1965 in jazz

1965 in jazz
Jazz band playing at Preservation Hall, New Orleans, 1965, including Kid Sheik Colar, Captain John Handy, and drummer Alex Bigard.
Decade	1960s in jazz
Music	1965 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1964 in jazz – 1966 in jazz

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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).

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.

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.

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

• The New Real Book, Volume I. Sher Music. 1988. ISBN 0-9614701-4-3.
• The New Real Book, Volume II. Sher Music. 1991. ISBN 0-9614701-7-8.
• The New Real Book, Volume III. Sher Music. 1995. ISBN 1-883217-30-X.
• The Real Book, Volume I (6th ed.). Hal Leonard. 2004. ISBN 0-634-06038-4.
• The Real Book, Volume II (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2007. ISBN 1-4234-2452-2.
• The Real Book, Volume III (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06136-4.
• The Real Jazz Book. Warner Bros. ISBN 978-91-85041-36-7.
• The Real Vocal Book, Volume I. Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06080-5.

External links

• History Of Jazz Timeline: 1965 at All About Jazz