# 1999 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1999.

## Events
### March

* 26 – The 26th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 26 – 28).

### May

* 13 – The 27th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 13 – 29).
* 21 – The 28th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 21 – 24).

### June

* 30 – The 35th Kongsberg Jazzfestival started in Kongsberg, Norway (June 30 – July 3).

### July

* 1 – The 20th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (July 1 – 11).
* 2 – The 9th Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria (July 2 – 10).
* 3 – The 33rd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 3 – 18).
* 10
** The 24th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 10 – 12).
** The 34th Pori Jazz started in Pori, Finland (July 10 – 19).
* 11 – The 52nd Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France (July 11 – 18).
* 12 – The 39th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (July 12 – 17).
* 21 – The 34th San Sebastian Jazz Festival started in San Sebastian, Spain (July 22 – 27).

### August

* 9 – The 14th Oslo Jazzfestival started in Oslo, Norway (August 9 – 15).
* 11 – The 13th Sildajazz started in Haugesund, Norway (August 11 – 15).
* 13 – The 16th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (August 13 – 15).

### September

* 17 – The 42nd Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 17 – 19).

### Unknown date

* "Don't Know Why" by Jesse Harris appears on his 1999 album, Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos.
* The Magic City Jazz Orchestra (MCJO) American jazz ensemble is founded.
* The Pulitzer Prize Board bestows a special posthumous honor on Duke Ellington.
* WEAA is named 1999 Jazz Station of the Year by Gavin magazine.
* Atomic, Norwegian / Swedish jazz band formed.
* Radioactive Sago Project, a Filipino jazz rock band formed in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
* III Records, a record label based in Japan is founded.
* Zoe Rahman, British jazz composer and pianist, won the "Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year" Award.

## Album releases
### July

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes | Ref. |
| 27 | The Art of the Song | Charlie Haden | Polygram Records | Produced by Charlie Haden, Ruth Cameron | |

### With Wikipedia articles

* 1999 Remixes, the third compilation album released by British acid jazz band Jamiroquai
* April Kisses, by Bucky Pizzarelli
* Contemporary Jazz, by the Branford Marsalis Quartet
* Continuance, by jazz fusion band Greetings From Mercury, recorded live at Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
* Live at the Floating Jazz Festival, from the 1997 jazz festival of the same name by violinist Johnny Frigo and his quartet.
* Peculiar Situation, a smooth jazz studio album by Earl Klugh
* Synergy, studio album by jazz-fusion group Dave Weckl Band
* Time's Mirror, big band album by jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger, Tom Harrell
* Without Kuryokhin, American jazz multi-instrumentalist Kenny Millions and Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide.
* Barefoot on the Beach, by American smooth jazz vocalist Michael Franks.

### Other

* Jane Ira Bloom: The Red Quartets
* Steve Coleman: The Sonic Language of Myth – Believing Learning Knowing
* Marty Ehrlich: Malinke's Dance
* Bill Dixon: Papyrus I
* Guillermo Gregorio: Red Cubed
* Paul Dunmall: Bebop Starburst
* Matthew Shipp: Expansion, Power, Release
* Misha Mengelberg: Solo
* Marilyn Crispell: ⋅Red
* Marilyn Crispell: Blue
* Evan Parker: After Appleby
* Joshua Redman: Beyond
* Maybe Monday: Saturn's Finger
* Richard Lee Johnson: Fingertip Ship (Metro Blue)

## Deaths
### January

* 6 – Michel Petrucciani, French pianist and composer (born 1962).
* 7 – Fred Hopkins, American upright bassist (born 1947).

### February

* 1 – Julius Wechter, American vibraphonist and composer (born 1935).
* 5 – Colin Purbrook, English pianist, upright bassist, and trumpeter (born 1936).
* 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (born 1923).
* 8 – Richard B. Boone, American jazz musician, trombonist, and vocalist (born 1930).
* 7 – Bobby Troup, American pianist and songwriter (born 1918).
* 11 – Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone (born 1922).
* 16 – Betty Roché, American singer (born 1918).
* 19
** Lauderic Caton, Trinidadian guitarist (born 1910).
** Trudy Desmond, Canadian singer (born 1945).
* 27 – Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer (born 1934).

