1961 in jazz

none 1961 post-1950 1960 1962 1961 jazz This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1961. Events June 25 – The Bill Evans Trio records Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby during a two-week stay at The Village Vanguard in New York. The recording was made from five sets they played on June 25 and was the last time the trio would play before virtuoso bassist Scott LaFaro's death 10 days later. 30 – The 7th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (June 30 – July 3).http://www.rirocks.net/Band%20Articles/Newport%20Jazz%20Festival%201961.htm Newport Jazz Festival 1961 Poster Rirocks.net 2016-05-03 August 4 – The very first Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (August 4 – 6).http://www.rbnett.no/kultur/article9530215.ece 1961 – Den første festivalen Norwegian Romsdals Budstikke 2016-05-03 November 1 – John Coltrane begins recording his first live record Live! at the Village Vanguard. Unknown dates Bengali Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar and western jazz musicians Gary Peacock and Bud Shank collaborate on the album Improvisations. The album combines the use of sitar and jazz music and is considered an early example of fusion experiments with jazz and Indian classical music. In early 1961 John Coltrane begins listening to North Indian music and the music of Shankar becomes influential in his development as a musician. John Coltrane sells an estimated 30,000 copies of My Favorite Things in its first year of release. Album releases Basie at Birdland – Count Basie Orchestra (Roulette) A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March – Art Blakey (Movieplay) Mosaic – Art Blakey (Blue Note) Time Further Out – The Dave Brubeck Quartet (Columbia) Con Alma – Ray Bryant (Columbia) Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation – Ornette Coleman (Atlantic) Coltrane Jazz – John Coltrane (Atlantic) Olé Coltrane – John Coltrane (Atlantic) My Favorite Things – John Coltrane (Atlantic) Whistle Stop – Kenny Dorham (Blue Note) American Freedom – Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong (Blue Note) Out of the Cool – Gil Evans Orchestra (Impulse!) Focus – Stan Getz (Verve) 1961 – Jimmy Giuffre 3 (ECM) Eastern Sounds – Yusef Lateef (Moodsville) Out Front – Booker Little (Candid) Kenton's West Side Story – Stan Kenton (Capitol) – Grammy winning album Mingus – Charles Mingus (Candid Records) Oh Yeah – Charles Mingus (Atlantic Records) All the Sad Young Men (album) – Anita O'Day (Verve) The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra – Sun Ra and his Arkestra (Savoy Records) We Are In the Future – Sun Ra and his Arkestra (Savoy Records) We Travel the Spaceways – Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra Secrets of the Sun – by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra (El Saturn Records) Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy – Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra Bad and Beautiful – Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra (El Saturn Records, Impulse!) Fate in a Pleasant Mood – Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra (El Saturn Records, Impulse!) Percussion Bitter Sweet – Max Roach (Impulse!) Forbidden Fruit – Nina Simone (Colpix) Standards List of post-1950 jazz standards Deaths February 4 – Alphonse Picou, American clarinetist and composer (born 1878). 7 – Noah Lewis, American harmonica player (born 1891). 22 – Nick LaRocca, New Orleans cornetist and trumpeter (born 1889). March 6 – George Formby, English actor, singer-songwriter, and comedian (born 1904). 9 – Wilber Sweatman, American clarinetist (born 1882). 24 – Freddy Johnson, American pianist and singer (born 1904). April 29 – Miff Mole, American trombonist and bandleader (born 1898). July 6 – Scott LaFaro, American upright bassist (born 1936). August 15 – Stick McGhee, American guitarist (born 1918). October 5 – Booker Little American trumpeter and composer (born 1938). Unknown date Cuba Austin, American drummer (born 1906). Births January 12 – Ivo Perelman, Brazilian saxophonist. 16 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian composer and guitarist (died 2006). 18 – Bobby Broom, American guitarist, composer, and educator. February 5 – Clark Tracey, British drummer, band leader, and composer. 9 – Steve Wilson, American saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. 10 – Paolo Fresu, Italian trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger. 12 – Knut Reiersrud, Norwegian guitarist. 21 – Mike Nielsen, Irish guitarist, composer, and educator. March 2 – Harald Dahlstrøm, Norwegian pianist. 5 – Marcelo Peralta, Argentine saxophones, piano, accordion, the Latin American aerophones, and composer. 14 – Joe Ascione, American drummer (died 2016). 23 – Eivind Aarset, Norwegian guitarist. 