2024 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2024.
Events
January
- January 27 – Domi and JD Beck tour in Singapore
February
- February 4 – The 2024 Grammy awards occur.
- *A new category, "Best Alternative Jazz Album" is added. The first winner is Meshell Ndegeocello for her 2023 album The Omnichord Real Book
- *"Best Jazz Instrumental Album" is awarded to Billy Childs for his 2023 album The Winds of Change
- *"Best Latin Jazz Album" is awarded to Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo for their 2023 album El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2
- *"Best Vocal Jazz Album" is awarded to Nicole Zuraitis for her 2023 album How Love Begins,
- *"Best Traditional Pop Vocal album is awarded to Laufey for her 2023 album “Bewitched,”
- *"Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album" is awarded to the Count Basie Orchestra for their 2023 album Basie Swings The Blues
- *"Best Jazz Performance" is awarded to Samara Joy for her song ''Tight''
July
- July 9 – Kamasi Washington starts his first ever UK tour, at a bar in Herne Hill, UK
October
- October 11–20 - Headliners at the Stockholm Jazz Festival include Bill Frisell, Julius Rodriguez, Sona Jobarteh, Gogo Penguin and The Headhunters.
All critically reviewed albums ranked
Metacritic| Number | Artist | Album | Average score | Number of reviews | Reference |
| 1 | Charles Lloyd | The Sky Will Be There Tomorrow | 95 | 6 | |
| 2 | Julian Lage | Speak to Me | 91 | 4 | |
| 3 | Arooj Aftab | Night Reign | 89 | 12 | |
| 4 | Blue Lab Beats | Blue Eclipse | 87 | 4 | |
| 5 | Vijay Iyer | Compassion | 86 | 6 | |
| 6 | Mary Halvorson | Cloudward | 84 | 8 | |
| 6 | Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento | Milton + Esperanza | 84 | 5 |
Deaths
- January 25 – Bruno Amstad, Swiss jazz singer, 59
- January 26
- * Dean Brown, American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician, 68
- * Michel Hausser, French jazz vibraphonist, 96
- January 29 – Tony Cedras, South African jazz musician, 71
- March 3 – Eleanor Collins, 104, Canadian jazz singer and TV host
- April 5 – Phil Nimmons, Canadian jazz clarinetist, 100
- April 7 – Joe Viera, German saxophonist and festival founder, 91
- May 7 – Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger, 88
- June 9 – Alex Riel, Danish jazz and rock drummer, 83
- August 3 – Shaun Martin, American jazz keyboardist from Snarky Puppy, 45
- August 23 – Russell Malone, American jazz guitarist, 60
- November 12 – Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer, 99