This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1965. Events July 1 – The 12th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 1 – 4). Unknown dates Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in larger premises at 47 Frith Street, in London's Soho district. Carla Bley divorced Paul Bley. Album releases Andrew Hill: Compulsion Archie Shepp: Fire Music Ben Webster: Stormy Weather Bobby Hutcherson: Components Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue Don Cherry: Complete Communion Eddie Palmieri: Mozambique Frank Wright: Frank Wright Trio Gabor Szabo: Gypsy George Finola: Jazz Of The Chosen Few Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues Horace Silver: Song for My Father John Coltrane: A Love Supreme John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Lee Morgan: Cornbread Lee Morgan: The Gigolo Marion Brown: Marion Brown Quartet Milford Graves: Percussion Ensemble Wes Montgomery: Bumpin' (album) New York Art Quartet: Mohawk Ornette Coleman: Chappaqua Suite Patty Waters: Sings Prince Lasha: Inside Story Roland Kirk: Rip, Rig and Panic Roswell Rudd: Roswell Rudd Sam Rivers: Contours Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two Sun Ra: The Magic City Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye Wayne Shorter: Soothsayer Standards Deaths January 29 – Jack Hylton, English pianist, composer, band leader, and impresario (born 1892). February 12 – Bonnie Wetzel, American upright bassist (born 1926). 15 – Nat King Cole, American pianist and singer (born 1919). March 8 – Tadd Dameron, American composer, arranger, and pianist (born 1917). May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (born 1911). 14 – Joe Sanders, American pianist, singer, and bandleader (born 1896). 24 – Denzil Best, American percussionist and composer (born 1917). June 25 – Keg Purnell, American drummer (born 1915). July 1 – Claude Thornhill, American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (born 1909). 4 – Valdemar Eiberg, Danish musician and orchestra leader (born 1892). 8 – Willie Dennis, American trombonist (born 1926). 14 – Spencer Williams, African-American pianist, singer, and composer (born 1889). August 10 – Freddie Slack, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1910). September 15 – Steve Brown, American upright bassist (born 1896). October 10 – Gerorge Tucker, American upright bassist (born 1927). 27 – Edythe Wright, American singer (born 1914). 28 – Earl Bostic, American alto saxophonist (born 1913). November 6 – Clarence Williams, American pianist, vocalist, and composer (born 1898). 14 – Buster Harding, Canadian-born