2024 in jazz

Events

July 9 – Kamasi Washington starts his first ever UK tour, at a bar in Herne Hill, UK^[4]

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Month	Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
January	19	Cloudward	Mary Halvorson	Nonesuch Records		^[6]^[7]
Foreverland	Keyon Harrold	Concord Jazz
Technically Acceptable	Ethan Iverson	Blue Note Records
26	The Room	Sam Gendel and Fabiano do Nascimento	Real World		^[8]
26	Trust the process	Filippo Ieraci, Simone Serafini and Jacopo Zanette	Amerio Stefano edizioni musicali
February	2	Compassion	Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey	ECM Records		^[9]
9	Nublues	Joel Ross	Blue Note Records		^[10]
March	1	Speak to Me	Julian Lage		^[11]
8	Visions	Norah Jones		^[12]
Eagle's Point	Chris Potter with Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, and John Patitucci	Edition Records		^[13]
April	5	Echoes of the Inner Prophet	Melissa Aldana	Blue Note Records		^[14]
12	Who Killed AI?	Kenny Garrett and Svoy	Mack Avenue Records		^[15]
May	3	Fearless Movement	Kamasi Washington	Young		^[16]
31	Night Reign	Arooj Aftab	Verve Records		^[17]
August	9	Milton + Esperanza	Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding	Concord Records		^[18]
September	27	Planetarium	Ben Monder			^[19]
Against the Fall of Night	Sungazer			^[20]
October	24	Portrait of Right Now	Jocelyn Gould			^[21]

All critically reviewed albums ranked

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Number	Artist	Album	Average score	Number of reviews	Reference
1	Charles Lloyd	The Sky Will Be There Tomorrow	95	6	^[22]
2	Julian Lage	Speak to Me	91	4	^[23]
3	Arooj Aftab	Night Reign	89	12	^[24]
4	Blue Lab Beats	Blue Eclipse	87	4	^[25]
5	Vijay Iyer	Compassion	86	6	^[26]
6	Mary Halvorson	Cloudward	84	8	^[27]
Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento	Milton + Esperanza	84	5	^[28]

Deaths

January 25 – Bruno Amstad, Swiss jazz singer, 59 (cancer)^[29]
January 26
- Dean Brown, American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician, 68 (cancer)^[30]
- Michel Hausser, French jazz vibraphonist, 96^[31]
January 29 – Tony Cedras, South African jazz musician, 71^[32]
March 3 – Eleanor Collins, 104, Canadian jazz singer and TV host^[33]
April 5 – Phil Nimmons, Canadian jazz clarinetist, 100^[34]
April 7 – Joe Viera, German saxophonist and festival founder, 91^[35]
May 7 – Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger, 88^[36]
June 9 – Alex Riel, Danish jazz and rock drummer, 83^[37]
August 3 – Shaun Martin, American jazz keyboardist from Snarky Puppy, 45^[38]
August 23 – Russell Malone, American jazz guitarist, 60^[39]
November 12 – Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer, 99^[40]

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