2018 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2018.

2018 in jazz
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Events

January

• 11
  • The 17th All Ears festival started in Oslo (January 11–14).[1]
  • The 4th annual Tucson Jazz Festival started in Tucson, Arizona (January 11 – 21).[2]
• 19 – The 37th annual Djangofestival started on Cosmopolite in Oslo, Norway (January 19–20).[3]
• 28 – The Gustav Lundgren Trio performed a tribute to Django Reinhardt at Stockholm Concert Hall.[4]
• 31
  • The 7th Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway (January 31 – February 3).[5]
  • The 13th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway (January 31 – February 4).[6]

February

• 1 – The 20th Polarjazz Festival started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (February 1 – 4).[7]
• 23 – Kirsti Huke received the 2017 Radka Toneff Memorial Award.[8]
• 25 – The band Hegge was awarded the 2017 jazz Spellemannprisen.[9]

March

• 2 – The 14th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 2 – 4).[10]
• 8 – The Turku Jazz Festival started in Åbo (March 8 – 11).[11]
• 16 – The Blue House Youth Jazz Festival started in Stockholm (March 16 – 18).[12]
• 23
  • The 19th Cape Town International Jazz Festival started in Cape Town, South Africa (March 23 – 24).[13]
  • The 45th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 23 – 25). The opening was by Norwegian jazz poet Jan Erik Vold, warning about political misdirections of our time, followed by the opening concert signed Arild Andersen.[14]

April

• 23 – The 7th Torino Jazz Festival started in Turin (April 23–30).[15]
• 25 – The 32nd April Jazz Espoo started (April 25 – 29).[16]
• 30 – The International Jazz Day.[17]

May

• 4
  • The Balejazz started in Balestrand (May 4 – 6).[18]
  • The 29th MaiJazz started in Stavanger, Norway (May 4 – 9).[19]
• 9 – The 14th AnJazz, the Hamar Jazz Festival started at Hamar, Norway (May 9 – 13).[20]
• 11 – The 17th All Ears festival started in Oslo (January 11–14).[1]
• 24 – The 17th Festival Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés started in Paris, France (May 24 – June 4).[21]
• 25 – The 46th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 25 – June 2).[22]

June

• 12
  • The Bergenfest started in Bergen (June 12 – 16).[23]
  • The Norwegian Wood music festival started in Oslo (June 12 – 16).[24]

July

• 4 – The Kongsberg Jazzfestival opened at Kongsberg consert (July 4 – 7).[25]
• 6 – The Baltic Jazz festival started in Dalsbruk (July 6 – 8).[26]
• 7
  • The 40th Copenhagen Jazz Festival start in Copenhagen, Denmark (July 7 – 16).[27]
  • The 22nd Skånevik Bluesfestival started in Skånevik, Norway, with Jeff Beck as headliner (July 7 – 9).[28]
• 12 – The 17th Stavernfestivalen started in Stavern, Norway (July 12 – 14).[29]
• 13
  • The 43rd North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands ( July 7–9).[30]
  • The 45th Umbria Jazz Festival start in Perugia, Italy (July 13 – 22).[31]
• 14
  • The 30th Aarhus Jazz Festival started in Aarhus, Denmark (July 14 – 21).[32]
  • The 54th Pori Jazz Festival started in Pori, Finland (July 14 – 22).[33]
• 16 – The Moldejazz start in Molde (July 16 – 21).[34]
• 17
  • The 71st Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France (July 17 – 21).[35]
  • The 42nd Jazz de Vitoria start in Gasteiz, Spain (July 17 – 21).[36]
• 25 – The 23rd Canal Street started in Arendal, Norway (July 25 – 28).[37]
• 27 – The 41st Jazz in Marciac started in Marciac, France (July 27 – August 15).[38]

