This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1960. Events October 16 – The Cannonball Adderley Quintet records At the Lighthouse at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California. June 30 – The 7th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (June 30 – July 4). Album releases Art Blakey The Big Beat A Night in Tunisia Tina Brooks: True Blue Betty Carter: The Modern Sound" June Christy "The Cool School" "Off-Beat" Ornette Coleman: "Change of the Century" John Coltrane: Giant StepsEric Dolphy: Outward BoundGil Evans: Out of the Cool Jimmy Giuffre: Piece for Clarinet and String Orchestra/Mobiles Joe Harriott: Southern Horizons the Jazztet "Big City Sounds"Meet the JazztetSam Jones: The Soul Society Duke Jordan: Flight to Jordan Stan Kenton: Road ShowHerbie Mann: Flute, Brass, Vibes and PercussionCharles Mingus: Charles Mingus Presents Charles MingusHank Mobley: Soul Station Modern Jazz QuartetPyramid European Concert Wes MontgomeryThe Incredible Jazz Guitar"Movin' Along" Oliver Nelson: Taking Care of Business David Newman & James Clay: The Sound of the Wide Open Spaces!!!!Art Pepper: Gettin' TogetherMax Roach: We Insist!Charlie Rouse: Takin' Care of BusinessGeorge Russell "George Russell Sextet at the Five Spot"Jazz in the Space Age Stratusphunk Gunther Schuller [John Lewis]: Jazz AbstractionsHorace Silver: Horace-Scope" Jimmy Smith: Back at the Chicken Shack Cecil Taylor: The World of Cecil Taylor Clark Terry: Color Changes Mel Tormé: Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley Lennie Tristano: The New Tristano Fats Waller: Handful of Keys (released posthumously) Randy Weston: Uhuru Afrika Phil Woods: Rights of Swing John Wright: South Side Soul Deaths April 11 – Zilas Görling, Swedish saxophonist (born 1911). 13 – Beverly Kenney, American singer (born 1932). June 12 – Isidore Barbarin, American cornet and alto horn player (born 1871). July 3 – Lee Collins, American trumpeter (born 1901). 5 – Bill Johnson, American saxophonist, clarinetist, and arranger (born 1912). 30 – Arv Garrison, American guitarist (born 1922). August Jimmy Bertrand, American drummer (born 1900). September 8 – Oscar Pettiford, American upright bassist, cellist, and composer (born 1922). 24 – Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian-born composer (born 1905). October 10 – June Cole, American bassist, tubist, and singer (born 1903). November 24 – Edgar Meyer, American bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. Unknown date Lawrence Duhé, clarinetist, and bandleader (born 1887). Births January 1 – Liu Yuan, Chinese saxophonist. 3 – Marla Glen, American singer. 8 Dave Weckl, American drummer. Lee Tomboulian, American pianist. 16 Richard Elliot, Scottish-American saxophonist. Wilhelm