2020 in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2020.
January
February
March
April
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]
July
August
- August 6-8 – The Newport Jazz Festival is replaced by a programme of virtual events created by founder George Wein.[3]
September
October
November
December
Albums
Deaths
- January 10 – Wolfgang Dauner, 84, German jazz pianist[28]
- February 10 – Lyle Mays, 66, American jazz fusion keyboardist (Pat Metheny Group)[29]
- February 16 – Graeme Allwright, 93, New Zealand-French folk and jazz singer-songwriter[30]
- February 18 – Jon Christensen, 76m Norwegian jazz drummer[31]
- March 2 – Susan Weinert, 54, German jazz fusion guitarist (cancer)[32]
- March 6 – McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist[33]
- March 10 – Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine jazz saxophonist (COVID-19)[34]
- 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[35]
- October 31 – Marc Fosset, 71, French jazz guitarist[36]
- November 1 – Pedro Iturralde, 91, Spanish jazz saxophonist[37]
- November 7 – Cándido Camero, 99, Cuban jazz percussionist[38]
- November 11 – Andrew White, 78, American jazz saxophonist[39]
- November 26 – Allan Botschinsky, 80, Danish jazz trumpeter[40]
- December 30 – Eugene Wright, 97, American jazz bassist (Dave Brubeck Quartet)[41]
