This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1959. Events May 4 – 1st Annual Grammy Awards Ella Fitzgerald awarded Best Vocal Performance, Female for the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook, and Best Jazz Performance, Individual for the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook. Count Basie awarded Best Jazz Performance, Group and Best Performance by a Dance Band for the album Basie. Billy May awarded Best Performance by an Orchestra for the album Billy May's Big Fat Brass. July 2 – The 6th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 2 – 5). August 7-9 - Playboy Jazz Festival - First indoor Jazz Festival. Chicago, Illinois. 25 – Between sets at Birdland in New York City, Miles Davis is beaten by police and jailed. November 29 – 2nd Annual Grammy Awards Frank Sinatra awarded Album Of The Year, Best Arrangement, and Best Vocal Performance, Male for the song "Come Dance With Me". Ella Fitzgerald awarded Best Vocal Performance, Female for the song "But Not for Me", and Best Jazz Performance – Soloist for the album Ella Swings Lightly. Jonah Jones awarded Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group for the album I Dig Chicks. Duke Ellington awarded Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1959 (more than 5 minutes duration), and Best Performance by a Dance Band, and Best Sound Track Album – Background Score from a Motion Picture or Television for composition and soundtrack for the Motion Picture Anatomy of a Murder. Nat King Cole awarded Best Performance by a "Top 40" Artist for "Midnight Flyer". Andre Previn, Ken Darby awarded Best Sound Track Album, Original Cast – Motion Picture or Television for the Motion Picture Porgy and Bess. Album releases By Artist Name Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball Takes Charge, In San Francisco (Riverside) Cannonball Adderley & John Coltrane – Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (Mercury) Chet Baker – Chet (Riverside) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Holiday for Skins (Blue Note) Dave Brubeck – Time Out (album) (Columbia) Donald Byrd – Fuego, Byrd in Hand (Blue Note) Sonny Clark – My Conception (Blue Note) Ornette Coleman – Tomorrow Is the Question! (OJC) The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic) Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (Columbia) Walter Davis – Davis Cup (album) (Blue Note) Kenny Dorham – Quiet Kenny (New Jazz) Duke Ellington – The Ellington