### March

* 3 – John Roache, American pianist and composer of Ragtime (born 1940).
* 4 – Teddy McRae, American tenor saxophonist and arranger (born 1908).
* 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor (born 1916).
* 22 – Rick Fay, American clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1926).
* 29 – Joe Williams, American vocalist (born 1918).

### April

* 1 – Jesse Stone, American pianist and songwriter (born 1901).
* 3 – Herman Foster, American pianist (born 1928).
* 6 – Red Norvo, American vibraphonist (born 1908).
* 21 – Charles Rogers, American film actor and musician (born 1904).
* 23 – Melba Liston, American trombonist, composer, and musical arranger (born 1926).
* 27 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (born 1922).

### May

* 8 – Leon Thomas, American avant-garde jazz singer (born 1937).
* 18 – Freddy Randall, English jazz trumpeter and bandleader (born 1921).
* 19 – Candy Candido, American bassist and vocalist (born 1913).

### June

* 2 – Andy Simpkins, American bassist (born 1932).
* 5
** Ernie Wilkins, American tenor saxophonist (born 1922).
** Mel Tormé, American singer (born 1925).
* 8 – Rosy McHargue, American clarinetist (born 1902).
* 15 – Fausto Papetti, Italian alto saxophonist (born 1923).

### July

* 9 – Talib Dawud, American trumpeter (born 1923).
* 11 – Helen Forrest, American singer (born 1917).
* 22 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer (born 1958).
* 27 – Sweets Edison, American trumpeter (born 1915).

### August

* 3 – Leroy Vinnegar, American bassist (born 1928).
* 24 – Warren Covington, American trombonist (born 1921).
* 25 – Spiegle Willcox, American trombonist (born 1903).

### September

* 6 – Arnold Fishkind, American bassist (born 1919).
* 8 – Moondog, American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor (born 1916).
* 30 – Anna Mae Winburn, African-American vocalist and bandleader (born 1913).

### October

* 2 – Sal Salvador, American bebop jazz guitarist and a prominent music educator (born 1925).
* 4 – Art Farmer, American trumpeter and flugelhorn player (born 1928).
* 8 – Manfredo Fest, Brazilian pianist and keyboardist (born 1936).
* 9 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphonist (born 1923).
* 18 – Tony Crombie, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader, and composer (born 1925).
* 21 – LaMont Johnson, American pianist who played in the hard bop and post-bop genres (born 1941).
* 31 – Wyatt Ruther, American upright bassist (born 1923).

### November

* 8 – Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (born 1941).
* 13
** John Benson Brooks, American jazz pianist, songwriter, arranger, and composer (born 1917).
** Donald Mills, American singer, The Mills Brothers (born 1915).
* 26
** Clifford Jarvis, American hard bop and free jazz drummer (born 1941).
** Henry Nemo, American musician, songwriter, and actor (born 1909).
* 30 – Don "Sugarcane" Harris, American violinist (born 1938).

### December

* 2 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (born 1925).
* 4 – Edward Vesala, Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer (born 1945).
* 7 – Kenny Baker, English trumpeter, cornetist, flugelhornist, and composer (born 1921).
* 11 – Charles Earland, American jazz composer, organist and saxophonist in the soul jazz idiom (born 1941).
* 14 – Walt Levinsky, American big band and orchestral player, composer, arranger, and band leader (born 1929).
* 17 – Grover Washington Jr., American saxophonist (born 1943).
* 26 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer and songwriter (born 1942).
* 28 – Terry Rosen, American guitarist, concert promoter and radio DJ (born 1939).
* 30 – Sam Ranelli, American drummer (born 1920).

## Births
### October

* 3 – Tom Ibarra, French guitarist and composer.