2025 in jazz

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This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2025.

Events

• January 29 – February 1 – The Bodø Jazz Open takes place in Norway, featuring Solveig Slettahjell, Arve Henriksen. Rebekka Bakken and others.^[1]

Albums

Month	Day	Artist	Album	Label	Notes	Ref.
June	14	Daniel Carter	Stream of a Dream	577 Records	Featuring Matthew Putman and Federico Ughi	[2]

Deaths

• January 12 – Mark Izu, American double bass player and composer, 70^[3]
• January 14 – Teddy Osei, Ghanaian saxophone player, drummer and vocalist, leader of Osibisa, 87^[4]
• March 4 – Roy Ayers, American jazz-funk vibraphonist, record producer, and composer, 84^[5]
• March 8 – Bill Ashton, British saxophonist, band leader and composer, 88^[6]
• March 14 – Bruno Romani, Italian saxophonist, flutist and composer, 65^[7]
• April 1 – George Freeman, American guitarist, 97^[8]
• April 22 – Odd Magne Gridseth, Norwegian bassist, 65^[9]
• April 26 – Andy Bey, American singer and pianist, 85^[10]
• May 12 – Yasunao Tone, Japanese jazz composer, 90^[11]

See also

• List of 2025 albums
• List of jazz festivals
• List of years in jazz
• 2025 in music

References

1. "Program 2025". Bodo Jazz Open. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
2. "Stream of a Dream". All About Jazz. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
3. Tomo, Hirai (January 16, 2025). "Mark Izu, pioneer of Asian American Jazz Movement, passes at 70". Nichi Bei News. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
4. Mark Wilberforce (16 January 2025). "Ghanaian music legend who founded Afro-rock band Osibisa dies". BBC News. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
5. Horowitz, Steven J. (March 5, 2025). "Roy Ayers, 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine' Musician and 'Coffy' Composer, Dies at 84". Variety. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
6. Scotney, Sebastian (March 10, 2025). "Bill Ashton OBE (1936-2025) – A Tribute". UK Jazz News. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
7. "Addio a Bruno Romani, icona jazz internazionale". UdineToday (in Italian). 16 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
8. Edgar, Hannah (2025-04-01). "George Freeman, a trailblazing jazz guitarist who enjoyed a late-career renaissance, dies at 97". Chicago Tribune.
9. Memorial page for Odd Magne Gridseth. hovdengravferdsbyra.vareminnesider.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 May 2025.
10. Enright, Ed (April 29, 2025). "Vocalist Andy Bey Dies at 85". Downbeat.com. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
11. Greenberger, Alex (May 14, 2025). "Yasunao Tone, Fluxus Artist Who Turned Sound Visual, Dies at 90". ARTnews. Retrieved May 14, 2025.

External links

• Jazz portal