2021 in jazz

Jazz in 2021: 120 albums and 45 deaths.

Albums released in 2021

Banning 2021 · La‐La Land Records In My Solitude: Solo Piano and Small Group Performances 2021 · MusicMasters In My Solitude: Solo Piano and Small Group Performances 2021 · MusicMasters Love for Sale 2021 · Columbia Mother Nature 2021 · Decca Records Portal to Another Dimension (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium The Speed I Drive (live 1991) 2021 · Live · Hatbox Anarchy (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Love Trilogy (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Live 1991 Part Two (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Anarchy in La (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Live in Kawasaki 1990 Part One (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Backward Hollywood (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Higher Ground (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Funky Crime (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Blood.Sugar.Sex.Magic (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Subway to Venus (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Liquid Outer Space (Live 1986) 2021 · Live · Sunfish Transcendance (live) 2021 · Live · Digital Opium Piano Concertos 2021 · Мелодия Rhapsody in Blue / Concerto en fa 2021 · Warner Classics Danzón 2021 I Dream of Christmas 2021 · Blue Note Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show 2021 · Live · Zappa Records The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions 2021 · Live · RCA Deutschland Goodbye Emmanuelle 2021 · Label Panthéon Live at Carnegie Hall - 1969 2021 · Live · Rhino Il était une fois les Explorateurs 2021 · Procidis Glenn Miller: Pennsylvania 6-5000 2021 · [no label] Starlit Hour 2021 · Beulah Very Best of Scott Joplin 2021 · [no label] Resonance 2021 · Universal Classics & Jazz Blues Symphony 2021 · Blue Engine Records Live… Under the Sky ’91 2021 · Live · Equinox Isa 2021 · Parlophone …’Til We Meet Again 2021 · Live · Blue Note Meu Coco 2021 · Sony Music Our Kinda Love 2021 · Reminisce Records Acoustic Album No. 8 2021 · BMG A Time for Love: The Oscar Peterson Quartet - Live in Helsinki, 1987 2021 · Live · Mack Avenue The A Sides 2021 · Flashback Digital NZ Pty Ltd Around Paris 2021 · Brilliant Classics Obsessive Play 2021 La voz misteriosa de los Andes 2021 New Standards 2021 · Concord Records Give Me More Love 2021 · Fat Possum Records Perfect Union 2021 · Omnivore Recordings Live Under the Sky, 1979 (Live) 2021 · Live · Equinox Around the World 2021 · Live · Ipanema Discos Road to the Sun 2021 · Metheny Group Productions Liberation Time 2021 · Abstract Logix Sleeping Beauty 2021 · Enterplanetary Koncepts Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Beyond Saturn) 2021 · Sun Ra LLC Songwrights Apothecary Lab 2021 · Concord Records Gnosis: The Inner Light 2021 · Tzadik John Zorn’s Bagatelles, Vol. 1–4 2021 · Tzadik A Garden of Forking Paths 2021 · Tzadik Nostradamus: The Death of Satan 2021 · Tzadik John Zorn’s Bagatelles, Vol. 5–8 2021 · Tzadik Teresa de Ávila 2021 · Tzadik Meditations on the Tarot 2021 · Tzadik Heaven and Earth Magick 2021 · Tzadik Parables 2021 · Tzadik The Ninth Circle 2021 · Tzadik New Masada Quartet 2021 · Tzadik Chaos Magick 2021 · Tzadik Afterallogy 2021 · More Management Alone With My Faith 2021 · Verve Walking Through The Clouds (Live 1984) 2021 Glamour Jazz Nights 2021 · Midnight Music Catch the Wind 2021 · Herb Alpert Presents Screen Time 2021 · [no label] BBC Music, Volume 29, Number 7: Malcolm Arnold: Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 2021 · BBC Music Magazine Orchestral Music 2021 · Toccata Classics Everchanging Times: Burt Bacharach Songbook III 2021 · Blue Note The Rare Albums Collection (CD2) 2021 · Enlightenment Moonglow 2021 · 2xHD With a Little Help From My Friends 2021 · Live · The Players Club Journey’s End (Live 1992) 2021 · Live Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings 2021 · Live · Element Records Malesia Magica 2021 · [no label] L’invasione 2021 · Quartet Records Latin American Dances: Works for Saxophone and Piano 2021 · Naxos Il vuoto 2021 · Four Flies Records In italia si chiama amore 2021 · [no label] Straziami ma di baci saziami 2021 · CF soundtracks Blasé And Yasmina Revisited 2021 · ezz-thetics Let My People Go 2021 · Archie Ball Remembering Bob Freedman 2021 Mirror Mirror 2021 · Candid First Noel 2021 · Mi’ster 9 jours à Raqqa 2021 · Mi’ster The Democracy! Suite 2021 · Blue Engine Records Soul! (Live '73) 2021 · Live · Pipe Dream We Are 2021 · Verve Born to Win, Born to Lose 2021 · Universal Music Group I Found the Sun Again 2021 · The Players Club Solotude 2021 Silver Lining Suite 2021 · Concord Records Festival International De Jazz (Live, Montreux 1970) 2021 Kirtan: Turiya Sings 2021 · impulse! Harmonics of the Night 2021 Early Numbers 2021 · Whispering Grass Side Eye NYC V1.IV 2021 · Live · Modern Recordings Christmas 2021 · Masterworks Stitches 2021 · Modern Recordings Caliente! 2021 · A&M Records Die Reaktion: The Last Jazz, Vol. II 2021 · Railroad Tracks Stop the Hate 2021 · Partisan Records Legacy + 2021 · Partisan Records Grand Songs 2021 · Masterworks 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 2021 · Firehouse 12 Records Hallgató 2021 · ECM New Series Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! 2021 · Live · UMe Somebody Else’s Favorite Songs (The Broadcast Collection 1974–1993) 2021 · Live Sidney Bechet at the 1949 International Jazz Festival of Paris (2021 Remaster) 2021 · Live · JPK Musik Variations On A Melancholy Theme 2021 · Nonesuch Samara Joy 2021 · Whirlwind Recordings Pourquoi 2021 · enja yellowbird Judas and the Black Messiah 2021 · WaterTower Music

