1963 in jazz

1963 in jazz
Joe Darensbourg playing clarinet with the Louis Armstrong combo at the Palais Royal in South Bend, IN, 1963
Decade	1960s in jazz
Music	1963 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1962 in jazz – 1964 in jazz

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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1963.

Events

May

• 15 – The 5th Annual Grammy Awards were held in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.^[1]
  • Ella Fitzgerald awarded Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson^[2]
  • Stan Getz awarded Best Jazz Performance - Soloist Or Small Group (Instrumental) for "Desafinado"
  • Stan Kenton awarded Best Jazz Performance - Large Group (Instrumental) for Adventures In Jazz
  • Vince Guaraldi awarded Best Original Jazz Composition for the composition "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" performed by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

July

• 4 – The 10th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 4 – 7).^[3]

Album releases

• Cannonball Adderley: Nippon Soul
• Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Caravan
• Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Buhaina's Delight
• Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Ugetsu
• Dave Brubeck: Time Changes
• Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue
• Donald Byrd: A New Perspective
• Betty Carter: 'Round Midnight
• Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven
• Eric Dolphy: Iron Man
• Duke Ellington: My People
• Duke Ellington: The Symphonic Ellington
• Booker Ervin: The Freedom Book
• Bill Evans: Conversations with Myself
• Grant Green: Idle Moments
• Chico Hamilton: Man from Two Worlds
• Joe Harriott: Movement
• Joe Henderson: Page One
• Andrew Hill: Black Fire
• Sheila Jordan: Portrait of Sheila
• Jackie McLean: One Step Beyond
• Jackie McLean: Destination... Out!
• Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
• Hank Mobley: No Room for Squares
• Thelonious Monk: Criss Cross
• Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream
• Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder
• Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy
• Sonny Rollins: Our Man in Jazz
• Nina Simone: No Room for Squares
• Stanley Turrentine: Soul Shoutin'
• Kai Winding: Solo: Kai Winding^[4][5]

Standards

Deaths

• Sonny Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13)
• Ike Quebec (August 17, 1918 – January 16)
• Specs Wright (September 8, 1927 – February 6)
• Castor McCord (May 17, 1907 – February 14)
• Jimmy Reynolds (August 5, 1904 – February 16)
• Addison Farmer (August 21, 1928 – February 20)
• Bobby Jaspar (February 20, 1926 – February 28)
• Irving Aaronson (February 7, 1895 – March 10)
• Lizzie Miles (March 31, 1895 – March 17)
• Gene Sedric (June 17, 1907 – April 3)
• Arvid Gram Paulsen (January 4, 1922 – April 11)
• Herbie Nichols (January 3, 1919 – April 12)
• Skinnay Ennis (August 13, 1907 – June 3)
• Bob Scobey (December 9, 1916 – June 12)
• John Adriano Acea (September 11, 1917 – July 25)
• Curtis Counce (January 23, 1926 – July 31)
• Glen Gray (June 7, 1906 – August 23)
• Sam Allen (January 30, 1909 – September)
• Joe Gordon (May 15, 1928 – November 4)
• Dinah Washington (August 29, 1924 – December 14)
• Lodewijk Parisius (July 23, 1911 – December 14)^[4][5]

Births

• Baard Slagsvold, Norwegian singer and multi-instrumentalist
• Benny Green, American pianist
• Bill Lowrey, American musical entertainer and banjoist
• Cyrus Chestnut, American pianist, songwriter and producer
• Dave Douglas, American trumpeter and composer
• Don Braden, American tenor saxophonist
• Eric Person, American saxophonist
• Eric Vloeimans, Dutch trumpeter
• Gilad Atzmon, saxophonist and writer
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban composer and pianist
• Holly Cole, Canadian singer
• Jacqui Dankworth, British singer
• Jens Johansson, Swedish pianist
• Marc Antoine, guitarist
• Marcus Roberts, American pianist
• Nelson Faria, Brazilian guitar player
• Niels Lan Doky, Danish pianist and record producer
• Nikki Iles, English composer, pianist and accordion player
• Ole Amund Gjersvik, Norwegian bassist
• Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor
• Stephanie Biddle, Canadian musician
• Steve Argüelles, English drummer
• Tierney Sutton, American singer
• Tine Asmundsen, Norwegian double-bass player
• Vigleik Storaas, Norwegian pianist

See also

• 1960s in jazz
• List of years in jazz
• 1963 in music

References

1. "Grammy Awards 1963". AwardsAndShows.com. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
2. http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/about/awards.html
3. "Newport Jazz Festival 1963 Poster". PosterAlley.ca. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
4. Listed in New Real Book, Volume I
5. Listed in The Real Jazz Book

Bibliography

• The New Real Book, Volume I. Sher Music. 1988. ISBN 0-9614701-4-3.
• The New Real Book, Volume II. Sher Music. 1991. ISBN 0-9614701-7-8.
• The New Real Book, Volume III. Sher Music. 1995. ISBN 1-883217-30-X.
• The Real Book, Volume I (6th ed.). Hal Leonard. 2004. ISBN 0-634-06038-4.
• The Real Book, Volume II (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2007. ISBN 1-4234-2452-2.
• The Real Book, Volume III (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06136-4.
• The Real Jazz Book. Warner Bros. ISBN 978-91-85041-36-7.
• The Real Vocal Book, Volume I. Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06080-5.