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1969 in 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.

June

July

August

September

Album releases

Deaths

January
February
March
  • 25 – Billy Cotton, English bandleader (born 1899).
April
May
June
July
  • 14 – Ernie Farrow, American pianist, bassist, and drummer (born 1928).
August
September
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
December

Births

January
  • 3 – James Carter, American saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist.
  • 24 – Duane Eubanks, American trumeter and flugelhornist.
February
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
May
June
July
August
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
November
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.
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  • 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

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