This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2020.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- May 6 – Gregory Porter's brother Lloyd dies of COVID-19, two months after the singer is forced to interrupt his world tour by the pandemic.
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Albums
Deaths
- January 10 â Wolfgang Dauner, 84, German jazz pianist
- February 10 â Lyle Mays, 66, American jazz fusion keyboardist (Pat Metheny Group)
- February 16 â Graeme Allwright, 93, New Zealand-French folk and jazz singer-songwriter
- February 18 â Jon Christensen, 76m Norwegian jazz drummer
- March 2 â Susan Weinert, 54, German jazz fusion guitarist (cancer)
- March 6 â McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist
- March 10 â Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine jazz saxophonist (COVID-19)
- April 1 - Ellis Marsalis, Jr., 85, American jazz pianist and educator
- April 15 - Lee Konitz, 92, American jazz saxophonist
- October 17 – Toshinori Kondo, 71, Japanese jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter
- October 31 â Marc Fosset, 71, French jazz guitarist
- November 1 â Pedro Iturralde, 91, Spanish jazz saxophonist
- November 7 â Cándido Camero, 99, Cuban jazz percussionist
- November 11 â Andrew White, 78, American jazz saxophonist
- November 26 â Allan Botschinsky, 80, Danish jazz trumpeter
- December 30 â Eugene Wright, 97, American jazz bassist (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
See also
References
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