2020 in jazz

Jazz in 2020: 120 albums and 66 deaths.

Albums released in 2020

All that Jazz, Vol. 128: Quincy Jones - "Ghana" 2020 · Jube Legends Ray Charles - Optimum 2020 · Puzzle Productions Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2020 · Zappa Records Nobody Weird Like Me (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Suck My Kiss (live) 2020 · Live · Queen B Productions Hollywood Blood (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Red Hot Chili Peppers: Live at Woodstock 2020 · Live · House of Humbug Live in Kawasaki 1990 Part Two (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Aeroplane Mode (Live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Live 1995 Part Two (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Blood Sugar Sex Magic (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Live 1991 Part One (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium All Over the World (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Bullet Proof (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Live 1995 Part One (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium My Lovely Man (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Traffic (Live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Me and My Friends (live) 2020 · Live · House of Humbug Warped Sense of Reality (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Erase the Pain (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Give It Away (live) 2020 · Live · Strawberry Records Bullet Proof (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Black Eyed Blonde (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Knock Me Down (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Me and My Friends (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Stone Cold (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Knock Me Down (live) 2020 · Live · Cloudstream Recordings The California Way (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Bare Necessities (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Transcending (live) 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Stone Club Bush (live) 2020 · Live · Cloudstream Recordings Malevolent Mob 2020 · Live · Digital Opium Spheres 2020 · Prospero Gershwin: Concerto in F / Tower: Sequoia / Piston: Symphony no. 5 / Harbison: Remembering Gatsby 2020 · Naxos Copland: Clarinet Concerto / Appalachian Spring / Strauss: Duet Concertino / Capriccio 2020 · Signum Classics Symphony no. 3 2020 · SFS Media Pick Me Up Off the Floor 2020 · Blue Note Complete Recordings 2020 · Bird's Nest Charlie Parker With Strings 2020 · Bird's Nest Plays Cole Porter 2020 · Bird's Nest Bird And Diz 2020 · Bird's Nest Now's The Time 2020 · Bird's Nest At Café Society 2020 · Bird's Nest The Mothers 1970 2020 · Live · Frank Zappa Catalog Halloween 81 Highlights 2020 · Live · Zappa Records Halloween 81 2020 · Live · Zappa Records Lullabies 2020 · Verve La Chanson de Prévert 2020 · Conarte Grabaciones Live at Canterbury House - 1967 2020 · Live · Rhino Early Joni - 1963 2020 · Live · Rhino S n o b 2020 · Carillon Music The French Jazz Legend (Remastered) 2020 · Master Tape Records Bachelor in Paradise 2020 · Digital Revival Scott Joplin's Original Rags Played by the Composer (1896-1917) 2020 · Deja Vu It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 2020 · RCA Behind This Guitar 2020 · Anthem Records Rollins in Holland 2020 · Resonance Records Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote 2020 · Universal Music Album No. 8 2020 · BMG Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan / Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio 2020 · Verve Reissues This Dream of You 2020 · Verve Der Prinz von Homburg 2020 · Capriccio Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés 2020 · Live · INA Palo Alto 2020 · Live · impulse! Palais des Beaux-Arts 1963 2020 · Live · Tidal Waves Music Fetch the Bolt Cutters 2020 · Epic Gil Baiana ao Vivo em Salvador (Ao Vivo) 2020 · Live · Gege Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered) 2020 · Master Tape Records The Star (Remastered) 2020 · Master Tape Records From This Place 2020 · Nonesuch Is That So? 2020 · Abstract Logix Brod budala 2020 Azoth 2020 · Tzadik The Turner Études 2020 · Tzadik Les Maudits 2020 · Tzadik Virtue 2020 · Tzadik Somethin’ Else: The Stereo & Mono Versions (Plus Bonus Tracks) 2020 Gumbo Blues 2020 · Purple Pyramid OW 2020 By the Fire 2020 · The Daydream Library Series The Dancing Master, op. 34 2020 · Resonus Classics Symphony No. 5 / Belles of St Trinians / Little Suite... 2020 · alto Wonderful Christmastime 2020 Homecoming 2020 · Live · BMG The Legend of King Oliver (Remastered) 2020 · Master Tape Records Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 2020 · Live · Sunnyside Life Goes On 2020 · ECM Records Live at Ronnie Scott’s 2020 · Live Across the Universe 2020 · earMUSIC Infinite Things 2020 · RCA Ghost Host 2020 · Buckethead Records Clockunwise 2020 · Buckethead Records Weekend in London 2020 · Live · Provogue Christmas in L.A. 2020 · Live · Sutra Budapest Concert 2020 · Live · ECM Records Montmartre 1964 2020 · Live Atlanta Georgia May 5, 1981 2020 · Live The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings 2020 · Jazzline Classics Generations 2020 · Jazziza Records Le dolci signore 2020 · Digitmovies A arte de viver 2020 · Deck Consequences Revisited 2020 · ezz-thetics Ocean Bridges 2020 · Redefinition Records Foursight: The Complete Stockholm Tapes 2020 · In+Out Records EJ, Vol II 2020 · Vortexan Music 40 Melodies 2020 · Mi’ster Une belle équipe 2020 · Mi’ster The Ever Fonky Lowdown 2020 · Blue Engine Records Rock Chalk Suite 2020 · Jazz At Lincoln Center A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration 2020 · Blue Engine Records Black, Brown and Beige 2020 · Blue Engine Records The Fifties: A Prism 2020 · Blue Engine Records Inferno 2020 · Blue Engine Records Sketches in Jazz 2020 · Red Gate Records Music From and Inspired by Soul 2020 · Walt Disney Records Meditations 2020 · [no label] Cherry Pie 2020 The Best of Tommysongs 2020 · CGP Sounds My Shining Hour 2020 Picture Window 2020

