1996 in jazz

1996 in jazz
File:Original Brass Band, New Orleans Jazz Fest, 1996.jpg Original Brass Band, New Orleans Jazz Fest, 1996
Decade	1990s in jazz
Music	1996 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1995 in jazz – 1997 in jazz

1996 in jazz:

Album releases

• Guillermo Gregorio: Approximately
• Ivo Perelman: Seeds, Visions and Counterpoint
• Michael Formanek: Nature of the Beast
• David Ware: Wisdom of Uncertainty
• Maria Schneider: Coming About
• Zeena Parkins: Mouth=Maul=Betrayer
• Kenny Wheeler: Siren's Song
• Gerry Hemingway: Perfect World
• Matthew Shipp: By the Law of Music
• Ivo Perelman: Sound Hierarchy
• Bob Neill: Triptycal
• Courtney Pine: Modern Day Jazz Stories
• Joshua Redman: Freedom in the Groove
• Branford Marsalis: The Dark Keys
• Henry Threadgill: Where's Your Cup?
• Evan Parker: Toward the Margins
• Pat Metheny Group: Quartet
• John Scofield: Quiet
• Fred Anderson: Birdhouse
• David S. Ware: Oblations and Blessings
• David S. Ware: DAO
• David S. Ware: Godspelized
• William Parker: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy

Deaths

• Alan Dawson, drummer
• Alan Littlejohn, trumpeter, flugelhorn player and bandleader
• Amancio D'Silva, guitarist and composer
• Art Porter, Jr., saxophonist
• Barney Wilen, saxophonist and composer
• Bill Doggett, pianist and organist
• Billy Byers, trombonist and arranger
• Bobby Cole
• Bobby Enriquez, pianist
• Carlos Vidal Bolado, conga drum musician
• Carmell Jones, trumpet player
• Don Grolnick, pianist and composer
• Ella Fitzgerald, vocalist
• Eva Cassidy, vocalist and guitarist
• Frankie Sakai,
• Gerry Mulligan, saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger
• Gus Bivona,
• Herb Hall, clarinetist and saxophonist
• Howard Wyeth, drummer and pianist
• Ike Isaacs, guitarist
• Jimmy Rowles, pianist, vocalist and composer
• Johnny Costa, pianist
• Kid Sheik, trumpeter
• Mercer Ellington, trumpeter, composer and arranger
• Milt Larkin, trumpeter and bandleader
• Morty Corb, double-bassist
• Norma Teagarden, pianist
• Pim Jacobs, trumpeter
• Pud Brown, reed player
• Ray Leatherwood, double-bassist
• Ray Linn, trumpeter
• Ronnie Scott, tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner
• Tiny Winters, bassist and vocalist
• Viatcheslav Nazarov, trombonist, pianist and vocalist

Births

• Harry Morley
• Austin Weber

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