1999 in jazz

Events

January

March

• 26 – The 26th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway.

  May

• 13 – The 27th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway.
• 21 – The 28th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany.

  June

• 30 – The 35th Kongsberg Jazzfestival started in Kongsberg, Norway.

  July

• 1 – The 20th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• 2 – The 9th Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria.
• 3 – The 33rd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland.
• 10
• * The 24th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague.
• * The 34th Pori Jazz started in Pori, Finland.
• 11 – The 52nd Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France.
• 12 – The 39th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway.
• 21 – The 34th San Sebastian Jazz Festival started in San Sebastian, Spain.

  August

• 9 – The 14th Oslo Jazzfestival started in Oslo, Norway.
• 11 – The 13th Sildajazz started in Haugesund, Norway.
• 13 – The 16th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales.

  September

• 17 – The 42nd Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California.

  Unknown date

• "Don't Know Why" by Jesse Harris appears on his 1999 album, Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos.
• The Magic City Jazz Orchestra 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

July

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

  Deaths

• 6 – Michel Petrucciani, French pianist and composer.
• 7 – Fred Hopkins, American upright bassist.

• 1 – Julius Wechter, American vibraphonist and composer.
• 5 – Colin Purbrook, English pianist, upright bassist, and trumpeter.
• 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer.
• 8 – Richard B. Boone, American jazz musician, trombonist, and vocalist.
• 7 – Bobby Troup, American pianist and songwriter.
• 11 – Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone.
• 16 – Betty Roché, American singer.
• 19
• * Lauderic Caton, Trinidadian guitarist.
• * Trudy Desmond, Canadian singer.
• 27 – Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer.

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

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

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

• 2 – Andy Simpkins, American bassist.
• 5
• * Ernie Wilkins, American tenor saxophonist.
• * Mel Tormé, American singer.
• 8 – Rosy McHargue, American clarinetist.
• 15 – Fausto Papetti, Italian alto saxophonist.

• 9 – Talib Dawud, American trumpeter.
• 11 – Helen Forrest, American singer.
• 22 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer.
• 27 – Sweets Edison, American trumpeter.

• 3 – Leroy Vinnegar, American bassist.
• 24 – Warren Covington, American trombonist.
• 25 – Spiegle Willcox, American trombonist.

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

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

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

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

  Births

• 3 – Tom Ibarra, French guitarist and composer.