1999 in jazz:

Events

• Don't Know Why by Jesse Harris appears on his 1999 album, Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos.
• The Magic City Jazz Orchestra (MCJO) American jazz ensemble is founded
• The Pulitzer Prize Board bestows a special posthumous honor on Duke Ellington
• WEAA is named 1999 Jazz Station of the Year by Gavin Magazine
• Atomic Norwegian / Swedish jazz band formed
• Radioactive Sago Project, a Filipino jazz rock band formed in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
• III Records, a record label based in Japan is founded
• Zoe Rahman, a British jazz composer and pianist won the 'Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year' Award.

Album releases

With Wikipedia articles

• 1999 Remixes, the third compilation album released by British acid jazz band Jamiroquai
• April Kisses, by Bucky Pizzarelli
• Continuance, by jazz fusion band Greetings From Mercury, recorded live at Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
• Live at the Floating Jazz Festival, from the 1997 jazz festival of the same name by violinist Johnny Frigo and his quartet.
• Peculiar Situation, a smooth jazz studio album by Earl Klugh
• Synergy, studio album by jazz-fusion group Dave Weckl Band
• Time's Mirror, big band album by jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger, Tom Harrell
• Without Kuryokhin, American jazz multi-instrumentalist Kenny Millions and Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide.
• Barefoot on the Beach, by American smooth jazz vocalist Michael Franks.

Other

• Jane Ira Bloom: The Red Quartets
• Steve Coleman: The Sonic Language of Myth - Believing Learning Knowing
• Marty Ehrlich: Malinke's Dance
• Bill Dixon: Papyrus I
• Guillermo Gregorio: Red Cubed
• Paul Dunmall: Bebop Starburst
• Matthew Shipp: Expansion Power Release
• Misha Mengelberg: Solo
• Marilyn Crispell: Red
• Marilyn Crispell: Blue
• Evan Parker: After Appleby
• Joshua Redman: Beyond
• Maybe Monday: Saturn's Finger
• Branford Marsalis: Contemporary Jazz
• Terence Blanchard: Wandering Moon
• Richard Lee Johnson: Fingertip Ship (Metro Blue)

Deaths

Art Farmer Joe Williams]] Wyatt Ruther

• Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader
• Andy Simpkins, American jazz bassist.
• Anna Mae Winburn, African American vocalist and jazz bandleader
• Arnold Fishkind, American jazz bassist
• Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
• Bobby Troup,
• Candy Candido,
• Charles Earland, American jazz composer, organist, and saxophonist in the soul jazz idiom
• Charles Rogers (actor),
• Charlie Byrd,
• Clifford Jarvis, American hard bop and free jazz drummer
• Curtis Mayfield,
• Edward Vesala, Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer.
• Ernie Wilkins,
• Freddy Randall, English jazz trumpeter and bandleader
• Gar Samuelson,
• Grover Washington, Jr.,
• Helen Forrest, female jazz vocalist
• Henry Nemo,
• Herman Foster,
• Horace Tapscott,
• Jaki Byard, American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone
• Jimmy Roberts, American singer.
• Joe Williams, American jazz vocalist
• John Benson Brooks, American jazz pianist, songwriter, arranger, and compose
• John Roache, pianist and composer of Ragtime
• Kenny Baker, English player of jazz trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn, and a composer.
• LaMont Johnson, American jazz pianist who played in the hard bop and post-bop genres
• Lauderic Caton, Trinidadian guitarist
• Leon Thomas, American avant garde jazz singer
• Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist.
• Lester Bowie,
• Manfredo Fest,
• Mel Torm ,
• Melba Liston, American jazz musician (trombone, compositions, musical arrangements)
• Milt Jackson,
• Moondog,
• Red Norvo, one of jazz's early vibraphonists
• Richard B. Boone, American jazz musician, trombonist and vocalist
• Rick Fay,
• Rosy McHargue,
• Sam Ranelli,
• Spiegle Willcox, jazz trombonist
• Sal Salvador, bebop jazz guitarist and a prominent music educator
• Sweets Edison,
• Teddy McRae, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger
• Terry Rosen,
• Tony Crombie, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer
• Trudy Desmond, Canadian jazz singer
• Walt Levinsky, American big band and orchestral player, composer, arranger and band leade
• Warren Covington, American jazz trombonist
• Wyatt Ruther, American jazz double-bassist.
• Yehudi Menuhin, Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor

External links

• The Best Jazz Albums of the 1990s