User:Dr. Blofeld/Timeline of jazz history

1957

• The Concorde Club is opened in Southampton, England by Cole Mathieson.
• The Lenox School of Jazz, a summer jazz school in Massachusetts, is founded.
• September 15 - Coltrane records Blue Train at Van Gelder, which after its release in January 1958 becomes one of his most successful albums. The tunes "Blue Train", "Moment's Notice" and "Lazy Bird" become jazz standards.
• December 8 - The Sound of Jazz, a one-hour live telecast from CBS Studio 58 in New York City, stars Count Basie and other Swing era musicians as well as modernists such as Thelonious Monk and Jimmy Giuffre. One of the first full-length jazz programs on American network television, it featured Billie Holiday singing "Fine and Mellow" with a brief but classic blues solo by Lester Young as Holiday watched admiringly.

1958

• August 7 - Monk records Misterioso live at the Five Spot Café in New York City with Johnny Griffin.
• October 30 -
  Jazz Messengers record Moanin' at Van Gelder. It becomes well known for its title track, "Moanin'", which becomes a standard, and the album has been cited as archetypal hard bop
  .
• Art D'Lugoff opens the Village Gate club in Greenwich Village.

1959

• January - Ealing Jazz Club opens on The Broadway, Ealing, in the west of London.
• March 2 - The tracks "
  So What", "Freddie Freeloader", and "Blue in Green" are recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio for the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue
  , which later becomes the best-selling jazz album of all time.
• March 15 - Hours after arriving back in New York City from an abbreviated European tour, Lester Young dies at age 49 from cardiac arrest due to malnutrition and cirrhosis of the liver.
• April 22 - The tracks "
  Flamenco Sketches
  " are recorded for Kind of Blue.
• May 4-5 - Coltrane records "
  Mr. P.C.", "Countdown", "Cousin Mary", "Syeeda's Song Flute" and "Spiral" for his album Giant Steps
  (1960). The tune Giant Steps, extremely fast and complex with 3 different tonal centers, becomes one of the most challenging tunes to play in the jazz repertoire.
• May 22 - Ornette Coleman records his third album, The Shape of Jazz to Come, which is universally praised and becomes a definitive album in the development of Free Jazz. It features the tune "Lonely Woman", which becomes a standard.
• July 17 - Billie Holiday dies from cirrhosis of the liver at age 44.
• August 25 - Davis is beaten by a New York City Police Department officer on the sidewalk in front of Birdland during an engagement at the club.
• October 30 -
  Gerrard Street in London's Soho
  district.
• December 2 - Coltrane records "Naima" for Giant Steps.

1960

• August - Chet Baker is arrested for possession of drugs in Lucca, Italy.
• September - The Golden River City Jazz Festival begins in Kortrijk, Belgium.

1961

• June 25 - The Bill Evans Trio records Sunday at the Village Vanguard live. The album is universally lauded after release in early October.
• July 6 - Two weeks after recording at the Vanguard with Evans and just four days after performing with Stan Getz at the Newport Jazz Festival, double bassist
  Canandaigua
  , New York.
• August 26-27 -
  Richmond Athletic Ground in the London suburb of Richmond. As blues and rock became more popular in the mid 1960s and 1970s it gradually evolves into a rock festival as a precursor to the Reading Festival
  .
• September 21 - The film Paris Blues premieres, starring Louis Armstrong, Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians to a score composed by Duke Ellington.
• December 31 - Founded in 1959, the Jazzhus Montmartre is reopened by Herluf Kamp-Larsen in new premises in Store Regnegade, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Moldejazz becomes the first jazz festival to be launched in Norway.

1962

• September 26 - Coltrane collaborates with Duke Ellington to record the album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane; the first track is Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood".

1963

• March 18-19 - Stan Getz, Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, singer Astrud Gilberto and pianist and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim record Getz/Gilberto in A&R Recording Studios in New York. Featuring bossa nova standards such as "The Girl from Ipanema", "Corcovado", "Desafinado" and "Só Danço Samba", it became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time and the first international album to win a Grammy for Album of the Year, in 1965.
• July 7 - Sonny Rollins performs in a quintet with his idol, Coleman Hawkins, at the Newport Jazz Festival. Later in the month, on July 15 and 18, they record the studio album Sonny Meets Hawk! in New York City.
• October 31 - Horace Silver starts recording the hard bop album Song for My Father at Van Gelder. There is a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silver, on the cover, and the title song, which is dedicated to him, has become a standard. Two other sessions on January 28 and October 26, 1964 completed the album recording, which was not released until late January 1965.
• December 14 - Dinah Washington dies from a lethal combination of secobarbital and amobarbital at age 39.

