2024 in jazz

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

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

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 7 – Joe Viera, German saxophonist and festival founder, 91
 * May 7 – Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger, 88