1999 in jazz explained

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1999.

Events

March

• 26 – The 26th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 26 – 28).^[1]

May

• 13 – The 27th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 13 – 29).^[2]
• 21 – The 28th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 21 – 24).^[3]

June

• 30 – The 35th Kongsberg Jazzfestival started in Kongsberg, Norway (June 30 – July 3).^[4]

July

• 1 – The 20th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (July 1 – 11).^[5]
• 2 – The 9th Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria (July 2 – 10).^[6]
• 3 – The 33rd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 3 – 18).^[7]
• 10
  • The 24th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 10 – 12).^[8]
  • The 34th Pori Jazz started in Pori, Finland (July 10 – 19).^[9]
• 11 – The 52nd Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France (July 11 – 18).^[10]
• 12 – The 39th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (July 12 – 17).^[11]
• 21 – The 34th San Sebastian Jazz Festival started in San Sebastian, Spain (July 22 – 27).^[12]

August

• 9 – The 14th Oslo Jazzfestival started in Oslo, Norway (August 9 – 15).^[4]
• 11 – The 13th Sildajazz started in Haugesund, Norway (August 11 – 15).^[4]
• 13 – The 16th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (August 13 – 15).^[13]

September

• 17 – The 42nd Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 17 – 19).^[14]

Unknown date

• "Don't Know Why" by Jesse Harris appears on his 1999 album, Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos.
• The Magic City Jazz Orchestra (MCJO) American jazz ensemble is founded.
• The Pulitzer Prize Board bestows a special posthumous honor on Duke Ellington.
• WEAA is named 1999 Jazz Station of the Year by Gavin magazine.
• Atomic, Norwegian / Swedish jazz band formed.
• Radioactive Sago Project, a Filipino jazz rock band formed in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
• III Records, a record label based in Japan is founded.
• Zoe Rahman, British jazz composer and pianist, won the "Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year" Award.

Album releases

With Wikipedia articles

• 1999 Remixes, the third compilation album released by British acid jazz band Jamiroquai
• April Kisses, by Bucky Pizzarelli
• Contemporary Jazz, by the Branford Marsalis Quartet
• Continuance, by jazz fusion band Greetings From Mercury, recorded live at Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
• Live at the Floating Jazz Festival, from the 1997 jazz festival of the same name by violinist Johnny Frigo and his quartet.
• Peculiar Situation, a smooth jazz studio album by Earl Klugh
• Synergy, studio album by jazz-fusion group Dave Weckl Band
• Time's Mirror, big band album by jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger, Tom Harrell
• Without Kuryokhin, American jazz multi-instrumentalist Kenny Millions and Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide.
• Barefoot on the Beach, by American smooth jazz vocalist Michael Franks.

Other

• Jane Ira Bloom

The Red Quartets

• Steve Coleman

The Sonic Language of Myth – Believing Learning Knowing

• Marty Ehrlich

Malinke's Dance

• Bill Dixon

Papyrus I

• Guillermo Gregorio

Red Cubed

• Paul Dunmall

Bebop Starburst

• Matthew Shipp

Expansion, Power, Release

• Misha Mengelberg

Solo

• Marilyn Crispell

⋅Red

• Marilyn Crispell: Blue
• Evan Parker

After Appleby

• Joshua Redman

Beyond

• Maybe Monday

Saturn's Finger

• Richard Lee Johnson: Fingertip Ship (Metro Blue)

Deaths

January

• 6 – Michel Petrucciani, French pianist and composer (born 1962).
• 7 – Fred Hopkins, American upright bassist (born 1947).

February

• 1 – Julius Wechter, American vibraphonist and composer (born 1935).
• 5 – Colin Purbrook, English pianist, upright bassist, and trumpeter (born 1936).
• 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (born 1923).
• 8 – Richard B. Boone, American jazz musician, trombonist, and vocalist (born 1930).
• 7 – Bobby Troup, American pianist and songwriter (born 1918).
• 11 – Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone (born 1922).
• 16 – Betty Roché, American singer (born 1918).^[16]
• 19
  • Lauderic Caton, Trinidadian guitarist (born 1910).
  • Trudy Desmond, Canadian singer (born 1945).
• 27 – Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer (born 1934).

March

• 3 – John Roache, American pianist and composer of Ragtime (born 1940).
• 4 – Teddy McRae, American tenor saxophonist and arranger (born 1908).
• 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor (born 1916).
• 22 – Rick Fay, American clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1926).
• 29 – Joe Williams, American vocalist (born 1918).

April

• 1 – Jesse Stone, American pianist and songwriter (born 1901).
• 3 – Herman Foster, American pianist (born 1928).
• 6 – Red Norvo, American vibraphonist (born 1908).
• 21 – Charles Rogers, American film actor and musician (born 1904).
• 23 – Melba Liston, American trombonist, composer, and musical arranger (born 1926).
• 27 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (born 1922).