August

• 3
  • The 62nd Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (August 3 – 5).[39]
  • The Nišville International Jazz Festival started in Niš, Serbia (August 3 – 13).[40]
• 8
  • The 19th Øyafestivalen started in Oslo, Norway (August 8 – 11).[41]
  • The 32nd Sildajazz started in Haugesund, Norway (August 8 – 12).[42]
• 9 – The Tromsø Jazz Festival started in Tromsø (August 9 – 12).[43]
• 10 – The 34th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (August 10 – 12).[44]
• 11 – The 33rd Oslo Jazzfestival started in Oslo, Norway (August 11 – 18).[45]
• 17 – The Parkenfestivalen started in Bodø (August 17–18).[46]
• 30 – The 14th Punktfestivalen opened in Kristiansand (August 30 - September 1|).[47]

September

• 21 – The 61st Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 21 – 23).[48]

October

• 17 – The 54th Prague International Jazz Festival started in Prague (March 17 – October 6).[49]
• 18 – The 36th DølaJazz started in Lillehammer (October 18 – 21).[50]
• 22 – Vocalist Veronica Swift, the daughter of singer Stephanie Nakasian and the late pianist Hod O’Brien, was attacked on subway platform in New York City.[51]
• 25 – The 40th Guinness Cork Jazz Festival started in Cork City, Ireland (October 25 – 29).[52]

November

• 1 – The 55th JazzFest Berlin, also known as the Berlin Jazz Festival started in Berlin (November 1 – 4).[53]

December

• The 24th Umbria Jazz Winter started in Orvieto, Italy (December 20 - January 1).[54]

Albums released

January

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
5	Contra Puncta	CMC Ensemble feat. Michel Godard	Losen	Produced by C.M.C. Ensemble	[55]
19	Contra La Indecisión	Bobo Stenson Trio (Anders Jormin, Jon Fält)	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[56]
	Elvesang	Sigurd Hole	Elvesang		[57]
	Invisible Threads	John Surman with Nelson Ayres and Rob Waring	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[58]
	Lucus	Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[59]
	Obsidian	Kit Downes	ECM		[60]
26	Cinema Scenes	Klaus Paier - Asja Valcic	ACT		[61]
	Laila Biali	Laila Biali	ACT	Produced by Ben Wittman & Laila Biali	[62]
	Octopus	Kris Davis & Craig Taborn	Pyroclastic Records	Produced by David Breskin	[63]
	Rousilvo	Dine Doneff	ECM		[64]
31	Sparkling	Tom Ibarra	Tom Ibarra		[65]

February

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
2	Cosmic Playground	Chris Gall Trio	Edition Collage		[66][67]
	Delights Of Decay	Batagraf	Jazzland	Produced by Jon Balke, Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim	[68]
	Live at Victoria	Solveig Slettahjell	Jazzland	Produced by Solveig Slettahjell	[69]
	Modern Lore	Julian Lage	Mack Avenue		[70]
9	A Humdrum Star	GoGo Penguin	Blue Note		[67][71]
	Joy Ride	John Raymond & Real Feel	Sunnyside		[67][72]
	Live in Europe	Melody Gardot	Decca		[67][73]
	Thought You Knew	Snowpoet (Lauren Kinsella, Chris Hyson)	Edition Records		[67][74]
	Twio	Walter Smith III Trio	Whirlwind		[67][75]
13	Heat	Knut Reiersrud Band	Jazzland		[76]
16	Descansado - Songs for Film	Norma Winstone	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[67][77]
	For 2 Akis	Shinya Fukumori Trio	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[67][78]
	Romaria	Andy Sheppard Quartet	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[79]
	Run Boy, Run	Gurls (Hanna Paulsberg, Ellen Andrea Wang, Rohey Taalah)	Grappa	GRCD4571	[80]
	Travelers	Nicolas Masson, Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[81]
23	A Novel Of Anomaly	Andreas Schaerer	ACT	Produced by Siggi Loch	[82]
	Opus	Al Di Meola	earMUSIC		[83]
	Pilgrim	Janne Mark with Arve Henriksen	ACT	Produced by Esben Eyermann and Janne Mark	[84]
26	Animal Image	Verneri Pohjola, Mika Kallio	Edition		[85]
28	Visions: Coast to Coast Connection	Bob Holz feat. Stanley Clarke	MVD Audio		[86]

