1962 in jazz

Jazz in 1962: 120 albums, 4 standards, 34 births and 11 deaths.

Albums released in 1962

Sinatra and Swingin’ Brass 1962 · Reprise Records Star Collection - Frank Sinatra With Count Basie 1962 · Reprise Records Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain 1962 · Reprise Records Sinatra & Strings 1962 · Reprise Records All Alone 1962 · Reprise Records Point of No Return 1962 · Capitol Records Holiday in Europe 1962 · Decca Records I Wish You a Merry Christmas 1962 · Warner Bros. Records Big Band Bossa Nova 1962 · Mercury Records Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music 1962 · ABC-Paramount Ray Charles 1962 · Coronet Records Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volume 2 1962 · ABC-Paramount Ella Swings Gently With Nelson 1962 · Verve Money Jungle 1962 · United Artists Jazz I Left My Heart in San Francisco 1962 · Columbia At Carnegie Hall Recorded Live June 9, 1962 1962 · Columbia Takin’ Off 1962 · Blue Note Porgy And Bess 1962 · World Record Club Nina Simone Sings Ellington 1962 · Colpix Cha Cha De Amor 1962 · Capitol Records French Style 1962 · Reprise Records Dino Latino 1962 · Reprise Records Dino: Italian Love Songs 1962 · Capitol Records Dear Lonely Hearts 1962 · Capitol Records More Cole Español 1962 · Capitol Records Ramblin’ Rose 1962 · Capitol Records The Touch of Your Lips 1962 · Capitol Records Once There Was Bird 1962 · Charlie Parker Records Coltrane Plays the Blues 1962 · Atlantic Standard Coltrane 1962 · Prestige Lovely & Alive 1962 · RCA Victor Lena on the Blue Side 1962 · RCA Victor N°4 1962 · Philips Broadway Is My Beat 1962 · Philips At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert 1962 · Live · Columbia Hollywood & Broadway 1962 · Live · Columbia Etta James 1962 · Argo Etta James Sings for Lovers 1962 · Argo Experiment in Terror 1962 · RCA Victor Hatari! 1962 · RCA Victor Twistin’ the Stomp 1962 · Polydor Just Domino 1962 · Imperial Ornette on Tenor 1962 · Atlantic The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President 1962 · RCA Victor By Request 1962 · RCA Victor The Boss Of The Bossa Nova 1962 · Atlantic João Gilberto 1962 · Odeon Country Music Connie Style 1962 · MGM Records Sings Irish Favorites 1962 · MGM Records Sings Modern Italian Hits 1962 · MGM Records Second Hand Love And Other Hits 1962 · Universal Records What’s New? 1962 · RCA Victor The Bridge 1962 · RCA Victor Shadow Waltz 1962 Sugar ’n’ Spice 1962 · Capitol Records Blues Cross Country 1962 Sweet, Sultry and Swinging 1962 · Spin-O-Rama You’re Mine You 1962 · Roulette Sassy Meets Shearing! 1962 · Camay Records Snowbound 1962 · Roulette What Kind of Fool Am I: And Other Show‐Stoppers 1962 · Reprise Records Plays the Theme From Beyond the Fringe & All That Jazz 1962 · Atlantic Jazz Samba 1962 · Verve Big Band Bossa Nova 1962 · Verve Oh! Look at Me Now 1962 · Capitol Records Sings Ray Charles 1962 · ATCO Records Things & Other Things 1962 · ATCO Records Chet Is Back! 1962 · RCA Victor Oh Yeah 1962 · Atlantic Tijuana Moods 1962 · RCA Victor Interplay 1962 · Craft Recordings Undercurrent 1962 · United Artists Moliendo café 1962 · Italdisc Renato 1962 · Italdisc Trumpet Africaine 1962 Go 1962 · Blue Note A Swingin’ Affair 1962 · Blue Note Blues Make Me Happy 1962 · Coral Records Wayning Moments 1962 · Vee-Jay Records Bossa Nova: New Brazilian Jazz 1962 · Audio Fidelity Lalo = Brilliance (The Piano Of Lalo Schifrin) 1962 · Roulette BBB & Co. 1962 · Swingville The Exciting Hamp In Europe 1962 · Ember Records Many Splendored Vibes 1962 · Epic In Love 1962 · Roulette I Wanna Be Loved 1962 · Mercury Records Drinking Again 1962 · Roulette Jazz Dinah ’62 1962 · Roulette Down Home 1962 · RCA Victor Caribbean Guitar 1962 · RCA Victor Back Home Hymns 1962 · RCA Victor Dig It! 1962 · Prestige The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra 1962 · Savoy Records Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley 1962 · Capitol Records Hello Young Lovers 1962 · Capitol Records Our Man in Jazz 1962 · Live · RCA Victor Burnin Beat 1962 · Verve The Gospel Truth 1962 · Verve Records, Inc. Cannonball’s Bossa Nova 1962 · Riverside Love Letters 1962 · Capitol Records Sophisticated Lady 1962 · Liberty Desafinado 1962 · impulse! Macanudo 1962 · Argo All of You 1962 · Argo The Wildest Comes Home! 1962 · Capitol Records The Lion 1962 · London Records Goda vanor i långa banor 1962 · Telestar Town Hall Concert 1962 · Live · United Artists Ready for Freddie 1962 · Blue Note Hub-Tones 1962 · Blue Note Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet 1962 · Philips 1963 1962 · Verve Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet 1962 · Philips La donna nel mondo (Original Motion Picture Sound Track Music) 1962 · CAM Mondo Cane 1962 · International Bossa Nova 1962 · Capitol Records Piano, Strings And Moonlight 1962 · Epic A Jazz Version Of The Broadway Hit Subways Are For Sleeping 1962 · Epic ひばりの渡り鳥だよ 1962 · Columbia With The All-Star Big Band 1962 · Verve

