2005 in jazz

Jazz in 2005: 120 albums and 37 deaths.

Albums released in 2005

Louis Armstrong - Great Moments 8 2005 · Multimusic Mexico Guilty Pleasures 2005 · Columbia Soul & Blues 2005 · Forever Gold Ray Charles - Great Moments 9 2005 · Multimusic Mexico Genius & Friends 2005 · Atlantic Menuhin in Japan 1951 2005 · BMG All My Life 2005 · Le Chant du Monde Back Home 2005 · Reprise Records The Piano Player 2005 · Storyville Records Rockin' in Rhythm 2005 · Rolled Gold 'S Wonderful 2005 · Pegasus Romance in the Dark, Vol. 1 2005 · Documents Possibilities 2005 · Herbie Hancock Records George Gershwin: Concerto in F / Maurice Ravel: Concerto in G 2005 · OehmsClassics Musikproduktion GmbH An American in Paris / Catfish Row (Suite from "Porgy and Bess") / Promenade / Rhapsody in Blue / Cuban Overture 2005 · Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab America for Two 2005 · Classic Produktion Osnabrück Secret 2005 · Universal Music Polska Niebo 2005 · Universal Music Polska Copland: Inscape / Sessions: Symphony no. 8 / Perle: Trancendental Modulations / Rands: ...where the murmurs die... 2005 · New World Records Piano Fantasy / Piano Sonata 2005 · Naxos Music For The Theatre Vol. 2 2005 · Arte Nova Classics Appalachian Spring / Billy the Kid / Rodeo 2005 · RCA Red Seal Bird's Nest 2005 · Weton‐Wesgram The Dub Room Special! 2005 · Live Songs 2005 · Naxos Keyboard 2005 · Documents Legends Live at Montreux 1997 2005 · Live · Eagle Vision Sittin' In 2005 · Verve Finally… The First Farewell Tour 2005 · Live · Warner Music Vision Boris Vian : Je voudrais pas crever (Poètes & Chansons) 2005 · EPM Musique American Made World Played 2005 · Capitol Records Putcheros do Brasil 2005 · RCA Legrand Nougaro 2005 · EMI Amour 2005 · Sh-K-Boom Records It’s Time 2005 · 143 Records Glenn Miller - Great Moments 1 2005 · Multimusic Mexico Glenn Miller 2005 · Direct Source Special Products Inc. In the Mood 2005 · Weton‐Wesgram In the Mood 2005 The Piano Men 2005 · Reader’s Digest Music Victor/Victoria (2005 German cast) 2005 · Bremer Theater Rags to Riches: The Essential Hits 2005 Piano Fiesta 2005 · Live · Jazz Hour Live: Detroit/Chicago 2005 · Live · Hudson/Street Records Live at the 1988 Montreux Jazz Festival 2005 · Live · VAP Video The Jazz Singer 2005 · Sepia Records Onqotô 2005 · [no label] Sarah Vaughan - Great Moments 4 2005 · Multimusic Mexico With Clifford Brown: Complete Recordings 2005 · Lone Hill Jazz Shulie a Bop 2005 · Proper Records Piece by Piece 2005 · Dramatico Concept of Freedom 2005 · hatOLOGY Night Birds & Broken Wings 2005 · Newsound 2000 Play the Arrangements of Jimmy Giuffre 2005 · Lone Hill Jazz Complete Quartet Recordings 2005 · Lone Hill Jazz Christmas Songs 2005 · Verve La Création du monde / Le Bœuf sur le toit / Suite provençale 2005 · Naxos Violinkonzert no. 1 & 2 / Concertino de printemps / Le bœuf sur le toit 2005 · Orfeo Complete Violin Concertos 2005 · Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm Symphonie No. 10 / La Selva incantata / Quattro poemi 2005 · Accord Intelligence Failure 2005 L'allieva 2005 · PDU Bula Bula 2005 · Sony Music Rhythm for Two 2005 Revival 2005 · Heads Up International Almost Like Being in Jazz 2005 · Chissa Records Ladybird 2005 · SteepleChase Kaleidoscope: Jazz Meets the Symphony #6 2005 · Aleph Records Magnum Force 2005 · Aleph Records Planet of the Apes 2005 · Intrada Caveman 2005 · Aleph Records Everything’s OK 2005 · Blue Note Caught in the Act 2005 · Live · 143 Records Dynamite 2005 · Epic Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival 2005 · Live · Monterey Jazz Festival Records Extraordinary Machine 2005 · Clean Slate Live at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill September 10, 2003 2005 · Live · Epic Records International Live in Molde 2005 · Live · MNJ Records Rhumba Flamenco 2005 · Live · Chick Corea Productions Live at the House of Tribes 2005 · Live · Blue Note Music From Across the Way 2005 · Collectors’ Choice Music Images of Metheny 2005 · Azica Country Gentleman 2005 · BCI Music Heliocentric Worlds, Volume 3: The Lost Tapes 2005 · ESP‐Disk’ Oprem Dobro 2005 Idlewild 2005 · LaFace Records J’ai deux amours 2005 · Sovereign Artists Without a Song - The 9/11 Concert 2005 · Live · Milestone Records Mysterium 2005 · Tzadik Astaroth: Book of Angels, Volume 1 2005 · Tzadik Azazel: Book of Angels, Volume 2 2005 · Tzadik The Stone: Issue One 2005 · Tzadik Rituals 2005 · Tzadik Masada Anniversary Edition, Volume 5: Masada Rock 2005 · Tzadik Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death 2005 · Tzadik Filmworks XV: Protocols of Zion 2005 · Tzadik Connick on Piano, Volume 2: Occasion 2005 · Marsalis Music On the Road Again 2005 · Live · Dramatico Big Band Machine 2005 · LRC Ltd. Rich in London 2005 · BMG Japan A Different Drummer 2005 · BMGファンハウス The Complete Library of Congress Recordings 2005 · Rounder Sammy Davis Jnr. Live 2005 · Live · Demon Vision Live at Marihans 2005 · Chiaroscuro Records The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings 2005 · Legacy After Fajr 2005 · Birdology The Return of Odysseus / Milhaud: Suite Française / Vaughan Williams: Towards the Unknown Region 2005 · Divine Art Christmas Fantasy 2005 · Blue Note Overtures 2005 · Chandos See You as I Do 2005 · Capitol Records Dream Lover 2005 · Live · Prism Leisure Simplified 2005 Not in Our Name 2005 · Gitanes Jazz Productions Helium Tears 2005 · NewEdition Requiem 2005 · EMI Classics River Queen 2005 · EMI Milhaud: Concerto for Percussion and Small Orchestra / Poulenc: The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant / Jolivet: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra 2005 · Live · Warner Classics Cosmopolitan Life 2005 · Olè Records Enter the Chicken 2005 · Serjical Strike Records Kaleidoscalp 2005 · Tzadik

