2016 in jazz

Jazz in 2016: 120 albums and 44 deaths.

Albums released in 2016

Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway 2016 · Columbia The Getaway 2016 · Warner Bros. Records The Menuhin Century: Unpublished Recordings and Rarities 2016 · Warner Classics Jazz at the Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set 2016 · Verve Live in Cologne, 1974 (Live) 2016 I Still Do 2016 · Surfdog Records 2016-09-01: Papp Laszlo Sports Arena, Budapest, Hungary 2016 · Live · [no label] Rhapsody in Blue / Concerto in F / Variations on "I Got Rhythm" 2016 · Somm Recordings An American In Paris, Concerto in F 2016 · harmonia mundi Watts by George! 2016 · Sony Classical Portrait 2016 Sincerely 2016 · Capitol Records Orchestral Works 2: Symphonies 2016 · Chandos Appalachian Spring (Complete Ballet) / Hear Ye! Hear Ye! 2016 · Naxos Orchestral Works 1: Ballets 2016 · Chandos Day Breaks 2016 · Blue Note Road Tapes, Venue #3 2016 · Live · VAULTernative Records Chicago ’78 2016 · Live · Zappa Records Little Dots 2016 · Live · Frank Zappa Catalog Live in San Diego 2016 · Live · Bushbranch Records Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 2016 · Live Nobody but Me 2016 · Reprise Records The Great Waldo Pepper 2016 · Quartet Records Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo 2016 · Warner Classics Loud Hailer 2016 · ATCO Records The Abyssinian Mass 2016 · Blue Engine Records Paco and John: Live at Montreux 1987 2016 · Live · Eagle Vision In Winter 2016 · BMG Moments In Time 2016 · 2xHD Alone Together 2016 · Jazz Images 1900 - 1952: Music for 2 Pianos 2016 · Sony Classical Complete Music for Solo Guitar 2016 · Brilliant Classics Manga Bolo 2016 · World Wide Records Aloko Party 2016 Le migliori 2016 · PDU No Borders 2016 · Universal Music South Africa Tired of Being Alone 2016 · Fat Possum Records Live in Boston @ Paradise Theater 1977 2016 · Live Celebrate Ornette 2016 · Live · Song X Records Deleted Scenes From the Cutting Room Floor (acoustic sessions) 2016 · Grandmono Records The Musician 2016 · Live · Concord Jazz Emily’s D+Evolution 2016 · Concord Records Welcome to My Love / Easy 2016 · Caroline International Just for Now / Lush Life 2016 · Caroline International Road Shows, Vol. 4: Holding the Stage 2016 · Live · Doxy Records Commedia dell'arte 2016 · Tzadik 49 Acts of Unspeakable Depravity in the Abominable Life and Times of Gilles de Rais 2016 · Tzadik The Mockingbird 2016 · Tzadik The Painted Bird 2016 · Tzadik The Classic Guide to Strategy, Volume 4 2016 · Tzadik Madrigals (For Six Female Voices) 2016 · Tzadik Melting 2016 · Rainbow Bridge World Human Nature 2016 · Herb Alpert Presents Chelsea's Kiss 2016 · Blank Editions All That Jazz, Vol. 73: Lester Young "Exercises in Swing" 2016 · Jube Legends Guitar Concert 2016 · High Definition Tape Transfers Cantata Memoria: For the Children 2016 · Deutsche Grammophon Live at Montreux 1991 2016 · Live · Eagle Vision Andando el tiempo 2016 · ECM Records Amazing Game 2016 · Platinum s.r.l. Some Other Time: The Lost Session From the Black Forest 2016 · Live · Resonance Records Non si sevizia un paperino 2016 · AMS Records Requiescant 2016 · Penta Music L’Inchiesta 2016 · Digitmovies Contratto Carnale 2016 · Quartet Records Kaleidoscope 2016 · Columbia Beautiful Hearts 2016 · Omnivore Recordings Complete High Voltage 2016 · Omnivore Recordings A Multitude of Angels 2016 · Live · ECM Records Chiamate 22-22 tenente Sheridan 2016 · Four Flies Records Barbershop the Next Cut 2016 · Sony Classical EJ 2016 · Provogue Horizon Ahead 2016 · HighNote Records Je vous souhaite d’être follement aimée 2016 · Mi’ster 10 ans de live ! 2016 · Mi’ster Dans les forêts de Sibérie 2016 · Mi’ster Christmas With Jon Batiste 2016 · Naht Jona, LLC Fool Bar 2016 · Universal Christmas Memories 2016 · CGP Sounds American Tunes 2016 · Nonesuch In a Temple Garden 2016 · CTI The Heart Speaks in Whispers 2016 · Virgin Love Life Peace 2016 · Sugar Porgy and Bess 2016 · Studio Songs Ready Take One 2016 · Legacy The Unity Sessions 2016 · Live · Nonesuch Apesantar 2016 · Frémeaux & Associés It's Been A Long, Long Time 2016 Nightfall 2016 · Masterworks The Good Life 2016 · OKeh In Some Far Place: Roma '77 2016 · Live · Strut The Complete Study in Brown 2016 · Essential Jazz Classics 20 Love Songs 2016 · [no label] European Radio Studio Recordings 1964 2016 · hatOLOGY Broad Horizon 2016 · Creative Multimedia Concepts Inc Live 1976 From New York Hofstra Playhouse 2016 · Gonzo Multimedia Drum ’n’ Voice, Vol. 4 2016 · Nicolosi Productions Atmospheres 2016 · ECM Records Heal My Soul 2016 · Provogue Buoyancy 2016 · OKeh Message from G. 2016 · MPS Nom de guerre cabal 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Umbrella Mistress 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Weekly Mansions 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Sworn Virgins 2016 · Ipecac Recordings El bien y mal nos une 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Blind Worms, Pious Swine 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Cell Phone Bikini 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Some Need It Lonely 2016 · Clouds Hill Zapopan 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Infinity Drips 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Corazones 2016 · Ipecac Recordings A Lovejoy 2016 · Ipecac Recordings Arañas en la sombra 2016 · Ipecac Recordings In Movement 2016 · ECM Records Jack Bruce and Friends: The Bottom Line Archive 2016 · Live · The Bottom Line Record Company LLC Cradle of Humanity 2016 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 2016 · Firehouse 12 Records Quintet [Tristano] 2014 2016 · New Braxton House Trillium J 2016 · New Braxton House

