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
See also	1970 in jazz – 1972 in jazz

1971 in jazz:

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

• Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971), singer and trumpeter
• Wynton Kelly (December 2, 1931 — April 12, 1971)
• Charlie Shavers (August 3, 1920 – July 8, 1971)

Births

• Chris Potter (January 1), American jazz saxophonist
• Gregory Porter (November), American vocalist
• Nigel Hitchcock (January 4), English saxophonist
• Stian Carstensen (January 5), Norwegian multi-instrumentalist
• Zoe Rahman (January 20), English pianist and composer

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