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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1971.
Events
May
- 2 – The 5th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (May 2 – June 24).[1]
July
- 2 – The 18th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 2 – 5).[2]
September
- 17 – The 14th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 17 – 19).[3]
Album releases
- Carla Bley: Escalator Over The Hill
- Charles Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music
- Paul Bley: Dual Unity
- Art Ensemble of Chicago: Phase One
- Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Inner Mounting Flame
- Weather Report: Weather Report
- Jean-Luc Ponty: Open Strings
- Pharoah Sanders: Black Unity
- Lol Coxhill: Ear of the Beholder
- Keith Jarrett: Facing You
- Mike Westbrook: Metropolis
- Willem Breuker: Instant Composers Pool 008
- Jan Garbarek: Sart
- Chick Corea: The Gathering
- Keith Tippett: Septober Energy
- Derek Bailey: Solo Guitar
- George Russell: Listen to the Silence
- Ornette Coleman: Science Fiction
- Spontaneous Music Ensemble: So What Do You Think
- Freddie Hubbard: First Light
- Keith Jarrett: Expectations
- Chick Corea: Piano Improvisations
- Joe Zawinul: Zawinul
- Joe McPhee: Trinity
- Oliver Nelson: Swiss Suite
- Terje Rypdal: Terje Rypdal
- Alice Coltrane: Universal Consciousness
- Paul Winter: Icarus
- Alice Coltrane: World Galaxy
- Paul Winter: Road
- Donald Byrd: Ethiopian Knights
- Tim Weisberg: Tim Weisberg
- Stanley Turrentine: Sugar
- Stanley Turrentine: Salt Song
Deaths
- April
- 12 – Wynton Kelly (39), Jamaican pianist and compose
- July
- 6 – Louis Armstrong (69), American singer and trumpeter
- 8 – Charlie Shavers (50), American trumpeter
Births
- January
- 1 – Chris Potter, American saxophonist
- 4 – Nigel Hitchcock, English saxophonist
- 5 – Stian Carstensen, Norwegian multi-instrumentalist
- 20 – Zoe Rahman, English pianist and composer
- September
- 20 – Sean J. Kennedy, American drummer
- November
- 4 – Gregory Porter, American vocalist
See also
References
- ^ "Montreux Jazz Festival 1971 Setlists". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
- ^ "Newport Jazz Festival 1971 Poster". Ebay.com. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
- ^ "The Monterey Jazz Festival 1971 Poster". EarlNewmanPrints.com. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
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