2020 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2020.
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.jpg.webp) Nitcho Reinhardt 2019 at Cosmopolite, Oslo. | |
| Decade | 2020s in jazz |
| Music | 2020 in music |
| Standards | List of jazz standards |
| See also | 2019 in jazz – 2021 in jazz |
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Events
- May 6 – Gregory Porter's brother Lloyd dies of COVID-19, two months after the singer is forced to interrupt his world tour by the pandemic.[1]
- August 6-8 – The Newport Jazz Festival is replaced by a programme of virtual events created by founder George Wein.[2]
Deaths
- January 10 – Wolfgang Dauner, 84, German jazz pianist[3]
- February 10 – Lyle Mays, 66, American jazz fusion keyboardist (Pat Metheny Group)[4]
- February 16 – Graeme Allwright, 93, New Zealand-French folk and jazz singer-songwriter[5]
- February 18 – Jon Christensen, 76m Norwegian jazz drummer[6]
- March 2 – Susan Weinert, 54, German jazz fusion guitarist (cancer)[7]
- March 6 – McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist[8]
- March 10 – Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine jazz saxophonist (COVID-19)[9]
- October 17 – Toshinori Kondo, 71, Japanese jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter[10]
- October 31 – Marc Fosset, 71, French jazz guitarist[11]
- November 1 – Pedro Iturralde, 91, Spanish jazz saxophonist[12]
- November 7 – Cándido Camero, 99, Cuban jazz percussionist[13]
- November 11 – Andrew White, 78, American jazz saxophonist[14]
- November 26 – Allan Botschinsky, 80, Danish jazz trumpeter[15]
- December 30 – Eugene Wright, 97, American jazz bassist (Dave Brubeck Quartet)[16]
See also
References
- Sue Crawford (25 September 2020). "Sixty Seconds: Gregory Porter on losing his brother to Covid, waking up the Queen and a love of hats". Metro. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- "Newport Jazz Festival Announces Newport Jazz Revival 2020". What's Up New?. July 23, 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- Schleider, Tim (10 January 2020). "Stuttgarter Jazzlegende / Wolfgang Dauner ist tot". Stuttgarter Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- West, Michael J. (11 February 2020). "Lyle Mays 1953–2020". JazzTimes. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- "Le chanteur folk Graeme Allwright est mort". Le Monde. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
- "Jon Christensen er død". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- Jacobi, Elke. "Die begnadete Gitarristin starb im Alter von 54 Jahren: Susan Weinert ist tot". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- "McCoy Tyner 1938 – 2020". JazzTimes. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- "El saxofonista argentino Marcelo Peralta murió por coronavirus en Madrid" (in Spanish). perfil.com. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- "Toshinori Kondo, Trailblazing Modern Trumpeter, Dies At 71". NPR. 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
- "Décès du guitariste Marc Fosset". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- "Muere Pedro Iturralde, gran maestro del jazz español" (in Spanish). ABC. 1 November 2020. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020.
- Genzlinger, Neil (2020-11-22). "Cándido Camero, Conga Master Who Transformed Jazz, Dies at 99". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
- West, Michael J. (13 November 2020). "Andrew White, Prolific Multi-Instrumentalist, Scholar and Washington, D.C. Legend, Dies at 78". wbgo.com. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- "Dansk musiklegende død" (in Danish). 29 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- Ben Beaumont-Thomas (1 Jan 2021). "Eugene Wright, bassist with classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, dies aged 97". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 Jan 2021.
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