1971 in jazz

1971 in jazz
File:Jean-Luc Ponty und Wolfgang Dauner beim MPS Festival 1971 (Heinrich Klaffs Collection 41).jpg Jean-Luc Ponty and Wolfgang Dauner, MPS Jazz festival 1971
Decade	1970s in jazz
Music	1971 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
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List of years in jazz
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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).

July

• 2 – The 18th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 2 – 5).

September

• 17 – The 14th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 17 – 19).

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

• 1970s in jazz
• List of years in jazz
• 1971 in music