1965 in jazz explained

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1965.

Events

July

• 1 – The 12th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 1 – 4).^[1]

Unknown dates

• Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in larger premises at 47 Frith Street, in London's Soho district.
• Carla Bley divorced Paul Bley.^[2]

Album releases

• Andrew Hill

Compulsion

• Archie Shepp

Fire Music

• Ben Webster

Stormy Weather

• Bobby Hutcherson

Components

• Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue
• Don Cherry

Complete Communion

• Eddie Palmieri

Mozambique

• Frank Wright

Frank Wright Trio

• Gabor Szabo

Gypsy

• George Finola

Jazz Of The Chosen Few

• Herbie Hancock

Maiden Voyage

• Horace Silver

The Cape Verdean Blues

• Horace Silver: Song for My Father
• John Coltrane

A Love Supreme

• John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
• Lee Morgan

Cornbread

• Lee Morgan: The Gigolo
• Marion Brown

Marion Brown Quartet

• Milford Graves

Percussion Ensemble

• Wes Montgomery

Bumpin'

• New York Art Quartet

Mohawk

• Ornette Coleman

Chappaqua Suite

• Patty Waters

Sings

• Prince Lasha

Inside Story

• Roland Kirk

Rip, Rig and Panic

• Roswell Rudd

Roswell Rudd

• Sam Rivers

Contours

• Sun Ra

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two

• Sun Ra: The Magic City
• Vince Guaraldi

A Charlie Brown Christmas

• Wayne Shorter

The All Seeing Eye

• Wayne Shorter: Soothsayer

Standards

See also: List of post-1950 jazz standards.

Deaths

January

• 29 – Jack Hylton, English pianist, composer, band leader, and impresario (born 1892).

February

• 12 – Bonnie Wetzel, American upright bassist (born 1926).
• 15 – Nat King Cole, American pianist and singer (born 1919).

March

• 8 – Tadd Dameron, American composer, arranger, and pianist (born 1917).

May

• 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (born 1911).
• 14 – Joe Sanders, American pianist, singer, and bandleader (born 1896).
• 24 – Denzil Best, American percussionist and composer (born 1917).

June

• 25 – Keg Purnell, American drummer (born 1915).

July

• 1 – Claude Thornhill, American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (born 1909).
• 4 – Valdemar Eiberg, Danish musician and orchestra leader (born 1892).
• 8 – Willie Dennis, American trombonist (born 1926).
• 14 – Spencer Williams, African-American pianist, singer, and composer (born 1889).

August

• 10 – Freddie Slack, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1910).

September

• 15 – Steve Brown, American upright bassist (born 1896).

October

• 10 – Gerorge Tucker, American upright bassist (born 1927).
• 27 – Edythe Wright, American singer (born 1914).
• 28 – Earl Bostic, American alto saxophonist (born 1913).

November

• 6 – Clarence Williams, American pianist, vocalist, and composer (born 1898).
• 14 – Buster Harding, Canadian-born American pianist (born 1912).
• 18 – Lou Black, American banjo player (born 1901).
• 21 – Cecil Brower, American violinist (perforated ulcer) (born 1914).
• Warren Tartaglia, American saxophonist (born 1944).

December

• 2 – Hank D'Amico, American clarinetist (born 1915).
• 11 – Dave Barbour, American guitarist (born 1912).
• 20 – Charlie Burse, American ukulele, banjo, and guitar player (born 1901).
• 26 – Peter Packay, Belgian trumpeter, arranger, and composer (born 1904).

Births

January

• 1 – Miki Higashino, Japanese pianist and video game composer.
• 3 – Sheila Majid, Malaysian singer.
• 19 – Antonio Faraò, Italian pianist.

February

• 13 – Ole Mathisen, Norwegian saxophonist.
• 24 – Tone Åse, Norwegian singer.
• 27 – Joey Calderazzo, American pianist.

March

• 2 – Wolfgang Muthspiel, Austrian guitarist and record label owner.
• 8 – Karin Mensah, Cape Verdean singer.
• 12 – Liv Stoveland, Norwegian singer.
• 22 – David Linx, Belgian singer and songwriter.
• 24 – Patrick Scales, British-German bass guitarist.

