1999 in jazz
Overview of the events of 1999 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1999.
Events
January
March
May
June
July
August
September
Unknown date
Album releases
July
With Wikipedia articles
- 1999 Remixes, the third compilation album released by British acid jazz band Jamiroquai
- April Kisses, by Bucky Pizzarelli
- Contemporary Jazz, by the Branford Marsalis Quartet
- Continuance, by jazz fusion band Greetings From Mercury, recorded live at Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
- Live 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 Klugh
- Synergy, studio album by jazz-fusion group Dave Weckl Band
- Time's Mirror, big band album by jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger, Tom Harrell
- Without 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
Deaths
- January
- February
- 1 – Julius Wechter, American vibraphonist and composer (born 1935).
- 5 – Colin Purbrook, English pianist, upright bassist, and trumpeter (born 1936).
- 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (born 1923).
- 8 – Richard B. Boone, American jazz musician, trombonist, and vocalist (born 1930).
- 7 – Bobby Troup, American pianist and songwriter (born 1918).
- 11 – Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone (born 1922).
- 16 – Betty Roché, American singer (born 1918).[16]
- 19
- 27 – Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer (born 1934).
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- 2 – Sal Salvador, American bebop jazz guitarist and a prominent music educator (born 1925).
- 4 – Art Farmer, American trumpeter and flugelhorn player (born 1928).
- 8 – Manfredo Fest, Brazilian pianist and keyboardist (born 1936).
- 9 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphonist (born 1923).
- 18 – Tony Crombie, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader, and composer (born 1925).
- 21 – LaMont Johnson, American pianist who played in the hard bop and post-bop genres (born 1941).
- 31 – Wyatt Ruther, American upright bassist (born 1923).
- November
- December
- 2 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (born 1925).
- 4 – Edward Vesala, Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer (born 1945).
- 7 – Kenny Baker, English trumpeter, cornetist, flugelhornist, and composer (born 1921).
- 11 – Charles Earland, American jazz composer, organist and saxophonist in the soul jazz idiom (born 1941).
- 14 – Walt Levinsky, American big band and orchestral player, composer, arranger, and band leader (born 1929).
- 17 – Grover Washington Jr., American saxophonist (born 1943).
- 26 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer and songwriter (born 1942).
- 28 – Terry Rosen, American guitarist, concert promoter and radio DJ (born 1939).
- 30 – Sam Ranelli, American drummer (born 1920).
Births
- October
See also
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