1969 in music

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Deaths

• February 15 - Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinetist
• February 20 - Ernest Ansermet, conductor
• March 25 - Billy Cotton, bandleader
• April 23 - Krzysztof Komeda, jazz musician and composer
• May 23 - Jimmy McHugh, US composer and pianist
• June 14 - Wynonie Harris, R & B singer known as Mister Blues
• June 22 - Judy Garland
• July 3 - Brian Jones, of The Rolling Stones
• July 5 - Wilhelm Backhaus, pianist
• July 26 - Frank Loesser, US songwriter
• August 6 - Theodor Adorno, exponent of the "New Music"
• October 3 - Skip James, blues musician
• October 4 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer
• December 12 - Magic Sam, blues musician
• Nicola Salerno, Italian lyricist