May

• 8 – Leon Thomas, American avant-garde jazz singer (born 1937).
• 18 – Freddy Randall, English jazz trumpeter and bandleader (born 1921).
• 19 – Candy Candido, American bassist and vocalist (born 1913).

June

• 2 – Andy Simpkins, American bassist (born 1932).
• 5
  • Ernie Wilkins, American tenor saxophonist (born 1922).
  • Mel Tormé, American singer (born 1925).
• 8 – Rosy McHargue, American clarinetist (born 1902).
• 15 – Fausto Papetti, Italian alto saxophonist (born 1923).

July

• 9 – Talib Dawud, American trumpeter (born 1923).
• 11 – Helen Forrest, American singer (born 1917).
• 22 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer (born 1958).
• 27 – Sweets Edison, American trumpeter (born 1915).

August

• 3 – Leroy Vinnegar, American bassist (born 1928).
• 24 – Warren Covington, American trombonist (born 1921).
• 25 – Spiegle Willcox, American trombonist (born 1903).

September

• 6 – Arnold Fishkind, American bassist (born 1919).
• 8 – Moondog, American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor (born 1916).
• 30 – Anna Mae Winburn, African-American vocalist and bandleader (born 1913).

October

• 2 – Sal Salvador, American bebop jazz guitarist and a prominent music educator (born 1925).
• 4 – Art Farmer, American trumpeter and flugelhorn player (born 1928).
• 8 – Manfredo Fest, Brazilian pianist and keyboardist (born 1936).
• 9 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphonist (born 1923).
• 18 – Tony Crombie, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader, and composer (born 1925).
• 21 – LaMont Johnson, American pianist who played in the hard bop and post-bop genres (born 1941).
• 31 – Wyatt Ruther, American upright bassist (born 1923).

November

• 8 – Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (born 1941).
• 13
  • John Benson Brooks, American jazz pianist, songwriter, arranger, and composer (born 1917).
  • Donald Mills, American singer, The Mills Brothers (born 1915).
• 26
  • Clifford Jarvis, American hard bop and free jazz drummer (born 1941).
  • Henry Nemo, American musician, songwriter, and actor (born 1909).
• 30 – Don "Sugarcane" Harris, American violinist (born 1938).

December

• 2 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (born 1925).
• 4 – Edward Vesala, Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer (born 1945).
• 7 – Kenny Baker, English trumpeter, cornetist, flugelhornist, and composer (born 1921).
• 11 – Charles Earland, American jazz composer, organist and saxophonist in the soul jazz idiom (born 1941).
• 14 – Walt Levinsky, American big band and orchestral player, composer, arranger, and band leader (born 1929).
• 17 – Grover Washington Jr., American saxophonist (born 1943).
• 26 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer and songwriter (born 1942).
• 28 – Terry Rosen, American guitarist, concert promoter and radio DJ (born 1939).
• 30 – Sam Ranelli, American drummer (born 1920).

Births

October

• 3 – Tom Ibarra, French guitarist and composer.

See also

• 1990s in jazz
• List of years in jazz
• 1999 in music

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vossajazz – Historie . Norwegian . . 2016-04-24.
2. Web site: Nattjazz . Norwegian . . 2016-04-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160322193111/http://www.nattjazz.no/historie/index.php?ID=Alle . 2016-03-22 .
3. Web site: Moers Festival 1999 . . 2016-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314024317/http://www.moers-festival.de/archive-2012.html?L=1 . 2016-03-14 . dead .
4. Web site: Her er festivalene . 27 April 1999 . Norwegian . . 2016-04-28.
5. Web site: Festival International de Jazz de Montréal . . 2016-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120811051738/http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/history/1999/Default.aspx . 2012-08-11 . dead .
6. Web site: Jazz Fest Wien Festival History . . 2016-04-22.
7. Web site: Montreux Jazz Festival 1999 Setlists . Setlist.fm . 2016-04-22.
8. Web site: North Sea Jazz Festival 1993 . . 2016-04-22.
9. Web site: History of Pori Jazz . . 2016-04-22.
10. Web site: Nice Jazz Festival 2000 Setlists . Setlist.fm . 2016-04-27.
11. Web site: Molde International Jazz Festival . Europeana.eu . 2016-04-28.
12. Web site: San Sebastian's Jazz Festival poster 1999 . Pinterest.com . 2016-04-27.
13. Web site: Brecon Jazz Programme 1999 . FriendsOfBreconJazz.com . 2016-04-24.
14. Web site: Monterey Jazz Festival 1999 Poster . Kerouac.com . 2016-04-28.
15. Web site: Charlie Haden: The Art Of The Song . John . Sharpe . . 1999-12-01 . 2016-02-29.
16. Web site: Betty Roche, Singer of Blues And Be-Bop, 81 . Ben . Ratliff . The New York Times . 1999-03-01 . 2018-01-27.