1964

• February 28 - Thelonious Monk becomes the fourth jazz musician—after Armstrong (1949), Brubeck (1954) and Ellington (1956)—to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
• December 9 - Coltrane records the devotional album A Love Supreme at Van Gelder. After release in January 1965 it becomes one of Coltrane's best-selling albums and one of the most critically acclaimed jazz albums of all time.
• Berliner Jazztage (Berlin Jazz Days) is founded in West Berlin by the Berliner Festspiele.

1965

• October 20-22 - Burt Bacharach, working with jazz musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes and Keith Christie, records the theme to the film Alfie (1966) at Twickenham Studios. It is a pop hit for Cilla Black but enters the jazz repertoire.

1966

• July - Chet Baker is badly beaten and has his teeth knocked out after performing at The Trident restaurant in Sausalito, near San Francisco. His playing never fully recovers and he was forced to take a long hiatus from his career as a professional jazz musician.
• The Pori Jazz Festival begins in the Finnish coastal city of Pori.
• Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts
  , a social club for members of a black musicians union, is founded in Philadelphia.

1967

• June 18 - The 1st
  Montreaux
  , Switzerland.
• July 17 - Coltrane dies of liver cancer at age 40 at
  Huntington Hospital
  on Long Island.
• July 21 - Coltrane's funeral takes place at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City, featuring performers such as the Albert Ayler Quartet and the Ornette Coleman Quartet. He is laid to rest at Pinelawn Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York.

1968

• May 16 - The Thomas Reichman documentary film about Charles Mingus, Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968, is released.
• The U.S. National Association of Jazz Education is established.

1970

• April 23-26 - The inaugural New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is held at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, and features a performance by Mahalia Jackson.
• The Baked Potato jazz club opens in Los Angeles.

1971

• July 6 - Louis Armstrong dies of a heart attack in his sleep in Corona, Queens, a month before his 70th birthday.
• August 6 - The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival is first held in Davenport, Iowa on the 40th anniversary of Beiderbecke's death.

1972

• February 19 - Lee Morgan is shot by his common-law wife Helen outside
  Slug's Saloon
  in New York and dies from his injuries at age 33.
• The first Stanford Jazz Workshop is held.

1973

• August 28 - Joe Pass records the album Virtuoso in MGM Recording Studios, Los Angeles. It is heralded as one of his best albums and one of the greatest and most influential solo jazz guitar albums of all time.
• December 19 - The
  Voss, Norway
  .

1974

• July 18 -
  Barney Kessell
  perform at Ronnie Scott's; the event is captured live by the BBC.
• October 1 - The Bimhuis concert hall opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1975

• January 24 - Keith Jarrett performs The Köln Concert at the Opera House in Cologne, Germany.
• November 30 - Jarrett releases The Köln Concert on the ECM label. Universally lauded, it eventually becomes the best-selling solo album in jazz history.

1979

• January 5 - Mingus dies at age 56 in
  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. His ashes are later scattered into the Ganges
  .
• May 25 - The Japanese jazz fusion group, Casiopea, formed in 1976, releases their debut album of the same name. Recorded between December 1978 and March 1979, it features guest performances from Michael and Randy Brecker and David Sanborn.
• July 1 - The 1st Copenhagen Jazz Festival is held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1980

• May 10 - The 1st Montreal International Jazz Festival opens, and later grows into the world's biggest jazz festival.
• June 4-8 - The Bill Evans Trio plays a four day stint at the Village Vanguard. It is released after his death in a 6 CD box set on Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings in 1996.
• September 15 - Bill Evans dies from
  peptic ulcer, bronchial pneumonia, and hepatitis
  in New York.
• December 5 -
  The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco
  , which becomes one of the most influential acoustic guitar albums of all time.

• September 30 - Danny Bensusan opens the
  Greenwich Village, New York City. The Nat Adderley
  Quintet performs on the opening night.

• February 23 - Wynton Marsalis becomes the only musician in history to win Grammy Awards in both jazz and classical music during the same year at the 25th Annual Grammy Awards.

1984

• August 17 - The inaugural Brecon Jazz Festival opens in Brecon, Wales, featuring Humphrey Lyttelton, George Melly, Bruce Turner and John Barnes.
• September 13 - The Jazz at the Lake: Lake George Jazz Weekend festival begins in Lake George, New York.

1985

• October 25 -
  Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, tying with Down and Out in America
  .

• Birdland opens in Hamburg, Germany.

1986

• October 3 - The film Round Midnight is released in the United States, directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet and Herbie Hancock, and numerous cameos from people such as Wayne Shorter. Gordon portrays "Dale Turner", a character who is based on both saxophonist Lester Young and pianist Bud Powell (piano). Though fictional, it is partly based on the memoir Dance of the Infidels by Francis Paudras, a man who was a friend of Powell's during his period in Paris.
• The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz opens in Washington, D.C.

