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2021 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2021.

Events
JanuaryJanuary 14 – The 2020 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll rates Maria Schneider's Data Lords as the best album of 2020. February MarchMarch 14 - The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards occur. Jazz winners include: • Kurt Elling wins Best Jazz Vocal Album for his 2019 album Secrets are the Best StoriesChick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade win Best Jazz Instrumental Album for their 2021 album Trilogy 2 • The Maria Schneider Orchestra wins Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for its 2020 album Data Lords • Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra win Best Latin Jazz Album for their album Four Questions April May June JulyJuly 30 - Shabaka Hutchings from Sons Of Kemet founds a new UK Jazz record label, "Native Rebel Recordings" • July 30-August 1 – The Newport Jazz Festival takes place in the US state of Rhode Island. Performers include Gerald Clayton, Charles Lloyd, Mavis Staples, Trombone Shorty, Kamasi Washington and Brandee Younger. August September October • October 21 - Takuya Kuroda releases "Midnight Crisp" November DecemberDecember 4 - Promises (Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra album) is named album of the year 2021 by TIME magazine ==Albums==
Deaths
January 6Bobby Few, 85, American jazz pianist • January 17Sammy Nestico, 96, American composer and arranger • January 20Keith Nichols, 75, British instrumentalist and bandleader (COVID-19) • January 23Jonas Gwangwa, 83, South African jazz trombonist • February 9Chick Corea, 79, American pianist, composer and bandleader • February 12Milford Graves, 79, American drummer and polymath • March 2Chris Barber, 90, British bandleader and trombonist • March 7Josky Kiambukuta, 72, Congolese singer (TPOK Jazz) • March 8Julien-François Zbinden, 103, Swiss composer and jazz pianist • March 10János Gonda, 89, Hungarian jazz pianist • March 19Cristián Cuturrufo, 48, Chilean jazz trumpeter (COVID-19) • March 28Malcolm Cecil, 84, British jazz bassist and record producer • April 7Sonny Simmons, 87, American jazz saxophonist • May 8Curtis Fuller, 88, American jazz trombonist • May 15Mario Pavone, 80, American jazz bassist, composer and bandleader • June 21Nobuo Hara, 94, Japanese saxophonist • July 4Rick Laird, 80, Irish jazz bassist (Mahavishnu Orchestra) • July 31Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, 93, Polish jazz musician and composer • August 28Francesc Burrull, 86, Spanish musician and composer • September 16George Mraz, 77, Czech-American jazz bassist • September 28 - Dr. Lonnie Smith, 79, American jazz Hammond B3 organist • October 18Franco Cerri, 95, Italian jazz guitarist. • November 1Pat Martino, 77, American jazz guitarist. • November 18 - Slide Hampton, 89, American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger. • December 8 - Barry Harris, 91, American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator ==See also==
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