This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1969. Events The New England Conservatory becomes the first traditional music conservatory to offer a jazz studies course. June 18 The 3rd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 18 – 22). July 3 – The 16th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 3 – 6). The 1st day featured Sun Ra and Space Arkestra, Bill Evans / Jeremy Steig, and George Benson The 2nd day featured Jeff Beck Group, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull (Recorded) The 3rd day featured Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, John Mayall, and Miles Davis Quintet (Recorded) The 4th day featured Sly & The Family Stone, O.C. Smith, and Dave Brubeck. August 18 – The 9th National Jazz and Blues Festival started in Plumpton, East Sussex, England (August 8 – 10). 19 – Trumpeter Miles Davis uses a wah-wah pedal on Bitches Brew (August 19 – 21). September 19 – The 12th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 19 – 21). Album releases Bill Evans: Quiet Now Don Cherry: Mu Pharoah Sanders: Karma Miles Davis: In a Silent Way Art Ensemble of Chicago: People in Sorrow George Russell: Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature Art Ensemble of Chicago: Reese and the Smooth Ones Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Humility in the Light of the Creator Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra Dollar Brand: African Piano Gunter Hampel: The 8th of July 1969 Roland Kirk: Rahsaan Rahsaan Pharoah Sanders: Jewels of Thought Archie Shepp: Yasmina, a Black Woman Art Ensemble of Chicago: A Jackson In Your House Charles Tolliver: The Ringer Joe McPhee: Underground Railroad Jan Garbarek: Esoteric Circle Ornette Coleman: Crisis Pharoah Sanders: Izipho Zam (My Gifts) Sunny Murray: Homage to Africa Chick Corea: Is Dewey Redman: Tarik Willem Breuker: Lunchconcert For Three Barrel-organs Joe Harriott: Hum-Dono Peter Brötzmann: Nipples Charles Earland: Black Talk! Wolfgang Dauner: Fuer Eric Kloss: To Hear Is To See! Leon Thomas: Spirits Known and Unknown Miroslav Vitous: Mountain in the Clouds Tony Williams: Emergency! Archie Shepp: Blasé Dollar Brand: African Sketchbook John McLaughlin: Extrapolation Wayne Shorter: Super Nova Stanley Cowell: Blues for the Viet Cong Stanley Cowell: Brilliant Circles Wolfgang Dauner: The Oimels Horace Tapscott: West Coast Hot Liberation Music Orchestra: Song for Che Deaths January 4 – Paul Chambers, American bassist (born 1935). 19 – Alcide Pavageau, American upright bassist (born