1965 in jazz:

Events

Album releases

• John Coltrane: Ascension, A Love Supreme
• Sun Ra: The Magic City
• Marion Brown: Marion Brown Quartet
• Don Cherry: Complete Communion
• Sam Rivers: Contours
• Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
• Roland Kirk: Rip, Rig and Panic
• Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
• John Coltrane: Meditations
• Milford Graves: Percussion Ensemble
• Patty Waters: Sings
• Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye
• Frank Wright: Frank Wright Trio
• Andrew Hill: Compulsion
• Ornette Coleman: Chappaqua Suite
• Wayne Shorter: Soothsayer
• Bobby Hutcherson: Components
• New York Art Quartet: Mohawk
• Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues
• Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue
• Ben Webster: Stormy Weather
• Lee Morgan: Cornbread
• Prince Lasha: Inside Story
• Lee Morgan: The Gigolo
• Archie Shepp: Fire Music
• Roswell Rudd: Roswell Rudd
• Eddie Palmieri: Mozambique
• Gabor Szabo: Gypsy

Standards

Deaths

• Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919  February 15, 1965)
• Tadd Dameron (February 21, 1917  March 8, 1965)
• Claude Thornhill (10 August 1908   1 July 1965)
• Earl Bostic (April 25, 1913  October 28, 1965)

Births

References

Bibliography