# 2024 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2024.

## Events
### January

* January 27 – Domi and JD Beck tour in Singapore

### February

* February 4 – The 2024 Grammy awards occur.
** A new category, "Best Alternative Jazz Album" is added. The first winner is Meshell Ndegeocello for her 2023 album The Omnichord Real Book
** "Best Jazz Instrumental Album" is awarded to Billy Childs for his 2023 album The Winds of Change
** "Best Latin Jazz Album" is awarded to Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo for their 2023 album El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2
** "Best Vocal Jazz Album" is awarded to Nicole Zuraitis for her 2023 album How Love Begins,
** "Best Traditional Pop Vocal album is awarded to Laufey for her 2023 album “Bewitched,”
** "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album" is awarded to the Count Basie Orchestra for their 2023 album Basie Swings The Blues
** "Best Jazz Performance" is awarded to Samara Joy for her song Tight

### July

* July 9 – Kamasi Washington starts his first ever UK tour, at a bar in Herne Hill, UK

### October

* October 11–20 – Headliners at the Stockholm Jazz Festival include Bill Frisell, Julius Rodriguez, Sona Jobarteh, Gogo Penguin and The Headhunters.

## Albums

| Month | Day | Album | Artist | Label |
| January | 19 | Cloudward | Mary Halvorson | Nonesuch Records |
| January | 19 | Foreverland | Keyon Harrold | Concord Jazz |
| January | 19 | Technically Acceptable | Ethan Iverson | Blue Note Records |
| January | 26 | The Room | Sam Gendel and Fabiano do Nascimento | Real World |
| January | 26 | Trust the process | Filippo Ieraci, Simone Serafini and Jacopo Zanette | Amerio Stefano edizioni musicali |
| February | 2 | Compassion | Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey | ECM Records |
| February | 9 | Nublues | Joel Ross | Blue Note Records |
| March | 1 | Speak to Me | Julian Lage | Blue Note Records |
| March | 8 | Visions | Norah Jones | Blue Note Records |
| March | 8 | Eagle's Point | Chris Potter with Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, and John Patitucci | Edition Records |
| April | 5 | Echoes of the Inner Prophet | Melissa Aldana | Blue Note Records |
| April | 12 | Who Killed AI? | Kenny Garrett and Svoy | Mack Avenue Records |
| May | 3 | Fearless Movement | Kamasi Washington | Young |
| May | 31 | Night Reign | Arooj Aftab | Verve Records |
| August | 9 | Milton + Esperanza | Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding | Concord Records |
| September | 27 | Planetarium | Ben Monder | |
| September | 27 | Against the Fall of Night | Sungazer | |
| October | 24 | Portrait of Right Now | Jocelyn Gould | |

## All critically reviewed albums ranked

Metacritic
| Number | Artist | Album | Average score | Number of reviews |
| 1 | Charles Lloyd | The Sky Will Be There Tomorrow | 95 | 6 |
| 2 | Julian Lage | Speak to Me | 91 | 4 |
| 3 | Arooj Aftab | Night Reign | 89 | 12 |
| 4 | Blue Lab Beats | Blue Eclipse | 87 | 4 |
| 5 | Vijay Iyer | Compassion | 86 | 6 |
| 6 | Mary Halvorson | Cloudward | 84 | 8 |
| 6 | Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento | Milton + Esperanza | 84 | 5 |

## Deaths

* January 25 – Bruno Amstad, Swiss jazz singer, 59 (cancer)
* January 26
** Dean Brown, American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician, 68 (cancer)
** Michel Hausser, French jazz vibraphonist, 96
* January 29 – Tony Cedras, South African jazz musician, 71
* March 3 – Eleanor Collins, 104, Canadian jazz singer and TV host
* April 5 – Phil Nimmons, Canadian jazz clarinetist, 100
* April 7 – Joe Viera, German saxophonist and festival founder, 91
* May 7 – Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger, 88
* June 9 – Alex Riel, Danish jazz and rock drummer, 83
* August 3 – Shaun Martin, American jazz keyboardist from Snarky Puppy, 45
* August 23 – Russell Malone, American jazz guitarist, 60
* November 12 – Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer, 99