1969 in jazz


This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1969.

Events

The New England Conservatory becomes the first traditional music conservatory to offer a jazz studies course.

June

18

July

3 – The 16th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island.

August

18 – The 9th National Jazz and Blues Festival started in Plumpton, East Sussex, England.19 – Trumpeter Miles Davis uses a wah-wah pedal on Bitches Brew.

September

19 – The 12th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California.

Album releases

Deaths

; January4 – Paul Chambers, American bassist.19 – Alcide Pavageau, American upright bassist.
; February15 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinetist.17 – Paul Barbarin, New Orleans drummer.
; March25 – Billy Cotton, English bandleader.
; April23 – Krzysztof Komeda, Polish film music composer and jazz pianist .24 – René Compère, Belgian trumpeter.
; May19 – Coleman Hawkins, American tenor saxophonist.
; June1 – Stan Brenders, Belgian jazz pianist and bandleader.2 – Albert Stinson, American upright bassist.10 – Wilbur Harden, American trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer.14
; July14 – Ernie Farrow, American pianist, bassist, and drummer.
; August7 – Russ Morgan, American big band orchestra leader.14 – Tony Fruscella, American trumpeter.
; September9 – Cedric Haywood, American pianist.
; October10 – Manuel Manetta, American multi-instrumentalist.14 – Bill McKinney, American drummer.19 – Booker Pittman, American clarinetist.22 – Nate Kazebier, American trumpeter.29 – Pops Foster, American string bassist, who also played tuba and trumpet.30 – Tony Sbarbaro, American drummer.31 – Tony Pastor, Italian-American novelty singer and tenor saxophonist.
; November2 – Slick Jones, American drummer.14 – Johnny Bayersdorffer, New Orleans cornetist and bandleader.18 – Ted Heath, English trombonist and big-band leader.
; December9 – Bobby Henderson, American pianist and trumpeter.16 – Leo Mathisen, Danish pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader 26 – Jiří Šlitr, Czech songwriter, pianist, singer, actor, and painter.

Births

; January3 – James Carter, American saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist.24 – Duane Eubanks, American trumeter and flugelhornist.
; February1 – Joshua Redman, American saxophonist.6 – Scott Amendola, American drummer.7 – Chris Minh Doky, Danish bassist.14 – Stefano di Battista, Italian saxophonist.22 – Ståle Storløkken, Norwegian organist and keyboardist.
; March10 – Travis Shook, American pianist and songwriter.13 – Stephen Scott, American pianist.22 – Asaf Sirkis, Israeli drummer, composer, and educator.25 – Marcin Jahr, Polish drummer.29 – Jason Rebello, British pianist, songwriter, and record producer.
; April9 – Giovanni Allevi, Italian pianist and composer.23 – Trude Eick, Norwegian hornist.24 – Rebecca Martin, American singer and songwriter.29 – Thomas Winther Andersen, Norwegian bassist.30 – Michel Delville, Belgian guitarist, writer, and critic.
; May6 – Mathilde Grooss Viddal, Norwegian saxophonist.12 – Erlend Skomsvoll, Norwegian pianist, composer, and orchestra leader, Come Shine.22 – Carl Craig, American producer of techno music.23 – Mindi Abair, American saxophonist, vocalist, and author.
; June2 – Kate Michaels, American singer.11
; July4 – Carolyn Breuer, German saxophonist.7 – Svein Olav Herstad, Norwegian pianist.27 – Edward Simon, Venezuelan pianist and composer.
; August4 – Dylan Howe, English drummer, bandleader, session musician, and composer, The Blockheads.16 – Kate Higgins, American voice actress, singer, and pianist.25
; September14 – Denys Baptiste, British tenor and soprano saxophonist.16
; October1 – Ori Kaplan, Israeli avant-garde saxophonist.4 – Mat Maneri, American composer, improviser, and jazz violin and viola player7
; November25 – Kim Ofstad, Norwegian drummer, D'Sound.29 – Fredrik Ljungkvist, Swedish saxophonist and clarinetist, Atomic.
; December6 – Daniel Tinte, Argentinian pianist and composer.19 – Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Azerbaijani scat singer, pianist and composer. 31 – Joyce Cooling, American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.
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