25 – Makoto Ozone, Japanese pianist. 27 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist, producer, arranger, composer, singer and songwriter. 29 – Ken Stubbs, English alto saxophonist, and composer.https://www.allaboutjazz.com/birthdays/ Jazz Musicians Born On March 29 All About Jazz 2018-04-14 30 – Tina May, English singer. 31 – Mark Lockheart, British tenor saxophonist, Loose Tubes. April 9 – Chris Abrahams, New Zealand pianist and composer. 23 – Gene Calderazzo, American drummer. 25 Carl Allen, American drummer. Paul Wagnberg, Swedish–Norwegian organist and keyboarder. 30 – Alan Steward, Dutch record producer and multi-instrumentalist.https://www.allaboutjazz.com/birthdays/ Jazz Musicians Born On April 30 All About Jazz 2018-03-30 May 5 – Flavio Boltro, Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist. 11 – Brian Simpson, American pianist. 17 – Enya, Irish singer-songwriter. 21 – Rachelle Ferrell, American vocalist. 24 – Jarmo Savolainen, Finnish pianist and composer (died 2009). 27 - Ivan Božičević, Croatian composer, pianist, and organist. June 4 – El DeBarge, American singer-songwriter. 10 – Gary Thomas, American saxophonist. 15 Kai Eckhardt, German bass guitarist. Miguel "Angá" Díaz, Cuban percussionist (died 2006). 18 – Alison Moyet, British singer-songwriter. 24 – Marvin Smith, American drummer and composer. July 7 – Leon Bosch, South African upright bassist. 8 – Karl Seglem, Norwegian saxophonist and goat horn player. 26 – Keiko Matsui, Japanese pianist and composer. 29 – Michael Publig, Austrian pianist and composer. August 3 – Art Porter Jr., American saxophonist (died 1996). 13 – Koji Kondo, Japanese composer, pianist, and sound director. 17 – Everette Harp, American saxophonist. 23 – Anita Wardell, English singer. September 1 – Boney James, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer. 7 – LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band) (died 2008).https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dave-matthews-band-saxophonist-leroi-moore-dead-at-46-20080819 Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist LeRoi Moore Dead at 46 Daniel Kreps The Rolling Stone 2008-08-19 2016-02-27 22 – Kofi Burbridge, American keyboardist and flautist, Tedeschi Trucks Band (died 2019).https://jambands.com/news/2019/02/16/in-memoriam-kofi-burbridge-1961-2019 In Memoriam: Kofi Burbridge, 1961–2019 Jambands.com 2019-02-16 2019-02-19 29 – David Kikoski, American pianist. October 10 – Jonathan Butler, South African singer-songwriter and guitarist. 11 – Xavier Desandre Navarre, French percussionist and drummer. 18 – Bo Sundström, Swedish singer and songwriter, Bo Kaspers orkester. 18 – Wynton Marsalis, American trumpeter. 20 Audun Kleive, Norwegian drummer. David Becker, American guitarist. 25 – Franck Amsallem, French-American pianist, arranger, composer, and singer. 27 – Igor Butman, Russian saxophonist. November 13 – Candye Kane, American singer and entertainer (pancreatic cancer) (died 2016).http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-candye-kane-20160510-story.html Candye Kane dies at 54; performer sang of self-acceptance even while battling cancer Varga George Los Angeles Times 2016-05-09 2016-12-05 19 – Mornington Lockett, English saxophonist. December 5 – Anders Bergcrantz, Swedish trumpeter. 24 – Ralph Bowen, Canadian saxophonist. 29 – Lê Quan Ninh, French percussionist. Unknown date Paul Hanmer, South African composer and pianist. Awards Grammy Awards of 1961 Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group André Previn for West Side Story Best Jazz Performance Large Group Henry Mancini for Blues and the Beat Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration Gil Evans & Miles Davis for Sketches of Spain Music criticism Dan Morgenstern, Jazz Journal (1958–1961), Metronome (1961) See also 1960s Jazz 1960s in jazz List of years in jazz 1961 in music References Bibliography Ratliff Ben Ben Ratliff Coltrane: The Story of a Sound https://archive.org/details/coltranestoryofs0000ratl registration Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007 New York 978-0-374-12606-3 The New Real Book, Volume I 1988 Sher Music 0-9614701-4-3 refTheNewRealBookVol1 The New Real Book, Volume II 1991 Sher Music 0-9614701-7-8 refTheNewRealBookVol2 The New Real Book, Volume III 1995 Sher Music 1-883217-30-X refTheNewRealBookVol3 The Real Book, Volume I 6th 2004 Hal Leonard 0-634-06038-4 refTheRealBookVol1 The Real Book, Volume II 2nd 2007 Hal Leonard 978-1-4234-2452-9 refTheRealBookVol2 The Real Book, Volume III 2nd 2006 Hal Leonard 0-634-06136-4 refTheRealBookVol3 The Real Jazz Book Warner Bros 978-91-85041-36-7 refTheRealJazzBook The Real Vocal Book, Volume I 2006 Hal Leonard 0-634-06080-5 refTheRealVocalBookVol1 External links History Of Jazz Timeline: 1961 at All About Jazz Jazz Category:Jazz by year