1965 in jazz

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

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.