2021 in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2021.
Decade2020s in jazz
Music2021 in music
StandardsList of jazz standards
See also2020 in jazz – 2022 in jazz
| 2021 in jazz | |
|---|---|
Maria Schneider, whose album Data Lords was voted best of 2020 by critics in January 2021 | |
| Decade | 2020s in jazz |
| Music | 2021 in music |
| Standards | List of jazz standards |
| See also | 2020 in jazz – 2022 in jazz |
Events
January
- January 14 – The 2020 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll rates Maria Schneider's Data Lords as the best album of 2020.[1]
February
March
- March 14 - The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards occur.[2] Jazz winners include:
- Kurt Elling wins Best Jazz Vocal Album for his 2019 album Secrets are the Best Stories
- Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade win Best Jazz Instrumental Album for their 2021 album Trilogy 2[3]
- The Maria Schneider Orchestra wins Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for its 2020 album Data Lords
- Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra win Best Latin Jazz Album for their album Four Questions
April
May
June
July
- July 30 - Shabaka Hutchings from Sons Of Kemet founds a new UK Jazz record label, "Native Rebel Recordings"[4]
- July 30-August 1 – The Newport Jazz Festival takes place in the US state of Rhode Island. Performers include Gerald Clayton, Charles Lloyd, Mavis Staples, Trombone Shorty, Kamasi Washington and Brandee Younger.[5]
August
September
October
- October 21 - Takuya Kuroda releases "Midnight Crisp" [6]
November
December
- December 4 - Promises (Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra album) is named album of the year 2021 by TIME magazine[7]
Albums
Deaths
- January 6 – Bobby Few, 85, American jazz pianist[34]
- January 17 – Sammy Nestico, 96, American composer and arranger[35]
- January 20 – Keith Nichols, 75, British instrumentalist and bandleader (COVID-19)[36]
- January 23 – Jonas Gwangwa, 83, South African jazz trombonist[37]
- February 9 – Chick Corea, 79, American pianist, composer and bandleader[38]
- February 12 – Milford Graves, 79, American drummer and polymath[39]
- March 2 – Chris Barber, 90, British bandleader and trombonist[40]
- March 7 – Josky Kiambukuta, 72, Congolese singer (TPOK Jazz)[41]
- March 8 – Julien-François Zbinden, 103, Swiss composer and jazz pianist[42]
- March 10 – János Gonda, 89, Hungarian jazz pianist[43]
- March 19 – Cristián Cuturrufo, 48, Chilean jazz trumpeter (COVID-19)[44]
- March 28 – Malcolm Cecil, 84, British jazz bassist and record producer[45]
- April 7 – Sonny Simmons, 87, American jazz saxophonist[46]
- May 8 – Curtis Fuller, 88, American jazz trombonist[47]
- May 15 – Mario Pavone, 80, American jazz bassist, composer and bandleader[48]
- June 21 – Nobuo Hara, 94, Japanese saxophonist[49]
- July 4 – Rick Laird, 80, Irish jazz bassist (Mahavishnu Orchestra)[50]
- July 31 – Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, 93, Polish jazz musician and composer[51]
- August 28 – Francesc Burrull, 86, Spanish musician and composer[52]
- September 16 –George Mraz, 77, Czech-American jazz bassist[53]
- September 28 - Dr. Lonnie Smith, 79, American jazz Hammond B3 organist
- October 18 – Franco Cerri, 95, Italian jazz guitarist.[54]
- November 1 – Pat Martino, 77, American jazz guitarist.[55]
- November 18 - Slide Hampton, 89, American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.
- December 8 - Barry Harris, 91, American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator
