This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2023.
Events
February
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
December
Albums
Awards
Grammy Awards
The 65th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 5, 2023 honoring the best recordings, compositions, and artists from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2022, as chosen by the members of the Recording Academy.
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Best Latin Jazz Album
All critically reviewed albums ranked
Metacritic
AnyDecentMusic
Deaths
January
February
- February 2 â Butch Miles, 78, American drummer
- February 13
- Guido Basso, 85, Canadian trumpeter.
- Alain Goraguer, 91, French pianist, arranger and film composer
- February 17 â Jerry Dodgion, 90, American saxophonist and flautist
- February 25 â Carl Saunders, 80, American trumpeter, composer and educator
March
- March 1 â Wally Fawkes, 98, Canadian-British clarinettist and satirical cartoonist
- March 2 â Wayne Shorter, 89, tenor saxophonist
- March 3 â Carlos Garnett, 84, Panamanian-born jazz saxophonist
- March 9 â Robin Lumley, 74, British jazz keyboardist (Brand X)
- March 13 â Simon Emmerson, 67, English jazz and worldbeat guitarist (Weekend, Working Week, Afro Celt Sound System)
- March 14 â Gloria Bosman, 50, South African jazz singer
- March 15 â Théo de Barros, 80, Brazilian jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer (Quarteto Novo)
- March 16 â Tony Coe, 88, English jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
April
- April 5 â DuÃ
¡ko GojkoviÃÂ, 91, Serbian jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger
- April 7 â Kidd Jordan, 87, American saxophonist
- April 9 â Karl Berger, 88, German jazz pianist, composer, and educator
- April 16 - Ahmad Jamal, 92, American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader
May
June
July
October
November
December
See also
References
External links