March

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
2	After the Fall	Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette	ECM		[87]
	Ravensburg	Mathias Eick	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[88]
9	Atonement	Bendik Hofseth	C+C Records	Jazz	[89]
	Joy	Karin Krog	Meantime Records	Jazz (vinyl)	[89]
	Traces of You	Kristin Asbjørnsen	Global Sonics / Øra		[89][90]
23	In-House Science	Arild Andersen with Paolo Vinaccia, and Tommy Smith	ECM		[91]
	Oslo	Michael Wollny, feat. The Norwegian Wind Ensemble and Geir Lysne	ACT	Produced by Siggi Loch	[92]
	Notis	Kjersti Stubø Quintet including additional Jørn Øien, Håvard Stubø, Mats Eilertsen, and Håkon Mjåset Johansen	Bolage		[93]
	Powered By Life	Dalia Faitelson	Losen	Produced by Dalia Faitelson	[94]
	Returnings	Jakob Bro with Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Morgan, and Jon Christensen	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[95]
	Wartburg	Michael Wollny Trio Live	ACT	Produced by Siggi Loch	[96]

April

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
6	Polarity	Hoff Ensemble - Jan Gunnar Hoff, Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive	2L	Produced by Morten Lindberg	[97]
20	Barxeta II	Per Mathisen & Jan Gunnar Hoff feat. Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez	Losen	Produced by Jan Gunnar Hoff and Per Mathisen	[98]
	Freedoms Trio II	Steinar Aadnekvam	Losen	Produced by Steinar Aadnekvam	[99]
	Kudu	Anteloper (Jaimie Branch, Jason Nazary)	International Anthem Recording Company	Produced by Jaimie Branch, Jason Nazary	[100]

May

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
18	A Suite of Poems	Ketil Bjørnstad, Anneli Drecker, poems by Lars Saabye Christensen	ECM		[101]
25	Still Dreaming	Joshua Redman, Ron Miles, Scott Colley, Brian Blade	Nonesuch	Produced by Joshua Redman	[102]

June

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
15	Open Land - Meeting John Abercrombie	John Abercrombie	ECM	DVD	[103]

July

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
18	e.s.t. songbook - Volume 2 - Buch	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	ACT		[104]

August

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
31	Helsinki Songs	Trygve Seim	ECM		[105]
	Living Being II - Night Walker	Vincent Peirani	ACT	Produced by Vincent Peirani	[106]
	The Other Side	Tord Gustavsen Trio	ECM		[107]

September

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
7	Temporary Kings	Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson	ECM		[108]
14	Marcin Wasilewski Trio Live	Marcin Wasilewski Trio	ECM		[109]
28	The Dream Thief	Shai Maestro, Jorge Roeder, and Ofri Nehemya	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[110]
	Summerwind	Lars Danielsson	ACT	Produced by Siggi Loch	[111]

October

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
5	Bay Of Rainbows	Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, and Joey Baron	ECM		[112]
	Where The River Goes	Wolfgang Muthspiel, Ambrose Akinmusire, Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, and Eric Harland	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[113]
19	La Fenice	Keith Jarrett	ECM		[114]
26	Christmas With My Friends VI	Nils Landgren	ACT	Produced by Nils Landgren with Johan Norberg	[115]
	My Soul Kitchen	Ida Sand	ACT	Produced by Nils Landgren and Siggi Loch	[116]

November

Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
2	Lebroba	Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, and Bill Frisell	ECM		[117]
	Lucent Waters	Florian Weber, Ralph Alessi, Linda May Han Oh, and Nasheet Waits	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[118]
9	The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles	Art Ensemble of Chicago	ECM	21xCD	[119]

