2024 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2024.

Events

January

• January 27 – Domi and JD Beck tour in Singapore

February

• February 4 – The 66th Annual Grammy Awards occur.

April

May

June

July

• July 9 – Kamasi Washington starts his first ever UK tour, at a bar in Herne Hill, UK

August

September

October

• October 11–20 – Headliners at the Stockholm Jazz Festival include Bill Frisell, Julius Rodriguez, Sona Jobarteh, Gogo Penguin and The Headhunters.

Albums

Awards

Grammy Awards

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 4, 2024 honoring the best recordings, compositions, and artists from October 1, 2022, to September 15, 2023, as chosen by the members of the Recording Academy.

All critically reviewed albums ranked

Metacritic

Deaths

• January 25 – Bruno Amstad, Swiss jazz singer, 59 (cancer)
• January 26
• Dean Brown, American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician, 68 (cancer)
• Michel Hausser, French jazz vibraphonist, 96
• January 29 – Tony Cedras, South African jazz musician, 71
• March 3 – Eleanor Collins, 104, Canadian jazz singer and TV host
• April 5 – Phil Nimmons, Canadian jazz clarinetist, 100
• April 7 – Joe Viera, German saxophonist and festival founder, 91
• May 7 – Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger, 88
• June 9 – Alex Riel, Danish jazz and rock drummer, 83
• August 3 – Shaun Martin, American jazz keyboardist from Snarky Puppy, 45
• August 23 – Russell Malone, American jazz guitarist, 60
• November 12 – Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer, 99

See also

• List of 2024 albums
• List of jazz festivals
• List of years in jazz
• 2024 in music

References

External links