Overview of the events of 1959 in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1959 .
Events [ ]
May [ ]
4 – 1st Annual Grammy Awards
Ella Fitzgerald awarded Best Vocal Performance, Female for the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook , and Best Jazz Performance, Individual for the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook .
Count Basie awarded Best Jazz Performance, Group and Best Performance by a Dance Band for the album Basie .
Billy May awarded Best Performance by an Orchestra for the album Billy May's Big Fat Brass .[1]
July [ ]
August [ ]
7-9 - Playboy Jazz Festival - First indoor Jazz Festival. Chicago , Illinois . [3]
25 – Between sets at Birdland in New York City , Miles Davis is beaten by police and jailed.[4]
November [ ]
The George Lewis Ragtime Jazz Band in New Orleans, 1950. Left to right:
Jim Robinson , trombone;
Alcide Pavageau , string bass; Elmer Talbert, trumpet;
George Lewis , clarinet;
Lawrence Marrero , banjo
Album releases [ ]
By Artist Name
Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball Takes Charge , In San Francisco (Riverside)
Cannonball Adderley & John Coltrane – Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (Mercury)
Chet Baker – Chet (Riverside)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Holiday for Skins (Blue Note)
Dave Brubeck – Time Out (album) (Columbia)
Donald Byrd – Fuego , Byrd in Hand (Blue Note)
Sonny Clark – My Conception (Blue Note)
Ornette Coleman – Tomorrow Is the Question! (OJC) The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic)
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (Columbia)
Walter Davis – Davis Cup (album) (Blue Note)
Kenny Dorham – Quiet Kenny (New Jazz)
Duke Ellington – The Ellington Suites (OJC) Jazz Party , Festival Session , Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia)
Bill Evans Trio – Portrait in Jazz (Riverside)
Jimmy Giuffre – The Easy Way (album) (Verve)
Benny Golson – Gone with Golson , Groovin' with Golson (OJC)
Chico Hamilton – The Three Faces of Chico (Warner Bros.) Gongs East! (Discovery)
Coleman Hawkins – Hawk Eyes , (OJC) Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio (Prestige)
Johnny Hodges and Duke Ellington – Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues , Side by Side (Verve)
Milt Jackson and John Coltrane – Bags & Trane (Atlantic)
Wynton Kelly – Kelly Blue (Contemporary)
Stan Kenton – Standards in Silhouette (Capitol)
Yusef Lateef – Cry! – Tender (Prestige)
Abbey Lincoln – Abbey Is Blue (Riverside/OJC)
Jackie McLean – New Soil , Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note)
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um , Mingus Dynasty (Columbia), Blues and Roots (Atlantic)
Blue Mitchell – Blue Soul (Riverside)
Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Alone in San Francisco , The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall , 5 by Monk by 5 (Riverside/OJC)
Wes Montgomery – The Wes Montgomery Trio (Riverside/OJC)
Gerry Mulligan – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Verve)
Oliver Nelson – Meet Oliver Nelson (OJC)
Art Pepper – Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary/OJC)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra – Jazz in Silhouette (Saturn)
Max Roach – The Many Sides of Max (Mercury)
George Russell – New York, N.Y. (album) (Impulse)
Horace Silver – Blowin' the Blues Away , Finger Poppin' (Blue Note)
Jimmy Smith – The Sermon! (Blue Note)
Frank Strozier – Fantastic Frank Strozier (Vee Jay)
Dinah Washington - What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! (Mercury)
Ben Webster – Ben Webster and Associates (Verve)
Curtis Fuller - Blues-ette (Savoy)
Standards [ ]
Deaths [ ]
January
3 – Ed Cuffee , American trombonist (born 1902 ).
30 – Boyce Brown , American dixieland alto saxophonist (born 1910 ).
February
14 – Baby Dodds , American drummer (born 1898).
March
15 – Lester Young , American tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (born 1909 ).
May
5 – Hal McIntyre , American saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader (born 1914 ).
14 – Sidney Bechet , American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer (born 1897).
June
5 – Lawrence Marrero , American banjoist (born 1900 ).
23 – Boris Vian , French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer (born 1920 ).
July
11 – Shadow Wilson , American drummer (born 1919 ).
17 – Billie Holiday , American singer nicknamed "Lady Day" (born 1915 ).
September
17 – Omer Simeon , American clarinetist (born 1902 ).
October
14 – Alphonse Trent , American jazz pianist and territory band leader (born 1905 ).
16 – Minor Hall , American drummer (born 1897).
December
2 – Sidney Desvigne , American trumpeter (born 1893).
10 – Avery Parrish , American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (born 1917 ).
13 – Charlie Johnson , American bandleader and pianist (born 1891).
Births [ ]
January
11 – Simon Nabatov , Russian pianist.
14 – Nguyên Lê , French-Vietnamese guitarist.
16 – Sade Adu , British singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer.
20 – Antoine Hervé , French composer and pianist.
24 – Nils Mathisen , Norwegian keyboardist.
28 – Bill Ware , American vibraphonist.
February
1 – Ottmar Liebert , German guitarist, songwriter and producer
9 – Russel Walder , American oboist.
