2020_in_jazz
2020 in jazz
Overview of the events of 2020 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2020.
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| 2020 in jazz | |
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| Decade | 2020s in jazz |
| Music | 2020 in music |
| Standards | List of jazz standards |
| See also | 2019 in jazz – 2021 in jazz |
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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
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| Month | Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes | Ref. |
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| January | 17 | Is That So? | John McLaughlin (musician), Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain (musician) | Abstract Logix | [4] | |
| February | 14 | Life Goes On | Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow | ECM Records | [5][6][7][8] | |
| 21 | From This Place | Pat Metheny | Nonesuch Records | [9] | ||
| March | 20 | Elegant Traveller | Jocelyn Gould | [10] | ||
| April | 10 | Iron Starlet | Connie Han | Mack Avenue Records | [11][12] | |
| June | 12 | Angels Around | Kurt Rosenwinkel | [13] | ||
| 20 | Swallow Tales | John Scofield and Steve Swallow | ECM Records | [14] | ||
| July | 10 | RoundAgain | Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade | Nonesuch | [15] | |
| August | 7 | Just Coolin' | Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers | Blue Note Records | recorded in 1959. | [16] |
| 21 | Source | Nubya Garcia | Concord | [17][18] | ||
| 28 | The Call Within | Tigran Hamasyan | Nonesuch | [19] |
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- January 10 – Wolfgang Dauner, 84, German jazz pianist[20]
- February 10 – Lyle Mays, 66, American jazz fusion keyboardist (Pat Metheny Group)[21]
- February 16 – Graeme Allwright, 93, New Zealand-French folk and jazz singer-songwriter[22]
- February 18 – Jon Christensen, 76m Norwegian jazz drummer[23]
- March 2 – Susan Weinert, 54, German jazz fusion guitarist (cancer)[24]
- March 6 – McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist[25]
- March 10 – Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine jazz saxophonist (COVID-19)[26]
- 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[27]
- October 31 – Marc Fosset, 71, French jazz guitarist[28]
- November 1 – Pedro Iturralde, 91, Spanish jazz saxophonist[29]
- November 7 – Cándido Camero, 99, Cuban jazz percussionist[30]
- November 11 – Andrew White, 78, American jazz saxophonist[31]
- November 26 – Allan Botschinsky, 80, Danish jazz trumpeter[32]
- December 30 – Eugene Wright, 97, American jazz bassist (Dave Brubeck Quartet)[33]
- Sue Crawford (25 September 2020). "Sixty Seconds: Gregory Porter on losing his brother to Covid, waking up the Queen and a love of hats". Metro. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- Immanuel Wilkins signs to Blue Note: Immanuel Wilkins signs to Blue Note, accessdate: May 26, 2023
- "Newport Jazz Festival Announces Newport Jazz Revival 2020". What's Up New?. July 23, 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- Is That So? - John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain | Releases | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-07-01
- "Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow – Life Goes On (ECM)". JAZZIZ Magazine. 24 May 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- Whitehaed, Kevin (February 24, 2020). "Carla Bley's Trio Brings A Scaled-Down Dynamic To 'Life Goes On'". NPR. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- "LIFE GOES ON by CARLA BLEY, ANDY SHEPPARD, STEVE SWALLOW". ECM Records. 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- Gehr, Richard (27 February 2020). "Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow: Life Goes On". Relix. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- Layman, Will (April 13, 2020). "Pat Metheny Adds Strings to His Quartet on From This Place". PopMatters. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
- Jazz, All About (2020-04-08). "Jocelyn Gould: Elegant Traveler album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
- DownBeat Reviews: DownBeat Reviews, accessdate: June 19, 2023
- Connie Han: Iron Starlet album review @ All About Jazz: Connie Han: Iron Starlet album review @ All About Jazz, accessdate: June 19, 2023
- Angels Around - Kurt Rosenwinkel | Releases | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-07-01
- Cohen, Aaron (August 2020). "John Scofield: Swallow Tales (ECM)". DownBeat. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- Pitchfork: Nubya Garcia: Source Album Review | Pitchfork, accessdate: June 19, 2023
- Homewood, Ben (26 August 2020). "On The Radar: Nubya Garcia". Music Week. Archived from the original on 25 October 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
- Tamarkin, Jeff (September 15, 2020). "Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within (Nonesuch)". JazzTimes. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- Schleider, Tim (10 January 2020). "Stuttgarter Jazzlegende / Wolfgang Dauner ist tot". Stuttgarter Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- West, Michael J. (11 February 2020). "Lyle Mays 1953–2020". JazzTimes. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- "Le chanteur folk Graeme Allwright est mort". Le Monde. 16 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
- "Jon Christensen er død". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 18 February 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- Jacobi, Elke (5 March 2020). "Die begnadete Gitarristin starb im Alter von 54 Jahren: Susan Weinert ist tot". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- "McCoy Tyner 1938 – 2020". JazzTimes. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- "El saxofonista argentino Marcelo Peralta murió por coronavirus en Madrid" (in Spanish). perfil.com. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- "Toshinori Kondo, Trailblazing Modern Trumpeter, Dies At 71". NPR. 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
- "Décès du guitariste Marc Fosset". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- "Muere Pedro Iturralde, gran maestro del jazz español" (in Spanish). ABC. 1 November 2020. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020.
- Genzlinger, Neil (2020-11-22). "Cándido Camero, Conga Master Who Transformed Jazz, Dies at 99". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
- West, Michael J. (13 November 2020). "Andrew White, Prolific Multi-Instrumentalist, Scholar and Washington, D.C. Legend, Dies at 78". wbgo.com. Archived from the original on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- "Dansk musiklegende død" (in Danish). 29 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- Ben Beaumont-Thomas (1 Jan 2021). "Eugene Wright, bassist with classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, dies aged 97". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 Jan 2021.
