This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2005.

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January

• 4 — Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster (born 1946).

February

• 8 — Jimmy Smith, American jazz organist (born 1928).^[31]
• 15 – Bill Potts, American pianist and arranger (born 1928).
• 20 – Pam Bricker, American singer and professor of music (born 1954).

March

• 8 — Larry Bunker, American drummer (born 1928).

April

• 7 — José Melis, Cuban-American bandleader and television personality (born 1920).
• 14
  • Andrew Bisset, Australian author, music educator, and singer (born 1953).
  • Benny Bailey, American bebop and hard-bop trumpeter (born 1925).
• 19
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (heart attack) (born 1946).^[32]
  • Stan Levey, American drummer (born 1926).
• 22 – Arnie Lawrence, American saxophonist (born 1938).
• 23 – Jimmy Woode, American upright bassist (born 1926).
• 28 – Percy Heath, American upright bassist (born 1923).^[33]
• 29 – Dianne Brooks, American singer (born 1939).

May

• 12 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress (born 1937).
• 13 – Victor Sproles, American bassist (born 1927).
• 29 – Oscar Brown, American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor (born 1926).

June

• 15 – Per Henrik Wallin, Swedish pianist and composer (born 1946).
• 16 – Billy Bauer, American cool jazz guitarist (born 1915).
• 18
  • Chris Griffin, American trumpeter (born 1915)
  • Basil Kirchin, English drummer and composer (born 1927).
• 29 – Mikkel Flagstad, Norwegian saxophonist (born 1930).

July

• 2 — Tom Talbert, American jazz pianist, composer, and band leader (born 1924).
• 4 — John Stubblefield, American saxophonist, flautist, and oboist (born 1945).
• 16 – Blue Barron, American orchestra leader (born 1913).
• 23 – Ted Greene, American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, columnist, and session musician (born 1946).
• 25 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonists and composer (born 1928).
• 27 – Dom Um Romão, Brazilian drummer and percussionist (born 1935).
• 29 – Al McKibbon, American jazz double bassist (born 1919).
• 30 – Lucky Thompson, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist (born 1924).

August

• 6 — Keter Betts, American upright bassist (born 1928).
• 12
  • Charlie Norman, Swedish pianist and entertainer (born 1920).
  • Francy Boland, Belgian composer and pianist (born 1929).
• 15 – Earl Zindars, American composer, Bill Evans (born 1927).
• 23 – Glenn Corneille, Dutch pianist (born 1970).

September

• 11 – Al Casey, American guitarist, Fats Waller's band (born 1915).
• 17 – Jack Lesberg, American upright bassist (born 1920).
• 25 – Georges Arvanitas, French pianist and organist (born 1931).

October

• 3 — Alfredo Rodríguez, Cuban pianist (born 1936).
• 14 – Oleg Lundstrem, Soviet and Russian composer and conductor, Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra (born 1916).
• 16 – Elmer Dresslar Jr., American voice actor and singer (born 1925).
• 20 – Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (born 1934).^[34]

November

• 13 – Harry Gold, British saxophonist and bandleader (born 1907).
• 15 – Roy Brooks, American drummer (born 1938).
• 19 – Bob Enevoldsen, American tenor saxophonist and valve trombonist (born 1920).

December

• 5 — Harry Pepl (60), Austrian guitarist (born 1945).^[35]
• 19 – Billy Amstell, British reedist (born 1911).
• 25 – Derek Bailey, English guitarist (born 1930).
• 26 – Bill DeArango, American guitarist (born 1921).

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