12 – Omar Hakim , American drummer.
27
Akira Jimbo , Japanese drummer, Casiopea .
, American drummer.
28 – Phil Roy , American singer.
March
10 – Rita Marcotulli , Italian pianist and composer.
16 – John Lindberg , American upright bassist.
18 – Joe Locke , American vibraphonist, composer, and educator.
21 – Renato D'Aiello , Italian saxophonist.
25 – Per Hillestad , Norwegian drummer.
30 – Nils Jansen , Norwegian saxophonist and clarinetist.
April
5
Elin Rosseland , Norwegian singer, bandleader, and composer.
John Parricelli , English guitarist.
10 – Brian Setzer , American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
18 – Salman Gambarov , Azerbaijani pianist and composer.
19 – Rebecca Jenkins , Canadian actress and singer.
23 – Thilo Berg , German drummer.
25
, Turkish percussionist and vocalist.
Paul Goldberg , American drummer.
27
May
9 – Dennis Chambers , American drummer.
14 – Virginia Mayhew , American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
23 – Ken Peplowski , American clarinetist and tenor saxophonist.
28 – Eddie Parker , English flautist and composer.
June
9 – Gregg Bissonette , American drummer.
14 – Marcus Miller , American bassist.
15 – Vicki Genfan , American American singer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist.
19
Billy Drummond , American drummer.
Roberto Magris , Italian pianist and composer.
29 – Rene Van Verseveld , Dutch musician, songwriter, recording engineer, composer, and record producer.
July
10 – Anjani , American singer-songwriter and pianist.
16 – Joanna MacGregor , British concert pianist, conductor, composer, and festival curator.
23 – Alan Barnes , English clarinettist and saxophonist.
27 – Jeff Harnar , American singer.
31 – Stanley Jordan , American guitarist and pianist.
August
1 – Otomo Yoshihide , Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist.
6 – Sigurd Køhn , Norwegian saxophonist (died 2004 ).
7 – Patrick Defossez , Belgian composer, pianist and improviser.
9 – Frank Lacy , American trombonist, Mingus Big Band .
11 – Russ Gershon , American saxophonist and composer.
14 – Tony Monaco , American organist.
16 – Ellery Eskelin , American tenor saxophonist.
20 – Gaute Storaas , Norwegian bass guitarist and composer.
27 – Frode Fjellheim , Norwegian keyboardist and joker.
29 – , Portuguese composer, violinist, violist and electronic musician.
September
5 – Patrick Yandall , American guitarist.
13 – Sheldon Reynolds , American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.
21 – Corinne Drewery , English singer-songwriter.
22 – Tony Reedus , American drummer (died 2008 ).
26 – François Bourassa , Canadian pianist.
October
12 – Michael Philip Mossman , trumpeter.
15 – Erik Vermeulen , Belgian pianist.
18 – Jimmy Bosch , Puerto Rican-American trombonist composer and bandleader.
19 – Ronnie Burrage , American drummer.
20 – Ole Hamre , Norwegian drummer.
21 – Cleveland Watkiss , British virtuoso vocalist, actor, and composer.
November
1 – Conrad Herwig , American trombonist.
3 – Mary Ann Redmond , American singer.
18 – Cindy Blackman Santana , American drummer.
20 – Drew Gress , American upright bassist and composer.
30 – Kris Defoort , Belgian pianist and composer.
December
13 – Staffan William-Olsson , Swedish guitarist and composer.
16 – Graham Clark , English violinist.
22
Del Rey , American singer and guitarist.
John Patitucci , American upright bassist.
25
Dale Barlow , Australian saxophonist, flautist, and composer.
Zim Ngqawana , South African flautist and saxophonist (died 2011 ).
30
Kåre Thomsen , Norwegian guitarist.
Paul Jackson Jr. , American guitarist.
Unknown date
Albert Beger , Israeli saxophonist, flutist, and academy lecturer.
Antonio Ciacca , Italian pianist.
Bjørn Jenssen , Norwegian drummer
Dominique Di Piazza , French bassist.
Kevyn Lettau , Brazilian vocalist.
Sue Terry , American saxophonist and composer.
Sweet Baby J'ai , American singer.
Tahir Aydoğdu , Turkish virtuoso qanun (kanun) player
Ted Rosenthal , American pianist.
Awards [ ]
See also [ ]
1950s portal
Jazz portal
References [ ]
Bibliography [ ]
The New Real Book , Volume I . Sher Music. 1988. ISBN 0-9614701-4-3 .
The New Real Book, Volume II . Sher Music. 1991. ISBN 0-9614701-7-8 .
The New Real Book, Volume III . Sher Music. 1995. ISBN 1-883217-30-X .
The Real Book , Volume I (6th ed.). Hal Leonard. 2004. ISBN 0-634-06038-4 .
The Real Book, Volume II (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2007. ISBN 1-4234-2452-2 .
The Real Book, Volume III (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06136-4 .
The Real Jazz Book . Warner Bros. ISBN 978-91-85041-36-7 .
The Real Vocal Book , Volume I . Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06080-5 .
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