1969 in jazz

none 1969 1969 National Jazz & Blues Festival01.JPG National Jazz & Blues Festival, Plumpton, August 1969 post-1950 1968 1970 1969 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.https://necmusic.edu/timeline/1969 1969 New England Conservatory 11 February 2020 June 18 The 3rd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 18 – 22).http://www.setlist.fm/festival/1969/montreux-jazz-festival-1969-4bd6b312.html Montreux Jazz Festival 1969 Setlists Setlist.fm 2016-05-03 July 3 – The 16th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 3 – 6).http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4219/1969-newport-jazz-festival-poster Newport Jazz Festival 1969 Poster 10 July 2013 Fontsinuse.com 2016-05-03 The 1st day featured Sun Ra and Space Arkestra, Bill Evans / Jeremy Steig, and George Benson The 2nd day featured Jeff Beck Group, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull (Recorded) The 3rd day featured Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, John Mayall, and Miles Davis Quintet (Recorded) The 4th day featured Sly & The Family Stone, O.C. Smith, and Dave Brubeck.http://www.rirocks.net/Band%20Articles/Newport%20Jazz%20Festival%201969.htm Newport Jazz Festival 1969 Poster Rirocks.net 2016-05-03 August 18 – The 9th National Jazz and Blues Festival started in Plumpton, East Sussex, England (August 8 – 10).http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/plumpton-festival-1969.html The Ninth National Jazz and Blues Festival. UKRockFestivals.com 2016-05-10 19 – Trumpeter Miles Davis uses a wah-wah pedal on Bitches Brew (August 19 – 21).Shepherd John 2003 Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and Production 2 Continuum International Publishing Group 175 0-8264-6322-3 September 19 – The 12th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 19 – 21).https://books.google.com/books?id=j0r0AwAAQBAJ&q=Monterey+Jazz+Festival+1969+poster&pg=PA140 The Monterey Jazz Festival 19769 Poster 17 November 2012 Google.no 9781610586825 2016-05-03 Album releases 30em Bill Evans: Quiet Now Don Cherry: Mu Pharoah Sanders: Karma Miles Davis: In a Silent Way Art Ensemble of Chicago: People in Sorrow George Russell: Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature Art Ensemble of Chicago: Reese and the Smooth Ones Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Humility in the Light of the Creator Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra Dollar Brand: African Piano Gunter Hampel: The 8th of July 1969 Roland Kirk: Rahsaan Rahsaan Pharoah Sanders: Jewels of Thought Archie Shepp: Yasmina, a Black Woman Art Ensemble of Chicago: A Jackson In Your House Charles Tolliver: The Ringer Joe McPhee: Underground Railroad Jan Garbarek: Esoteric CircleMusic and Mysticism Harwood Academic Publishers 1996 90 Ornette Coleman: Crisis Pharoah Sanders: Izipho Zam (My Gifts) Sunny Murray: Homage to Africa Chick Corea: Is Dewey Redman: Tarik Willem Breuker: Lunchconcert For Three Barrel-organs Joe Harriott: Hum-Dono Peter Brötzmann: Nipples Charles Earland: Black Talk! Wolfgang Dauner: Fuer Eric Kloss: To Hear Is To See! Leon Thomas: Spirits Known and Unknown Miroslav Vitous: Mountain in the Clouds Tony Williams: Emergency! Archie Shepp: Blasé Dollar Brand: African Sketchbook John McLaughlin: Extrapolation Wayne Shorter: Super Nova Stanley Cowell: Blues for the Viet Cong Stanley Cowell: Brilliant Circles Wolfgang Dauner: The Oimels Horace Tapscott: West Coast Hot Liberation Music Orchestra: Liberation Music Orchestra Deaths January 4 – Paul Chambers, American bassist (born 1935). 19 – Alcide Pavageau, American upright bassist (born 1888). February 15 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinetist (born 1906). 17 – Paul Barbarin, New Orleans drummer (born 1899). March 25 – Billy Cotton, English bandleader (born 1899). April 23 – Krzysztof Komeda, Polish film music composer and jazz pianist (haematoma) (born 1931). 24 – René Compère, Belgian trumpeter (born 1906).http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J098300 René Compère OxfordIndex.oup.com 2003 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J098300 2018-04-01 Pernet Robert 2018-04-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20180402040903/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J098300 dead May 19 – Coleman Hawkins, American tenor saxophonist (born 1904). June 1 – Stan Brenders, Belgian jazz pianist and bandleader (born 1904). 2 – Albert Stinson, American upright bassist (born 1944). 10 – Wilbur Harden, American trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer (born 1924). 