2020 in jazz explained

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2020.

Events

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.^[1]

June

• June 26 - Immanuel Wilkins signs with Blue Note Records^[2]

August

• August 6-8  - The Newport Jazz Festival is replaced by a programme of virtual events created by founder George Wein.^[3]

December

Albums

Month	Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
January	17	Is That So?	John McLaughlin (musician), Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain (musician)	Abstract Logix
February	14	Life Goes On		ECM Records		^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]
	21	From This Place	Pat Metheny	Nonesuch Records		^[8]
March	20	Elegant Traveller	Jocelyn Gould			^[9]
April	10	Iron Starlet	Connie Han	Mack Avenue Records		^[10] ^[11]
June	12	Angels Around	Kurt Rosenwinkel
	20	Swallow Tales	John Scofield and Steve Swallow	ECM Records		^[12]
July	10	RoundAgain	Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade	Nonesuch		^[13]
August	7	Just Coolin	Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers	Blue Note Records	recorded in 1959.
	21	Source	Nubya Garcia	Concord		^[14] ^[15]
	28	The Call Within	Tigran Hamasyan	Nonesuch		^[16]

Deaths

• January 10 – Wolfgang Dauner, 84, German jazz pianist^[17]
• February 10 – Lyle Mays, 66, American jazz fusion keyboardist (Pat Metheny Group)^[18]
• February 16 – Graeme Allwright, 93, New Zealand-French folk and jazz singer-songwriter^[19]
• February 18 – Jon Christensen, 76m Norwegian jazz drummer^[20]
• March 2 – Susan Weinert, 54, German jazz fusion guitarist (cancer)^[21]
• March 6 – McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist^[22]
• March 10 – Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine jazz saxophonist (COVID-19)^[23]
• 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^[24]
• October 31 – Marc Fosset, 71, French jazz guitarist^[25]
• November 1 – Pedro Iturralde, 91, Spanish jazz saxophonist^[26]
• November 7 – Cándido Camero, 99, Cuban jazz percussionist^[27]
• November 11 – Andrew White, 78, American jazz saxophonist^[28]
• November 26 – Allan Botschinsky, 80, Danish jazz trumpeter^[29]
• December 30 – Eugene Wright, 97, American jazz bassist (Dave Brubeck Quartet)^[30]

See also

• List of 2020 albums
• List of jazz festivals
• List of years in jazz
• 2020s in jazz
• 2020 in music

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sixty Seconds: Gregory Porter on losing his brother to Covid, waking up the Queen and a love of hats. 25 September 2020. Sue Crawford. Metro. 31 December 2020.
2. Immanuel Wilkins signs to Blue Note: Immanuel Wilkins signs to Blue Note, accessdate: May 26, 2023
3. Web site: Newport Jazz Festival Announces Newport Jazz Revival 2020. July 23, 2020. What's Up New?. 31 December 2020.
4. Web site: Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow – Life Goes On (ECM) . JAZZIZ Magazine . 16 June 2020 . 24 May 2020.
5. Web site: Whitehaed . Kevin . Carla Bley's Trio Brings A Scaled-Down Dynamic To 'Life Goes On' . . 16 June 2020 . en . February 24, 2020.
6. Web site: LIFE GOES ON by CARLA BLEY, ANDY SHEPPARD, STEVE SWALLOW . . 16 June 2020 . en . 2020.
7. Web site: Gehr . Richard . Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow: Life Goes On . . 16 June 2020 . 27 February 2020.
8. Web site: Layman . Will . Pat Metheny Adds Strings to His Quartet on From This Place . . April 13, 2020 . September 16, 2020.
9. Web site: Jazz . All About . 2020-04-08 . Jocelyn Gould: Elegant Traveler album review @ All About Jazz . 2023-07-01 . All About Jazz . en.
10. DownBeat Reviews: DownBeat Reviews, accessdate: June 19, 2023
11. Connie Han: Iron Starlet album review @ All About Jazz: Connie Han: Iron Starlet album review @ All About Jazz, accessdate: June 19, 2023
12. Web site: Cohen . Aaron . John Scofield: Swallow Tales (ECM) . . 31 May 2021 . August 2020.
13. Web site: Harris . Selwyn. Reviews . . 10 October 2020 . en . July 2018.
14. Pitchfork: Nubya Garcia: Source Album Review | Pitchfork, accessdate: June 19, 2023
15. Web site: Homewood . Ben . On The Radar: Nubya Garcia . . 31 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201025090235/https://www.musicweek.com/radar/read/on-the-radar-nubya-garcia/080916 . 25 October 2020 . 26 August 2020 . live.
16. Web site: Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within (Nonesuch). September 15, 2020. Jeff . Tamarkin . 10 October 2020 . JazzTimes.
17. News: Schleider . Tim . Stuttgarter Jazzlegende / Wolfgang Dauner ist tot. Stuttgarter Zeitung. 10 January 2020. de. 13 January 2020.
18. Web site: West . Michael J. . Lyle Mays 1953–2020 . JazzTimes . 27 February 2020 . 11 February 2020.
19. News: Le chanteur folk Graeme Allwright est mort. Le Monde. 16 February 2020. 2020-02-16.
20. Web site: Jon Christensen er død. no. Dagbladet. 18 February 2020 . 31 December 2020.
21. Web site: Die begnadete Gitarristin starb im Alter von 54 Jahren: Susan Weinert ist tot. Jacobi. Elke. Saarbrücker Zeitung. 5 March 2020 . de. 2020-03-13.
22. Web site: McCoy Tyner 1938 – 2020 . JazzTimes . 2020-10-28.
23. Web site: El saxofonista argentino Marcelo Peralta murió por coronavirus en Madrid. perfil.com. 10 March 2020. 10 March 2020. es.
24. Web site: Toshinori Kondo, Trailblazing Modern Trumpeter, Dies At 71. NPR. 2020-10-17. 2020-10-20.
25. News: Décès du guitariste Marc Fosset. France Musique. 2 November 2020. fr.
26. Web site: Muere Pedro Iturralde, gran maestro del jazz español . https://web.archive.org/web/20201101144304/https://www.abc.es/cultura/musica/abci-muere-pedro-iturralde-gran-maestro-jazz-espanol-202011011126_noticia.html . es . ABC . 1 November 2020 . 1 November 2020.
27. News: Genzlinger. Neil. 2020-11-22. Cándido Camero, Conga Master Who Transformed Jazz, Dies at 99. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-11-22. 0362-4331.
28. Web site: Andrew White, Prolific Multi-Instrumentalist, Scholar and Washington, D.C. Legend, Dies at 78 . West . Michael J. . . 13 November 2020 . 13 November 2020 . https://archive.today/20201115114852/https://www.wbgo.org/post/andrew-white-prolific-multi-instrumentalist-scholar-and-washington-dc-legend-dies-78%23stream/0 . 15 November 2020 . live .
29. Web site: Dansk musiklegende død . da . 29 November 2020 . 30 November 2020.
30. Web site: Eugene Wright, bassist with classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, dies aged 97. Ben Beaumont-Thomas. 1 Jan 2021. The Guardian. 1 Jan 2021.