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Overview of the events of 1999 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of
Jazz in the year 1999.
Events
January
March
May
June
July
August
September
Unknown date
Album releases
July
With Wikipedia articles
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1999 Remixes, the third compilation album released by British acid jazz band
Jamiroquai
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April Kisses, by
Bucky Pizzarelli
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Contemporary Jazz, by the
Branford Marsalis Quartet
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Continuance, by jazz fusion band
Greetings From Mercury, recorded live at Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
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Live at the Floating Jazz Festival, from the 1997 jazz festival of the same name by violinist
Johnny Frigo and his quartet.
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Peculiar Situation, a smooth jazz studio album by
Earl Klugh
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Synergy, studio album by jazz-fusion group
Dave Weckl Band
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Time's Mirror, big band album by jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger,
Tom Harrell
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Without Kuryokhin, American jazz multi-instrumentalist
Kenny Millions and Japanese experimental musician
Otomo Yoshihide.
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Barefoot on the Beach, by American smooth jazz vocalist
Michael Franks.
Other
Deaths
- January
- 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).
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- 19
- 27 –
Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer (born
1934).
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- 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
- 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
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