1965 in jazz

1965 in jazz
File:PreservationHall1960sSavannahGrandfather.jpg Jazz band playing at Preservation Hall, New Orleans, 1965, including Kid Sheik Colar, Captain John Handy, and drummer Alex Bigard.
Decade	1960s in jazz
Music	1965 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1964 in jazz – 1966 in jazz

1965 in jazz:

Events

• Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in larger premises at 47 Frith Street, in London's Soho district.

Album releases

• Andrew Hill: Compulsion
• Archie Shepp: Fire Music
• Ben Webster: Stormy Weather
• Bobby Hutcherson: Components
• Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue
• Don Cherry: Complete Communion
• Eddie Palmieri: Mozambique
• Frank Wright: Frank Wright Trio
• Gabor Szabo: Gypsy
• Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
• Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues
• Horace Silver: Song for My Father
• John Coltrane: Ascension, A Love Supreme
• John Coltrane: Meditations
• Lee Morgan: Cornbread
• Lee Morgan: The Gigolo
• Marion Brown: Marion Brown Quartet
• Milford Graves: Percussion Ensemble
• New York Art Quartet: Mohawk
• Ornette Coleman: Chappaqua Suite
• Patty Waters: Sings
• Prince Lasha: Inside Story
• Roland Kirk: Rip, Rig and Panic
• Roswell Rudd: Roswell Rudd
• Sam Rivers: Contours
• Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
• Sun Ra: The Magic City
• Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye
• Wayne Shorter: Soothsayer

Standards

See also: List of post-1950 jazz standards

Deaths

• Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965)
• Tadd Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965)
• Claude Thornhill (10 August 1908  – 1 July 1965)
• Earl Bostic (April 25, 1913 – October 28, 1965)

Births

• Curtis Stigers (October 18), American vocalist, saxophonist, guitarist and songwriter
• Delfeayo Marsalis (July 28), American trombonist and record producer
• Philip Harper (May 10), American trumpeter
• Ron Affif (December 30), American guitarist