Standards written in 1962

TitleComposerKeyFormGroove
Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock F major A · 16 Even eighths
Call Me Irresponsible Jimmy Van-Heusen F major ABB · 28 Medium swing
Só Danço Samba Antonio-Carlos Jobim C major AABA · 32 Bossa nova
The Sweetest Sounds Richard Rodgers F major AB · 40 Medium-up swing

Died in 1962

Born in 1962

Michel Petrucciani 1962–1999 · French jazz pianist Terence Blanchard 1962 · American musician and composer Femi Kuti 1962 · Nigerian musician Lisa Ono 1962 · Brazilian Japanese bossa nova singer Chris Botti 1962 · American trumpeter and composer Lee Aaron 1962 · Canadian rock singer (born 1962) James Morrison 1962 · Australian jazz musician Renaud Garcia-Fons 1962 · French upright-bassist and composer Bendik Hofseth 1962 · Norwegian musician Angelo Debarre 1962 · French Romani jazz musician Renee Rosnes 1962 · Canadian pianist Liane Foly 1962 · French singer Caroline Henderson 1962 · Danish–Swedish singer Alison Brown 1962 · American banjo player, guitarist, composer, and producer Perico Sambeat 1962 · Spanish jazz saxophonist Ronny Jordan 1962–2014 · English guitarist (1962-2014) Dado Moroni 1962 · Italian musician Ben Monder 1962 · American jazz guitar player Andrej Šeban 1962 · Slovak jazz fusion guitarist Paula Morelenbaum 1962 · Brazilian singer focussing on bossa nova and latin jazz Euge Groove 1962 · American musical artist Joan Chamorro 1962 · Spanish jazz musician Erika Stucky 1962 · Swiss jazz composer, singer and accordionist Lisa Simone 1962 · American actress and singer Billy Martin 1962 · American jazz drummer Rachel Z 1962 · American jazz pianist and rock electronica keyboardist Roni Ben-Hur 1962 · Israeli-American jazz guitarist Carla Cook 1962 · American jazz singer Craig Handy 1962 · American tenor saxophonist Aydın Esen 1962 · Turkish musician (born 1962) Pedro Javier González 1962 · guitarist Juliet Roberts 1962 · British musician Ugonna Okegwo 1962 · jazz musician Najma Akhtar 1962 · singer