Editing 1969 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[Paul Chambers]], jazz bassist (b. 1935) (tuberculosis)
*[[January 17]] – [[Grażyna Bacewicz]],  Polish composer and violinist (b. 1909)
*[[February 15]] – [[Pee Wee Russell]], jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
*[[February 20]] – [[Ernest Ansermet]], conductor (b. 1883)
*[[February 23]] – [[Constantin Silvestri]], conductor and composer (b. 1913)
*[[March 25]] – [[Billy Cotton]], bandleader (b. 1899)
*[[March 26]] – [[Clara Dow]], operatic soprano (b. 1883)
*[[April 2]] – [[Fortunio Bonanova]], baritone (b. 1895)<ref>{{cite book|author=Everett Grant Jarvis|title=Final Curtain: Deaths of Noted Movie and TV Personalities, 1912-1996|publisher=Carol Publishing Group|year=1995|page=142}}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Fanny Anitùa]], operatic contralto (b. 1887)
*[[April 10]] – [[Fernando Ortiz Fernández|Fernando Ortiz]], ethnomusicologist (b. 1881)
*[[April 20]] – [[Benny Benjamin]] ("Papa Zita"), drummer (b. 1925) (stroke)
*[[April 22]] – [[Amparo Iturbi]], Spanish pianist (b. 1898)
*[[April 23]] – [[Krzysztof Komeda]], jazz musician and composer (b. 1931) (haematoma)
*[[April 29]] – [[Julius Katchen]], pianist (b. 1926) (cancer)
*[[May 1]] – [[Ella Logan]], actress and singer (b. 1913)
*[[May 17]] – [[Maria Olszewska]], operatic contralto (b. 1892)
*[[May 22]] – [[Nicola Salerno]], Italian lyricist (b. 1910)
*[[May 9]] – [[Elias Breeskin]], violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1896)
*[[May 23]] – [[Jimmy McHugh]], US composer and pianist (b. 1894)
*[[June 14]]
**[[Roberto Firpo]], Argentine tango pianist (b. 1884)
**[[Wynonie Harris]], R & B singer ("Mister Blues") (b. 1915)
*[[June 17]] – [[Rita Abatzi]], [[rebetiko]] musician (b. 1914)
*[[June 22]] – [[Judy Garland]], singer and actress (b. [[1922 in music|1922]]) (overdose of barbiturates)<ref>{{cite book|title=Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland|first=Gerald|last=Clarke|author-link=Gerald Clarke (author)|publisher=[[Random House]]|location=New York City|year=2001|isbn=978-0-375-50378-8|title-link=Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland|page=422}}</ref>
*[[July 3]] – [[Brian Jones]], guitarist, founder member of [[The Rolling Stones]] (b. 1942) (drowned)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jul/08/archive-brian-jones-death-1969 |title=From the archive, 8 July 1969: Jones drowned while 'drunk and drugged' |date=8 July 2011 |work=The Guardian |access-date=27 March 2020 |archive-date=17 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117071338/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jul/08/archive-brian-jones-death-1969|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[July 5]] – [[Wilhelm Backhaus]], pianist (b. 1884)
*[[July 10]] – [[Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips]], church music composer (b. 1884)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=42kbAQAAMAAJ|title=The Oxford Companion to Black British History|author1=David Dabydeen|author2=John Gilmore|author3=Cecily Jones|publisher=Pennsylvania State University (Oxford University Press)|year=2008|isbn=978-0-199-2389-41|page=463}}</ref>
*[[July 11]] – [[Hina Spani]], operatic soprano (b. 1896)
*[[July 20]] – [[Roy Hamilton]], American singer (b. 1929; stroke)<ref>{{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|publisher=Omnibus|year=1999|isbn=9780711975484|page=167}}</ref>
*[[July 28]] – [[Frank Loesser]], US songwriter (b. 1910)<ref>Krebs, Alvin, "Frank Loesser, Composer, Dead," ''The New York Times'', July 29, 1969, p. 1</ref>
*[[August 6]] – [[Theodor Adorno]], exponent of the "[[New musicology|New Music]]" (b. 1903)
*[[August 11]] – [[Miriam Licette]], operatic soprano (b. 1885)
*[[August 13]] – [[Jacob do Bandolim]], mandolin player and composer (b. 1918)
*[[September 5]] – [[Josh White]], blues musician (b. 1914)
*[[September 14]] – [[Alice Zeppilli]], operatic soprano (b. 1885)
*[[October 3]] – [[Skip James]], blues musician (b. 1902)<ref>{{cite book| first= Tony
| last= Russell| year= 1997| title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray| publisher=Carlton Books
| location= Dubai| page= 123| isbn= 1-85868-255-X}}</ref>
*[[October 4]] – [[Natalino Otto]], Italian singer (b. 1912)
*[[October 8]] – [[Eduardo Ciannelli]], Italian actor and singer (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mayer |first1=Geoff |title=Encyclopedia of American Film Serials |date=2017 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786477623 |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CYSDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Eduardo+Ciannelli%22&pg=PA74 |access-date=3 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[October 22]] – [[Tommy Edwards]], singer (b. 1922)
*[[November 8]] – [[Ricardo Aguirre]], protest singer (b. 1939)
*[[November 13]] – [[Boris Kroyt]], classical violinist and violist, member of the [[Budapest String Quartet]] from 1936 to 1967 (b. 1897)
*[[November 18]] – [[Ted Heath (bandleader)|Ted Heath]], bandleader (b. 1902)
*[[November 23]] – [[Spade Cooley]], swing musician and murderer (b. 1910) (heart attack)
*[[December 1]] – [[Magic Sam]], blues musician (b. 1937) (heart attack)<ref>{{cite book |title=Deep Blues |first=Robert |last=Palmer |author-link=Robert Palmer (American writer) |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |pages=267, 269}}</ref>
*[[December 5]] – [[James "Stump" Johnson]], blues pianist (b. 1902)
*[[December 6]] – [[Walther Aeschbacher]], Swiss conductor and composer (b. 1901)
*[[December 22]] – [[Wilbur Hatch]], pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1902)
*[[December 24]] – [[Mary Barratt Due]], pianist, music teacher (b. 1888)
*''date unknown'' – [[Marcel LaFosse]], trumpeter (b. 1895)
*''probable'' – [[Mississippi Joe Callicott]], blues musician (b. 1900)