Died in 2020

Eugene Wright 1923–2020 · American jazz musician (1923–2020) Claude Bolling 1930–2020 · French jazz musician, composer and pianist (1930–2020) Tony Rice 1951–2020 · American bluegrass musician (1951–2020) Mojmir Sepe 1930–2020 · Slovene conductor and composer (1930-2020) Stanley Cowell 1941–2020 · American musician (1941–2020) Jeff Clayton 1955–2020 · American musician (1955–2020) Howard Wales 1943–2020 · American keyboardist (1943–2020) Ron Mathewson 1944–2020 · British jazz musician, bass player (1944-2020) Andrew White 1942–2020 · American musician (1942-2020) Cándido Camero 1921–2020 · Cuban percussionist (1921-2020) Pedro Iturralde 1929–2020 · Spanish musician (1929–2020) Viola Smith 1912–2020 · American musician (1912-2020) Toshinori Kondo 1948–2020 · Japanese trumpeter, music producer (1948-2020) Gordon Haskell 1946–2020 · British singer (1946-2020) Ira Sullivan 1931–2020 · American jazz musician (1931–2020) Reggie Johnson 1940–2020 · American musician (1940-2020) Gary Peacock 1935–2020 · American jazz double-bassist Peter King 1940–2020 · British musician (1940–2020) Charlie Persip 1929–2020 · American jazz drummer (1929–2020) Hal Singer 1919–2020 · American musician (1919–2020) Steve Grossman 1951–2020 · American saxophonist (1951–2020) Salome Bey 1933–2020 · American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and… Annie Ross 1930–2020 · British-American actress, singer and vocalist Eddie Gale 1941–2020 · American musician (1941–2020) Joe Porcaro 1930–2020 · American drummer (1930–2020) Cleveland Eaton 1939–2020 · American musician Nikolai Kapustin 1937–2020 · Soviet and Russian composer and pianist (1937–2020) Johnny Mandel 1925–2020 · American composer and arranger of popular songs, film… Freddy Cole 1931–2020 · American jazz singer and pianist William C. Dement 1928–2020 · American sleep researcher (1928–2020) Keith Tippett 1947–2020 · British jazz pianist and composer (1947–2020) Lennie Niehaus 1929–2020 · American saxophonist and composer (1929–2020) Jimmy Cobb 1929–2020 · American jazz drummer (1929–2020) Donn Trenner 1927–2020 · American musician Richie Cole 1948–2020 · American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger… Bootsie Barnes 1937–2020 · American saxophonist (1937–2020) Jacques Pellen 1957–2020 · French jazz guitarist (1957–2020) Giuseppi Logan 1935–2020 · American musician (1935-2020) Lee Konitz 1927–2020 · American jazz musician (1927–2020) Henry Grimes 1935–2020 · American musician (1935–2020) Ryo Kawasaki 1947–2020 · Japanese jazz guitarist (1947-2020) Louis van Dijk 1941–2020 · Dutch pianist, music arranger (1941-2020) Jymie Merritt 1926–2020 · American bassist (1926–2020) Richard Teitelbaum 1939–2020 · American composer, jazz musician (1939–2020) Peter Ecklund 1945–2020 · American musician (1945-2020) Bucky Pizzarelli 1926–2020 · American jazz guitarist (1926–2020) Ellis Marsalis Jr. 1934–2020 · American jazz pianist and educator (1934–2020) Harold Rubin 1932–2020 · South African-born Israeli artist (1932-2020) Wallace Roney 1960–2020 · American jazz trumpeter (1960–2020) Donna Caroll 1939–2020 · Argentine actress and singer (1938-2020) Claude Abadie 1920–2020 · French clarinetist (1920–2020) Olle Holmquist 1936–2020 · Swedish musician Manu Dibango 1933–2020 · Cameroonian musician and songwriter, recording artist… Mike Longo 1937–2020 · American musician (1937–2020) Eric Weissberg 1939–2020 · American musician (1939–2020) Ray Mantilla 1934–2020 · American jazz drummer (1934–2020) Eva Pilarová 1939–2020 · Czech singer (1939-2020) Marcelo Peralta 1961–2020 · Argentine musician McCoy Tyner 1938–2020 · American jazz pianist (1938–2020) Bill Smith 1926–2020 · jazz musician and composer from the United States Jon Christensen 1943–2020 · Norwegian jazz musician (1943–2020) Lyle Mays 1953–2020 · American jazz musician (1953–2020) Jimmy Heath 1926–2020 · American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band… Claudio Roditi 1946–2020 · Brazilian musician (1946–2020) Wolfgang Dauner 1935–2020 · German musician (1935-2020) Neil Peart 1952–2020 · Canadian-American drummer and lyricist (1952–2020)