This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1961.
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- February
- 4 – Alphonse Picou, American clarinetist and composer (born 1878).
- 7 – Noah Lewis, American harmonica player (born 1891).
- 22 – Nick LaRocca, New Orleans cornetist and trumpeter (born 1889).
- March
- April
- 29 – Miff Mole, American trombonist and bandleader (born 1898).
- July
- August
- October
- Unknown date
- January
- February
- 5 – Clark Tracey, British drummer, band leader, and composer.
- 9 – Steve Wilson, American saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.
- 10 – Paolo Fresu, Italian trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger.
- 12 – Knut Reiersrud, Norwegian guitarist.
- 21 – Mike Nielsen, Irish guitarist, composer, and educator.
- March
- 2 – Harald Dahlstrøm, Norwegian pianist.
- 5 – Marcelo Peralta, Argentine saxophones, piano, accordion, the Latin American aerophones, and composer.
- 14 – Joe Ascione, American drummer (died 2016).
- 23 – Eivind Aarset, Norwegian guitarist.
- 25 – Makoto Ozone, Japanese pianist.
- 27 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist, producer, arranger, composer, singer and songwriter.
- 29 – Ken Stubbs, English alto saxophonist, and composer.[3]
- 30 – Tina May, English singer.
- 31 – Mark Lockheart, British tenor saxophonist, Loose Tubes.
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- 10 – Jonathan Butler, South African singer-songwriter and guitarist.
- 11 – Xavier Desandre Navarre, French percussionist and drummer.
- 18 – Bo Sundström, Swedish singer and songwriter, Bo Kaspers orkester.
- 18 – Wynton Marsalis, American trumpeter.
- 20
- 25 – Franck Amsallem, French-American pianist, arranger, composer, and singer.
- 27 – Igor Butman, Russian saxophonist.
- November
- December
- Unknown date