# 1965 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1965.

## Events
### July

* 1 – The 12th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 1 – 4).

### Unknown dates

* Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in larger premises at 47 Frith Street, in London's Soho district.
* Carla Bley divorced Paul Bley.

## Album releases

* Andrew Hill: Compulsion
* Archie Shepp: Fire Music
* Ben Webster: Stormy Weather
* Bobby Hutcherson: Components
* Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue
* Don Cherry: Complete Communion
* Eddie Palmieri: Mozambique
* Frank Wright: Frank Wright Trio
* Gabor Szabo: Gypsy
* George Finola: Jazz Of The Chosen Few
* Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
* Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues
* Horace Silver: Song for My Father
* John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
* John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
* Lee Morgan: Cornbread
* Lee Morgan: The Gigolo
* Marion Brown: Marion Brown Quartet
* Milford Graves: Percussion Ensemble
* Wes Montgomery: Bumpin'
* New York Art Quartet: Mohawk
* Ornette Coleman: Chappaqua Suite
* Patty Waters: Sings
* Prince Lasha: Inside Story
* Roland Kirk: Rip, Rig and Panic
* Roswell Rudd: Roswell Rudd
* Sam Rivers: Contours
* Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
* Sun Ra: The Magic City
* Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
* Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye
* Wayne Shorter: Soothsayer

## Deaths
### January

* 29 – Jack Hylton, English pianist, composer, band leader, and impresario (born 1892).

### February

* 12 – Bonnie Wetzel, American upright bassist (born 1926).
* 15 – Nat King Cole, American pianist and singer (born 1919).

### March

* 8 – Tadd Dameron, American composer, arranger, and pianist (born 1917).

### May

* 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (born 1911).
* 14 – Joe Sanders, American pianist, singer, and bandleader (born 1896).
* 24 – Denzil Best, American percussionist and composer (born 1917).

### June

* 25 – Keg Purnell, American drummer (born 1915).

### July

* 1 – Claude Thornhill, American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (born 1909).
* 4 – Valdemar Eiberg, Danish musician and orchestra leader (born 1892).
* 8 – Willie Dennis, American trombonist (born 1926).
* 14 – Spencer Williams, African-American pianist, singer, and composer (born 1889).

### August

* 10 – Freddie Slack, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1910).

### September

* 15 – Steve Brown, American upright bassist (born 1896).

### October

* 10 – Gerorge Tucker, American upright bassist (born 1927).
* 27 – Edythe Wright, American singer (born 1914).
* 28 – Earl Bostic, American alto saxophonist (born 1913).

### November

* 6 – Clarence Williams, American pianist, vocalist, and composer (born 1898).
* 14 – Buster Harding, Canadian-born American pianist (born 1912).
* 18 – Lou Black, American banjo player (born 1901).
* 21 – Cecil Brower, American violinist (perforated ulcer) (born 1914).
* Warren Tartaglia, American saxophonist (born 1944).

### December

* 2 – Hank D'Amico, American clarinetist (born 1915).
* 11 – Dave Barbour, American guitarist (born 1912).
* 20 – Charlie Burse, American ukulele, banjo, and guitar player (born 1901).
* 26 – Peter Packay, Belgian trumpeter, arranger, and composer (born 1904).

## Births
### January

* 1 – Miki Higashino, Japanese pianist and video game composer.
* 3 – Sheila Majid, Malaysian singer.
* 19 – Antonio Faraò, Italian pianist.

### February

* 13 – Ole Mathisen, Norwegian saxophonist.
* 24 – Tone Åse, Norwegian singer.
* 27 – Joey Calderazzo, American pianist.

### March

* 2 – Wolfgang Muthspiel, Austrian guitarist and record label owner.
* 8 – Karin Mensah, Cape Verdean singer.
* 12 – Liv Stoveland, Norwegian singer.
* 22 – David Linx, Belgian singer and songwriter.
* 24 – Patrick Scales, British-German bass guitarist.

### April

* 7 – Sylvain Luc, French guitarist.
* 10 – Omar Sosa, Cuban composer, bandleader, and pianist.
* 20 – Darko Jurković, Croatian guitarist and composer.
* 29 – Rain Sultanov, Azerbaijani saxophonist.

### May

* 3 – Magnus Öström, Swedish drummer, Esbjörn Svensson Trio or e.s.t.
* 10 – Philip Harper, American trumpeter.
* 16 – Javon Jackson, American tenor saxophonist.

### June

* 3
** Derrick Gardner, American trumpeter.
** Mirko Fait, Italian saxophonist and composer.
* 9 – Helge Sunde, Norwegian trombonist and multi-instrumentalist.
* 27 – Magnus Broo, Swedish trumpeter, Atomic.

### July

* 5 – Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli pianist.
* 16 – Odd André Elveland, Norwegian saxophonist.
* 19 – Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist.
* 28 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American trombonist and record producer.

### August

* 4 – Terri Lyne Carrington, American drummer, composer, singer, record producer, and entrepreneur.
* 6 – Ravi Coltrane, American saxophonist.
* 21 – Leon Parker, American percussionist and composer.
* 29 – Mark d'Inverno, British pianist, composer, and computer scientist.

### September

* 5 – Björn Meyer, Swedish bassist and composer.
* 11 – Jesse Davis, American saxophonist.
* 24 – Njål Ølnes, Norwegian saxophonist.
* 28 – Hans Ulrik, Danish saxophonist, and composer.

### October

* 9 – Geir Lysne, Norwegian saxophonist and orchestra leader.
* 12 – Luis Bonilla, American trombonist, producer, composer and educator.
* 18 – Curtis Stigers, American vocalist, saxophonist, guitarist, and songwriter.

### November

* 2 – Andrew D'Angelo, American saxophonist.
* 10 – Mark Turner, American saxophonist.
* 21 – Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter.

### December

* 5 – Hildegunn Øiseth, Norwegian trumpeter and hornist.
* 7 – Wolfgang Haffner, German drummer.
* 29 – Danilo Perez, Panamanian pianist and composer.
* 30 – Ron Affif, American guitarist.

### Unknown date

* Arturo Tappin, Barbadian saxophonist and composer.
* Bradley Joseph, American pianist.
* Helge Andreas Norbakken, Norwegian percussionist.
* Kostas Theodorou, Greek upright bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.