1999 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1999.

Events

March

26 – The 26th Vossajazz started in Vossavangen, Norway.

May

13 – The 27th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway.21 – The 28th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany.

Unknown date

"Don't Know Why" by Jesse Harris appears on his 1999 album, Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos.
The Magic City Jazz Orchestra American jazz ensemble is founded.
The Pulitzer Prize Board bestows a special posthumous honor on Duke Ellington.
WEAA is named 1999 Jazz Station of the Year by Gavin magazine.
Atomic, Norwegian / Swedish jazz band formed.
Radioactive Sago Project, a Filipino jazz rock band formed in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
III Records, a record label based in Japan is founded.
Zoe Rahman, British jazz composer and pianist, won the "Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year" Award.

Album releases

With Wikipedia articles

1999 Remixes, the third compilation album released by British acid jazz band JamiroquaiApril Kisses, by Bucky PizzarelliContemporary Jazz, by the Branford Marsalis QuartetContinuance, by jazz fusion band Greetings From Mercury, recorded live at Vooruit, Ghent, BelgiumLive at the Floating Jazz Festival, from the 1997 jazz festival of the same name by violinist Johnny Frigo and his quartet.Peculiar Situation, a smooth jazz studio album by Earl KlughSynergy, studio album by jazz-fusion group Dave Weckl BandTime's Mirror, big band album by jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger, Tom HarrellWithout Kuryokhin, American jazz multi-instrumentalist Kenny Millions and Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide.Barefoot on the Beach, by American smooth jazz vocalist Michael Franks.

Other

Jane Ira Bloom: The Red Quartets
Steve Coleman: The Sonic Language of Myth – Believing Learning Knowing
Marty Ehrlich: Malinke's Dance
Bill Dixon: Papyrus I
Guillermo Gregorio: Red Cubed
Paul Dunmall: Bebop Starburst
Matthew Shipp: Expansion, Power, Release
Misha Mengelberg: Solo
Marilyn Crispell: ⋅Red
Marilyn Crispell: Blue
Evan Parker: After Appleby
Joshua Redman: Beyond
Maybe Monday: Saturn's Finger
Richard Lee Johnson: ''Fingertip Ship''

Deaths

; January6 – Michel Petrucciani, French pianist and composer.7 – Fred Hopkins, American upright bassist.
; February1 – Julius Wechter, American vibraphonist and composer.5 – Colin Purbrook, English pianist, upright bassist, and trumpeter.6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer.8 – Richard B. Boone, American jazz musician, trombonist, and vocalist.7 – Bobby Troup, American pianist and songwriter.11 – Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone.16 – Betty Roché, American singer.19

* Lauderic Caton, Trinidadian guitarist.
* Trudy Desmond, Canadian singer.27 – Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer.

; March3 – John Roache, American pianist and composer of Ragtime.4 – Teddy McRae, American tenor saxophonist and arranger.12 – Yehudi Menuhin, Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor.22 – Rick Fay, American clarinetist and saxophonist.29 – Joe Williams, American vocalist.
; April1 – Jesse Stone, American pianist and songwriter.3 – Herman Foster, American pianist.6 – Red Norvo, American vibraphonist.21 – Charles Rogers, American film actor and musician.23 – Melba Liston, American trombonist, composer, and musical arranger.27 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader.
; May8 – Leon Thomas, American avant-garde jazz singer.18 – Freddy Randall, English jazz trumpeter and bandleader.19 – Candy Candido, American bassist and vocalist.
;June2 – Andy Simpkins, American bassist.5

* Ernie Wilkins, American tenor saxophonist.
* Mel Tormé, American singer.8 – Rosy McHargue, American clarinetist.15 – Fausto Papetti, Italian alto saxophonist.

; July9 – Talib Dawud, American trumpeter.11 – Helen Forrest, American singer.22 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer.27 – Sweets Edison, American trumpeter.
; August3 – Leroy Vinnegar, American bassist.24 – Warren Covington, American trombonist.25 – Spiegle Willcox, American trombonist.
; September6 – Arnold Fishkind, American bassist.8 – Moondog, American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor.30 – Anna Mae Winburn, African-American vocalist and bandleader.
; October2 – Sal Salvador, American bebop jazz guitarist and a prominent music educator.4 – Art Farmer, American trumpeter and flugelhorn player.8 – Manfredo Fest, Brazilian pianist and keyboardist.9 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphonist.18 – Tony Crombie, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader, and composer.21 – LaMont Johnson, American pianist who played in the hard bop and post-bop genres.31 – Wyatt Ruther, American upright bassist.
; November8 – Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer.13

* John Benson Brooks, American jazz pianist, songwriter, arranger, and composer.
* Donald Mills, American singer, The Mills Brothers.26
* Clifford Jarvis, American hard bop and free jazz drummer.
* Henry Nemo, American musician, songwriter, and actor.30 – Don "Sugarcane" Harris, American violinist.

; December2 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist.4 – Edward Vesala, Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer.7 – Kenny Baker, English trumpeter, cornetist, flugelhornist, and composer.11 – Charles Earland, American jazz composer, organist and saxophonist in the soul jazz idiom.14 – Walt Levinsky, American big band and orchestral player, composer, arranger, and band leader.17 – Grover Washington Jr., American saxophonist.26 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer and songwriter.28 – Terry Rosen, American guitarist, concert promoter and radio DJ.30 – Sam Ranelli, American drummer.

Births

; October3 – Tom Ibarra, French guitarist and composer.