April

• 7 – Sylvain Luc, French guitarist.
• 10 – Omar Sosa, Cuban composer, bandleader, and pianist.
• 20 – Darko Jurković, Croatian guitarist and composer.
• 29 – Rain Sultanov, Azerbaijani saxophonist.

May

• 3 – Magnus Öström, Swedish drummer, Esbjörn Svensson Trio or e.s.t.
• 10 – Philip Harper, American trumpeter.
• 16 – Javon Jackson, American tenor saxophonist.

June

• 3
  • Derrick Gardner, American trumpeter.
  • Mirko Fait, Italian saxophonist and composer.
• 9 – Helge Sunde, Norwegian trombonist and multi-instrumentalist.
• 27 – Magnus Broo, Swedish trumpeter, Atomic.

July

• 5 – Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli pianist.
• 16 – Odd André Elveland, Norwegian saxophonist.
• 19 – Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist.
• 28 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American trombonist and record producer.

August

• 4 – Terri Lyne Carrington, American drummer, composer, singer, record producer, and entrepreneur.
• 6 – Ravi Coltrane, American saxophonist.
• 21 – Leon Parker, American percussionist and composer.
• 29 – Mark d'Inverno, British pianist, composer, and computer scientist.^[3]

September

• 5 – Björn Meyer, Swedish bassist and composer.
• 11 – Jesse Davis, American saxophonist.
• 24 – Njål Ølnes, Norwegian saxophonist.
• 28 – Hans Ulrik, Danish saxophonist, and composer.

October

• 9 – Geir Lysne, Norwegian saxophonist and orchestra leader.
• 12 – Luis Bonilla, American trombonist, producer, composer and educator.
• 18 – Curtis Stigers, American vocalist, saxophonist, guitarist, and songwriter.

November

• 2 – Andrew D'Angelo, American saxophonist.
• 10 – Mark Turner, American saxophonist.
• 21 – Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter.

December

• 5 – Hildegunn Øiseth, Norwegian trumpeter and hornist.
• 7 – Wolfgang Haffner, German drummer.
• 29 – Danilo Perez, Panamanian pianist and composer.
• 30 – Ron Affif, American guitarist.

Unknown date

• Arturo Tappin, Barbadian saxophonist and composer.
• Bradley Joseph, American pianist.
• Helge Andreas Norbakken, Norwegian percussionist.
• Kostas Theodorou, Greek upright bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

See also

• 1960s in jazz
• List of years in jazz
• 1965 in music

Bibliography

• Book: The New Real Book, Volume I. 1988. Sher Music. 0-9614701-4-3. refTheNewRealBookVol1.
• Book: The New Real Book, Volume II . 1991 . Sher Music . 0-9614701-7-8. refTheNewRealBookVol2.
• Book: The New Real Book, Volume III. 1995. Sher Music. 1-883217-30-X. refTheNewRealBookVol3.
• Book: The Real Book, Volume I . 6th . 2004 . Hal Leonard . 0-634-06038-4. refTheRealBookVol1.
• Book: The Real Book, Volume II . 2nd . 2007 . Hal Leonard . 1-4234-2452-2. refTheRealBookVol2.
• Book: The Real Book, Volume III . 2nd . 2006 . Hal Leonard . 0-634-06136-4. refTheRealBookVol3.
• Book: The Real Jazz Book . Warner Bros . 978-91-85041-36-7. refTheRealJazzBook.
• Book: The Real Vocal Book, Volume I . 2006 . Hal Leonard . 0-634-06080-5. refTheRealVocalBookVol1.

External links

• History Of Jazz Timeline: 1965 at All About Jazz

Notes and References

1. Web site: Newport Jazz Festival 1965 Poster . Rirocks.net . 2016-05-03.
2. Web site: Bley, Carla (Lovella May Borg) . Jazz.com . 2016-03-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150302045714/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/bley-carla-lovella-may-borg . 2015-03-02 .
3. Web site: Jazz Musicians Born On August 29 . . 2018-04-15.