2025 in jazz

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

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

• January 12 – Mark Izu, American double bass player and composer, 70^[12]
• January 14 – Teddy Osei, Ghanaian saxophone player, drummer and vocalist, leader of Osibisa, 87^[13]
• March 4 – Roy Ayers, American jazz-funk vibraphonist, record producer, and composer, 84^[14]
• March 8 – Bill Ashton, British saxophonist, band leader and composer, 88^[15]
• March 14 – Bruno Romani, Italian saxophonist, flutist and composer, 65^[16]
• April 1 – George Freeman, American guitarist, 97^[17]
• April 22 – Odd Magne Gridseth, Norwegian bassist, 65^[18]
• April 26 – Andy Bey, American singer and pianist, 85^[19]
• May 12 – Yasunao Tone, Japanese jazz composer, 90^[20]
• May 23 – Lillian Boutté, American jazz singer, 75^[21]
• May 25 – Joe Ford, American jazz saxophonist, 78^[22]
• May 28 – Al Foster, American jazz drummer, 82^[23]
• June 13 – Louis Moholo, South African jazz drummer (The Blue Notes, Brotherhood of Breath, Assagai), 85^[24]
• June 17 – Charles Burrell, American bassist, 104^[25]
• July 22 – Chuck Mangione, American flugelhornist, trumpeter and composer, 84^[26]
• July 24 – Cleo Laine, English jazz singer, 97^[27]
• August 5 – Nancy King, American jazz singer, 85^[28]
• August 6 – Eddie Palmieri, American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, 88^[29]
• August 11 – Sheila Jordan, American jazz singer, 96^[30]
• September 13 – Akiko Tsuruga, Japanese jazz organist, 58^[31]
• September 26 – Jim McNeely, American jazz pianist and composer, 76^[32]
• October 26 – Jack DeJohnette, American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer, 83^[33]

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