehabilitation program, according to the statement.

Our prayers and condolences go out to his family, friends and band mates. R.I.P