1965 in jazz

Events

July

• 1 – The 12th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island.

  Unknown dates

• Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in larger premises at 47 Frith Street, in London's Soho district.
• Carla Bley divorced Paul Bley.

  Album releases

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

  Standards

Deaths

• 29 – Jack Hylton, English pianist, composer, band leader, and impresario.

• 12 – Bonnie Wetzel, American upright bassist.
• 15 – Nat King Cole, American pianist and singer.

• 8 – Tadd Dameron, American composer, arranger, and pianist.

• 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader.
• 14 – Joe Sanders, American pianist, singer, and bandleader.
• 24 – Denzil Best, American percussionist and composer.

• 25 – Keg Purnell, American drummer.

• 1 – Claude Thornhill, American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.
• 4 – Valdemar Eiberg, Danish musician and orchestra leader.
• 8 – Willie Dennis, American trombonist.
• 14 – Spencer Williams, African-American pianist, singer, and composer.

• 10 – Freddie Slack, American pianist, composer, and bandleader.

• 15 – Steve Brown, American upright bassist.

• 10 – Gerorge Tucker, American upright bassist.
• 27 – Edythe Wright, American singer.
• 28 – Earl Bostic, American alto saxophonist.

• 6 – Clarence Williams, American pianist, vocalist, and composer.
• 14 – Buster Harding, Canadian-born American pianist.
• 18 – Lou Black, American banjo player.
• 21 – Cecil Brower, American violinist .
• Warren Tartaglia, American saxophonist.

• 2 – Hank D'Amico, American clarinetist.
• 11 – Dave Barbour, American guitarist.
• 20 – Charlie Burse, American ukulele, banjo, and guitar player.
• 26 – Peter Packay, Belgian trumpeter, arranger, and composer.

  Births

• 1 – Miki Higashino, Japanese pianist and video game composer.
• 3 – Sheila Majid, Malaysian singer.
• 19 – Antonio Faraò, Italian pianist.

• 13 – Ole Mathisen, Norwegian saxophonist.
• 24 – Tone Åse, Norwegian singer.
• 27 – Joey Calderazzo, American pianist.

• 2 – Wolfgang Muthspiel, Austrian guitarist and record label owner.
• 8 – Karin Mensah, Cape Verdean singer.
• 12 – Liv Stoveland, Norwegian singer.
• 22 – David Linx, Belgian singer and songwriter.
• 24 – Patrick Scales, British-German bass guitarist.

• 7 – Sylvain Luc, French guitarist.
• 10 – Omar Sosa, Cuban composer, bandleader, and pianist.
• 20 – Darko Jurković, Croatian guitarist and composer.
• 29 – Rain Sultanov, Azerbaijani saxophonist.

• 3 – Magnus Öström, Swedish drummer, Esbjörn Svensson Trio or e.s.t.
• 10 – Philip Harper, American trumpeter.
• 16 – Javon Jackson, American tenor saxophonist.

• 3
• * Derrick Gardner, American trumpeter.
• * Mirko Fait, Italian saxophonist and composer.
• 9 – Helge Sunde, Norwegian trombonist and multi-instrumentalist.
• 27 – Magnus Broo, Swedish trumpeter, Atomic.

• 5 – Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli pianist.
• 16 – Odd André Elveland, Norwegian saxophonist.
• 19 – Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist.
• 28 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American trombonist and record producer.

• 4 – Terri Lyne Carrington, American drummer, composer, singer, record producer, and entrepreneur.
• 6 – Ravi Coltrane, American saxophonist.
• 29 – Mark d'Inverno, British pianist, composer, and computer scientist.

• 5 – Björn Meyer, Swedish bassist and composer.
• 11 – Jesse Davis, American saxophonist.
• 24 – Njål Ølnes, Norwegian saxophonist.
• 28 – Hans Ulrik, Danish saxophonist, and composer.

• 9 – Geir Lysne, Norwegian saxophonist and orchestra leader.
• 12 – Luis Bonilla, American trombonist, producer, composer and educator.
• 18 – Curtis Stigers, American vocalist, saxophonist, guitarist, and songwriter.

• 2 – Andrew D'Angelo, American saxophonist.
• 10 – Mark Turner, American saxophonist.
• 21 – Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter.

• 5 – Hildegunn Øiseth, Norwegian trumpeter and hornist.
• 7 – Wolfgang Haffner, German drummer.
• 29 – Danilo Perez, Panamanian pianist and composer.
• 30 – Ron Affif, American guitarist.

• Arturo Tappin, Barbadian saxophonist and composer.
• Helge Andreas Norbakken, Norwegian percussionist.
• Kostas Theodorou, Greek upright bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.