14 Roberto Firpo, Argentine tango pianist (born 1884). Wynonie Harris, American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer (born 1915). July 14 – Ernie Farrow, American pianist, bassist, and drummer (born 1928). August 7 – Russ Morgan, American big band orchestra leader (born 1904). 14 – Tony Fruscella, American trumpeter (born 1927). September 9 – Cedric Haywood, American pianist (born 1914). October 10 – Manuel Manetta, American multi-instrumentalist (born 1889). 14 – Bill McKinney, American drummer (born 1895). 19 – Booker Pittman, American clarinetist (born 1909). 22 – Nate Kazebier, American trumpeter (born 1912). 29 – Pops Foster, American string bassist, who also played tuba and trumpet (born 1892). 30 – Tony Sbarbaro, American drummer (born 1897). 31 – Tony Pastor, Italian-American novelty singer and tenor saxophonist (born 1907). November 2 – Slick Jones, American drummer (born 1907). 14 – Johnny Bayersdorffer, New Orleans cornetist and bandleader (born 1899). 18 – Ted Heath, English trombonist and big-band leader (born 1902). December 9 – Bobby Henderson, American pianist and trumpeter (born 1920). 16 – Leo Mathisen, Danish pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader (born 1906)https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/leo-mathisen/ Leo Mathisen All About Jazz 3 March 2025 26 – Jiří Šlitr, Czech songwriter, pianist, singer, actor, and painter (born 1924). Births thumb|Joshua Redman at the 2017 Kongsberg Jazzfestival. thumb|Chris Minh Doky in 2008. thumb|Marcin Jahr in 2011. thumb|Olga Konkova at Buckleys during the 2016 Oslo Jazzfestival. thumb|Francesco Buzzurro in 2008. thumb|Per Mathisen at Buckleys, during the 2016 Oslo Jazzfestival. January 3 – James Carter, American saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. 24 – Duane Eubanks, American trumeter and flugelhornist. February 1 – 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. March 10 – 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. April 9 – 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. May 6 – 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. June 2 – Kate Michaels, American singer. 11 Assif Tsahar, Israeli avant-garde tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist. Michael Lington, American saxophonist. 22 – Régis Huby, French violinist, composer, and arranger. July 4 – Carolyn Breuer, German saxophonist. 7 – Svein Olav Herstad, Norwegian pianist. 27 – Edward Simon, Venezuelan pianist and composer. August 4 – Dylan Howe, English drummer, bandleader, session musician, and composer, The Blockheads. 16 – Kate Higgins, American voice actress, singer, and pianist. 25 Olga Konkova, Russian-Norwegian pianist and composer. Øyvind Brække (August 25), Norwegian trombonist. 28 – Na Yoon-sun, South Korean singer. September 14 – Denys Baptiste, British tenor and soprano saxophonist. 16 Ayako Shirasaki, Japanese pianist and composer. Roy Paci, Italian trumpeter, singer, composer, and arranger. 19 Cuong Vu, Vietnam-born avant-garde fusion trumpeter. Candy Dulfer, Dutch alto saxophonist and singer. 26 – Peter Asplund, Swedish trumpeter, singer, and composer. October 1 – Ori Kaplan, Israeli avant-garde saxophonist. 4 – Mat Maneri, American composer, improviser, and jazz violin and viola player 7 Francesco Buzzurro, Italian guitarist and composer. Per Mathisen, Norwegian bassist and composer. 8 – Gulleiv Wee, Norwegian bassist, The September When. 16 – Roy Hargrove, American trumpeter (died 2018). 27 Marek Napiórkowski, Polish guitarist and composer. Stéphane Galland, Belgian drummer. 31 – Catherine Delaunay, French clarinetist and composer. November 25 – Kim Ofstad, Norwegian drummer, D'Sound. 29 – Fredrik Ljungkvist, Swedish saxophonist and clarinetist, Atomic. December 6 – Daniel Tinte, Argentinian pianist and composer. 19 – Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Azerbaijani scat singer, pianist and composer. 31 – Joyce Cooling, American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Unknown date Adrian Fry, British trombonist. Alon Yavnai, Israel-born pianist and composer. Guillermo Klein, Argentine pianist and composer. Lelo Nika, Serbian-born Romanian-Romani accordionist. Lucian Ban, Romanian jazz pianist. Per "Ruskträsk" Johansson, Swedish saxophonist, flautist, and clarinettist. Per «Texas» Johansson, Swedish saxophonist and clarinettist. Ricardo Martinez, Venezuelan bass guitarist. Thomas Fryland, Danish trumpeter. See also 1960s Jazz 1960s in jazz List of years in jazz 1969 in music References External links History Of Jazz Timeline: 1969 at All About Jazz October 2021 Jazz Category:Jazz by year