Died in 2021

Barry Harris 1929–2021 · American jazz pianist and educator (1929–2021) Teppo Hauta-aho 1941–2021 · Finnish musician (1941–2021) Slide Hampton 1932–2021 · American trombonist (1932–2021) Ack van Rooyen 1930–2021 · Dutch trumpeter (1930–2021) Dave Frishberg 1933–2021 · American musician (1933–2021) Per Aage Brandt 1944–2021 · Danish writer and linguist Spike Heatley 1933–2021 · British musician (1933–2021) Pat Martino 1944–2021 · American jazz guitarist and composer (1944–2021) Emmett Chapman 1936–2021 · American musician (1936–2021) Franco Cerri 1926–2021 · Italian musician (1926–2021) Ralph Carmichael 1927–2021 · American composer and arranger of both secular pop music… Garnett Brown 1936–2021 · American musician (1936–2021) Lennart Åberg 1942–2021 · Swedish saxophonist (1942–2021) Lonnie Smith 1942–2021 · American jazz musician (1942–2021) Alfred Ellis 1941–2021 · American saxophonist (1941–2021) George Mraz 1944–2021 · Czech jazz bassist (1944–2021) George Wein 1925–2021 · American promoter and musician (1925–2021) Charlie Watts 1941–2021 · British drummer (1941–2021) Larry Harlow 1939–2021 · American musician (1939–2021) Jerzy Matuszkiewicz 1928–2021 · Polish musician (1928-2021) Chuck E. Weiss 1945–2021 · American singer (1945–2021) Rick Laird 1941–2021 · Irish jazz bassist (1941–2021) Elliot Lawrence 1925–2021 · American musician (1925-2021) Burton Greene 1937–2021 · American musician (1937-2021) Wojciech Karolak 1939–2021 · Polish jazz musician (1939–2021) Raul de Souza 1934–2021 · Brazilian musician (1934-2021) Svante Thuresson 1937–2021 · Swedish jazz and schlager singer (1937–2021) Curtis Fuller 1934–2021 · American jazz musician (1932–2021) Sonny Simmons 1933–2021 · American saxophonist (1933-2021) Malcolm Cecil 1937–2021 · English musician and record producer (1937-2021) Buddy Deppenschmidt 1936–2021 · American jazz drummer (1936-2021) Paul Jackson 1947–2021 · American musician (1947–2021) Freddie Redd 1928–2021 · American jazz pianist (1928–2021) Julien-François Zbinden 1917–2021 · Swiss composer and pianist (1917-2021) Chris Barber 1930–2021 · English trombonist (1930–2021) Milford Graves 1941–2021 · American jazz drummer and percussionist (1941-2021) Chick Corea 1941–2021 · American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and… Sibongile Khumalo 1957–2021 · South African opera singer (1957–2021) Jonas Gwangwa 1937–2021 · South African musician (1937-2021) Guem 1947–2021 · Algerian percussionist Junior Mance 1928–2021 · American musician (1928–2021) Sammy Nestico 1924–2021 · American composer and arranger (1924–2021) Howard Johnson 1941–2021 · American musician (1941–2021) David Darling 1941–2021 · American musician Bobby Few 1935–2021 · American jazz musician (1935-2021)