Died in 2016

Knut Kiesewetter 1941–2016 · German musician (1941–2016) Alphonse Mouzon 1948–2016 · American musician (1948-2016) Léo Marjane 1912–2016 · French jazz singer and actor (1912-2016) Shirley Bunnie Foy 1936–2016 · American jazz musician (1936–2016) Chuck Flores 1935–2016 · American jazz drummer (1935-2016) Mose Allison 1927–2016 · American jazz blues pianist and singer (1927–2016) Victor Bailey 1960–2016 · American musician (1960–2016) Kay Starr 1922–2016 · American singer (1922–2016) Bob Cranshaw 1932–2016 · American musician (1932–2016) Bobby Wellins 1936–2016 · Scottish jazz musician (1936–2016) Eddy Christiani 1918–2016 · Dutch guitar player and singer (1918–2016) Bhumibol Adulyadej 1927–2016 · former King of Thailand (1927–2016) Ioan Gyuri Pascu 1961–2016 · Romanian actor, musician and comedian (1961-2016) Karel Růžička 1940–2016 · Czech music educator, composer, jazz musician and pianist… Toots Thielemans 1922–2016 · Belgian jazz musician (1922–2016) Irving Fields 1915–2016 · American cocktail pianist famous for fusion of Latin and… Louis Smith 1931–2016 · American musician (1931–2016) Bobby Hutcherson 1941–2016 · American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (1941–2016) Connie Crothers 1941–2016 · American musician (1941-2016) Pete Fountain 1930–2016 · American clarinetist (1930–2016) Claude Williamson 1926–2016 · American jazz pianist (1926–2016) Bao Vang 1934–2016 · Vietnamese prince Don Friedman 1935–2016 · American jazz pianist (1935–2016) Charles Thompson 1918–2016 · American jazz pianist (1918–2016) Cauby Peixoto 1931–2016 · Brazilian singer Buster Cooper 1929–2016 · American trombonist Joe Temperley 1929–2016 · Scottish jazz saxophonist (1929–2016) Hannes Bauer 1954–2016 · German jazz trombonist (1954-2016) Doug Raney 1956–2016 · American musician (1956-2016) Jeremy Steig 1942–2016 · American jazz flutist (1942–2016) Don Francks 1932–2016 · Canadian actor and jazz musician (1932–2016) Gato Barbieri 1932–2016 · Argentine jazz musician (1932–2016) Terry Plumeri 1944–2016 · American conductor (1945–2016) David Baker 1931–2016 · American jazz composer, trombonist, professor of music and… Roger Cicero 1970–2016 · German pop and jazz singer (1970-2016) Ernestine Anderson 1928–2016 · American jazz and blues singer (1928–2016) Naná Vasconcelos 1944–2016 · Brazilian percussionist (1944–2016) Claus Ogerman 1930–2016 · German composer (1930-2016) John Chilton 1932–2016 · British musician (1932-2016) Dan Hicks 1941–2016 · American singer-songwriter Hubert Giraud 1920–2016 · French composer, lyricist (1920–2016) Kitty Kallen 1921–2016 · American singer (1921-2016) Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros 1928–2016 · Cuban jazz trumpeter (1928–2016) Paul Bley 1932–2016 · Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist…