2024 in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2024.
Decade2020s in jazz
Music2024 in music
StandardsList of jazz standards
See also2023 in jazz – 2025 in jazz
| 2024 in jazz | |
|---|---|
| Decade | 2020s in jazz |
| Music | 2024 in music |
| Standards | List of jazz standards |
| See also | 2023 in jazz – 2025 in jazz |
Events
January
- January 27 – Domi and JD Beck tour in Singapore[1]
February
- February 4 – The 66th Annual Grammy Awards occur.
April
May
June
July
- July 9 – Kamasi Washington starts his first ever UK tour, at a bar in Herne Hill, UK[2]
August
September
October
- October 11–20 – Headliners at the Stockholm Jazz Festival include Bill Frisell, Julius Rodriguez, Sona Jobarteh, Gogo Penguin and The Headhunters.[3]
Albums
Awards
Grammy Awards
The 66th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 4, 2024 honoring the best recordings, compositions, and artists from October 1, 2022, to September 15, 2023, as chosen by the members of the Recording Academy.
All critically reviewed albums ranked
Metacritic
| Number | Artist | Album | Average score | Number of reviews | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles Lloyd | The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow | 95 | 6 | [22] |
| 2 | Julian Lage | Speak to Me | 91 | 4 | [23] |
| 3 | Arooj Aftab | Night Reign | 89 | 12 | [24] |
| 4 | Blue Lab Beats | Blue Eclipse | 87 | 4 | [25] |
| 5 | Vijay Iyer | Compassion | 86 | 6 | [26] |
| 6 | Ezra Collective | Dance, No One's Watching | 85 | 10 | [27] |
| 7 | Out Of/Into | Motion 1 | 85 | 5 | [28] |
| 8 | Mary Halvorson | Cloudward | 84 | 8 | [29] |
| 9 | Meshell Ndegeocello | No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin | 84 | 7 | [30] |
| Sun Ra Arkestra | Lights On a Satellite | 84 | 7 | [31] | |
| Amaro Freitas | Y’Y | 84 | 7 | [32] | |
| 10 | Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento | Milton + Esperanza | 84 | 5 | [33] |
| Bill Frisell | Orchestras | 84 | 5 | [34] | |
| Madeleine Peyroux | Let's Walk | 84 | 5 | [35] | |
| 11 | Placenta | Carlos Niño | 84 | 4 | [36] |
| Joel Ross | Nublues | 84 | 4 | [37] | |
| Orquesta Akokán | Caracoles | 84 | 4 | [38] | |
| Zara McFarlane | Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan | 84 | 4 | [39] | |
| 12 | Nala Sinephro | Endlessness | 83 | 13 | [40] |
| 13 | Shabaka Hutchings | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace | 83 | 9 | [41] |
| 14 | Nubya Garcia | Odyssey | 83 | 9 | [42] |
| 15 | Kamasi Washington | Fearless Movement | 82 | 16 | [43] |
| 16 | Wendy Eisenberg | Viewfinder | 82 | 7 | [44] |
| 17 | Mary Halvorson | Cloudward | 81 | 9 | [45] |
| 18 | The Necks | Bleed | 81 | 6 | [46] |
| SML | Small Medium Large | 81 | 6 | [47] | |
| 19 | Anna Butterss | Mighty Vertebrate | 81 | 5 | [48] |
| 20 | Pat Metheny | MoonDial | 80 | 4 | [49] |
| 21 | Fievel Is Glauque | Rong Weicknes | 77 | 7 | [50] |
Deaths
- January 25 – Bruno Amstad, Swiss jazz singer, 59 (cancer)[51]
- January 26
- Dean Brown, American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician, 68 (cancer)[52]
- Michel Hausser, French jazz vibraphonist, 96[53]
- January 29 – Tony Cedras, South African jazz musician, 71[54]
- March 3 – Eleanor Collins, 104, Canadian jazz singer and TV host[55]
- April 5 – Phil Nimmons, Canadian jazz clarinetist, 100[56]
- April 7 – Joe Viera, German saxophonist and festival founder, 91[57]
- May 7 – Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger, 88[58]
- June 9 – Alex Riel, Danish jazz and rock drummer, 83[59]
- August 3 – Shaun Martin, American jazz keyboardist from Snarky Puppy, 45[60]
- August 23 – Russell Malone, American jazz guitarist, 60[61]
- November 12 – Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer, 99[62]