Died in 2005

Derek Bailey 1930–2005 · British guitarist (1930–2005) Joe Jones 1926–2005 · American musician (1926–2005) Bob Enevoldsen 1920–2005 · American musician (1920–2005) Roy Brooks 1938–2005 · American drummer (1938–2005) Shirley Horn 1934–2005 · American singer (1934–2005) Oleg Lundstrem 1916–2005 · Russian jazz musician (1916-2005) Georges Arvanitas 1931–2005 · Jazz pianist (1931–2005) Steve Marcus 1939–2005 · American musician (1939-2005) Frank Fields 1914–2005 · American musician (1914-2005) Al Casey 1915–2005 · American jazz guitarist (1915–2005) Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 1924–2005 · American blues musician (1924-2005) Francy Boland 1929–2005 · Belgian musician (1929–2005) Lucky Thompson 1924–2005 · American jazz saxophonist (1924–2005) Al McKibbon 1919–2005 · American musician (1919–2005) Dom Um Romão 1925–2005 · Brazilian jazz drummer, percussionist (1925–2005) Albert Mangelsdorff 1928–2005 · German jazz trombonist (1928–2005) Ted Greene 1946–2005 · American musician (1946–2005) Pierre Michelot 1928–2005 · French jazz double bassist (1928–2005) Basil Kirchin 1927–2005 · British musician Billy Bauer 1915–2005 · American jazz guitarist (1915–2005) Oscar Brown, Jr. 1926–2005 · American recording artist; singer, songwriter, playwright… Eddie Barclay 1921–2005 · French musician, record producer and composer (1921–2005) Monica Zetterlund 1937–2005 · Swedish singer and actress (1937-2005) Pierre Moerlen 1952–2005 · French musician (1952-2005) Percy Heath 1923–2005 · American musician (1923–2005) Robert Farnon 1917–2005 · Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and… Jimmy Woode 1929–2005 · American bassist (1929–2005) Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen 1946–2005 · Danish jazz upright bassist (1946–2005) Stan Levey 1926–2005 · American musician Bill Potts 1928–2005 · American musician (1928–2005) Benny Bailey 1924–2005 · American jazz trumpeter (1925–2005) Bobby Short 1924–2005 · American singer and pianist (1924–2005) Larry Bunker 1928–2005 · American musician (1928–2005) Martin Denny 1911–2005 · American pianist and composer best known for originating… Jimmy Smith 1925–2005 · American jazz organist Humphrey Carpenter 1946–2005 · British writer and broadcaster (1946–2005) Skitch Henderson 1918–2005 · American pianist, conductor, and composer (1918–2005)