1987

• August 3 - Jazz at Lincoln Center holds its inaugural concert at Alice Tully Hall.
• The Jazz Journalists Association is established.
• Vortex Jazz Club opens on Stoke Newington Church Street in Hackney, London.
• The Center for International Performance and Exhibition (known as HotHouse) is opened by Marguerite Horberg at 1565 N. Milwaukee Ave in Chicago.

1988

• May 13 - Chet Baker falls to his death from his second-story room in Hotel Prins Hendrik, Amsterdam and is found dead on the street. Heroin and cocaine are found in his room and his death is later ruled an accident.
• September 30 -
  Best Actor award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
  .
• October 20 - a Charlotte Zwerin-directed, Clint Eastwood-produced documentary about Monk, Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser, is released.
• November 26 - The Blue Note Tokyo jazz club opens in Tokyo, Japan.

1989

• January 1 - Mark Levine's The Jazz Piano Book, a definitive text book for jazz piano education is first published.
• May 1989 - The Jazz Foundation of America is established and begins hosting "A Great Night in Harlem," annually in May.
• August 18 - The International Association for Jazz Education is first incorporated as a non-profit association.

1990

• December -
  The Jazz Café opens in Camden
  , London.

1991

• September 28 - Miles Davis dies from pneumonia in Santa Monica, California at age 65.

1992

• September 15 - Joshua Redman records his debut album in Skyline Studios, New York.
• September 24 - Richard Cook's and Brian Morton's The Penguin Guide to Jazz, a detailed guide to jazz recordings, is first published by Penguin Books.

1993

• The Esbjörn Svensson Trio consisting of pianist Esbjörn Svensson, double bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström is formed.

1994

• May 23 - Joe Pass dies from liver cancer in Los Angeles.
• June - Larry Carlton begins recording Larry & Lee, a collaboration with fellow jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour.
• October 31 - New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park is formally registered in New Orleans to celebrate the evolution of jazz.

1995

• January 22-25 - Wynton Marsalis records the album Blood on the Fields, which in 1997 becomes the only jazz album to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

1997

• The
  Abraham D. Sofaer at 104 East 126th Street in East Harlem
  .
• May 18 - Yoshi's jazz club reopens in Jack London Square in the Port of Oakland, California.

1998

• May 14 - Sinatra dies of a heart attack at age 82 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
• May 20 - Sinatra's funeral, attended by 400 people, with thousands more onlookers, is held at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, California. He is interred at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City.

2005

• March 5-7 - the inaugural
  Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival is held at Jakarta Convention Center
  .
• October 14 - Ornette Coleman records Sound Grammar live in Ludwigshafen, Germany. It goes on to win the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
• The Kasper Collin documentary My Name Is Albert Ayler is released to critical acclaim.

2007

• April 16 - Coltrane is posthumously awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Award for his contribution to music.

2008

• June 14 - Jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson dies in a scuba diving accident on the island of Ingarö, near Stockholm, Sweden.

2009

• The Blue Whale Jazz Club is opened by jazz vocalist Joon Lee at Weller Plaza on Onizuka St. in Downtown Los Angeles.

2010

• December 6 - Turner Classic Movies airs Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way, a Clint Eastwood-produced documentary film about Dave Brubeck in celebration of his 90th birthday.

2011

June - The inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival is held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.

2016

• January 4 - The John Scheinfeld documentary
  Denzil Washington, is showcased at the Toronto International Film Festival
  and is released on September 16.
• February 1 - The National Jazz Museum in Harlem reopens with around 1900 square feet of exhibition space on the ground floor of 58 West 129th Street in Central Harlem.

2017

• March 14 - The Kasper Collin documentary about trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, I Called Him Morgan, premieres in the US to critical acclaim, ranked by numerous mainstream newspapers as one of best films of 2017.

2019

• November 7 - The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is renamed the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz.

2020

• January 19 - Jimmy Heath dies at age 93 in Loganville, Georgia.
• March 6 - McCoy Tyner dies at his home in New Jersey.

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Bibliography

• Abjorensen, Norman (2017). Historical Dictionary of Popular Music. Rowman & Littlefield.
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• Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford University Press.
• Hobson, Vic (2014). Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues. University Press of Mississippi.
  ISBN 9781626740969
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• Yurochko, Bob (2001). A Short History of Jazz. Rowman & Littlefield.
  ISBN 9780830415953
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External links

• Artists, finding recording dates at Library of Congress

Category:History of jazz