2025 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2025.
Events
- January 29 – February 1 – The Bodø Jazz Open takes place in Norway, featuring Solveig Slettahjell, Arve Henriksen. Rebekka Bakken and others.
Deaths
- January 12 – Mark Izu, American double bass player and composer, 70
- January 14 – Teddy Osei, Ghanaian saxophone player, drummer and vocalist, leader of Osibisa, 87
- March 4 – Roy Ayers, American jazz-funk vibraphonist, record producer, and composer, 84
- March 8 – Bill Ashton, British saxophonist, band leader and composer, 88
- March 14 – Bruno Romani, Italian saxophonist, flutist and composer, 65
- April 1 – George Freeman, American guitarist, 97
- April 22 – Odd Magne Gridseth, Norwegian bassist, 65
- April 26 – Andy Bey, American singer and pianist, 85
- May 12 – Yasunao Tone, Japanese jazz composer, 90
- May 23 – Lillian Boutté, American jazz singer, 75
- May 25 – Joe Ford, American jazz saxophonist, 78
- May 28 – Al Foster, American jazz drummer, 82
- June 13 – Louis Moholo, South African jazz drummer, 85
- June 17 – Charles Burrell, American bassist, 104
- July 22 – Chuck Mangione, American flugelhornist, trumpeter and composer, 84
- July 24 – Cleo Laine, English jazz singer, 97
- August 5 – Nancy King, American jazz singer, 85
- August 6 – Eddie Palmieri, American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, 88
- August 11 – Sheila Jordan, American jazz singer, 96
- September 13 – Akiko Tsuruga, Japanese jazz organist, 58
- September 26 – Jim McNeely, American jazz pianist and composer, 76
- October 26 – Jack DeJohnette, American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer, 83