Deaths

January

• 4 – Ray Thomas, British flautist and singer, The Moody Blues (born 1941).[120]
• 14
  • Bill Hughes, American trombonist and bandleader (born 1930).[121]
  • Marlene VerPlanck, American singer (born 1933).[122]
• 20 – Terry Evans, American singer and guitarist (born 1937).[123]
• 22 – Billy Hancock, American singer, guitarist, bassist, and multiinstrumentalist (born 1946).
• 23 – Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, singer, and composer (born 1939).[124]
• 25 – Tommy Banks, Canadian pianist (born 1936).[125]
• 28
  • Eddie Shaw, American saxophonist (born 1937).[126]
  • Coco Schumann, German guitarist (born 1924).[127]
• 29 – Asmund Bjørken, Norwegian accordionist and saxophonist (born 1933).[128]

February

• 3 – Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, American drummer (born 1952).[129]
• 5 – Ove Stokstad, Norwegian printmaker, clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1939).[130]
• 7 – John Perry Barlow, American lyricist, poet, and essayist (born 1925).[131]
• 8 – Algia Mae Hinton, American guitarist and singer (born 1929).
• 9 – Wesla Whitfield, American singer (born 1947).[132]
• 11 – Vic Damone, American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1928).[133]
• 18 – Didier Lockwood, French violinist, Magma (born 1956).
• 22 – Errol Buddle, Australian bassoonist and saxophonist (born 1928).[134]

March

• 4 – Russell Solomon, American entrepreneur, art collector, and founder of the Tower Records (born 1925).[135]
• 7 – Jerzy Milian, Polish vibraphonist (born 1935).[136]
• 12 – Olly Wilson, American composer, pianist, upright bassist, and musicologist (born 1937).
• 16 – Buell Neidlinger, American upright bassist and cellist (born 1936).[137]
• 22 – Morgana King, American singer and actress (born 1930).
• 29 Jimmy Woods, American alto saxophonist (born 1934).

April

• 1 – Audrey Morris, American singer and pianist (born 1928).[138]
• 3 – Lill-Babs or Barbro Svensson, Swedish singer and actress (born 1938).[139]
• 5 – Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet (born 1929).[140]
• 8 – Nathan Davis, American saxophonist, flautist, and multi-instrumentalist (born 1937).[141]
• 11 – Jim Caine, British pianist and radio presenter (born 1926).
• 12 – Gyula Babos, Hungarian guitarist (born 1949).
• 14 – Brian Rolland, American guitarist, composer, and songwriter (born 1954).
• 16 – Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian samba singer (born 1921).[142]
• 17 – Peter Guidi, Scottish saxophonist and flutist (born 1949).
• 23 – Bob Dorough, American pianist, composer, and vocalese singer (born 1923).[143]
• 26 – Charles Neville, American R&B saxophonist, The Neville Brothers (born 1938).[144]
• 27 – Gildo Mahones, American pianist (born 1929).
• 28 – Brooks Kerr, American pianist (born 1951).

Mikhail Alperin in 2017.

May

• 1 – John "Jabo" Starks, American drummer (born 1938).
• 11 – Mikhail Alperin, Ukrainian born pianist, Moscow Art Trio (born 1956).[145]
• 17 – Jon Sholle, American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist (born 1948).
• 18 – Jack Reilly, American pianist (born 1932).[146]
• 19 – Reggie Lucas, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1953).[147]

June

• 4 – Norman Edge, American upright bassist (born 1934).
• 5 – Brian Browne, Canadian pianist and composer (born 1937).
• 9 – Lorraine Gordon, American jazz music advocate, Village Vanguard jazz club (born 1922).[148]
• 11 – Wayne Dockery, American bassist (born 1941).
• 12 – Jon Hiseman, British drummer, recording engineer, and record producer, Colosseum, Colosseum II, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers (born 1944).
• 13 – D. J. Fontana, American drummer (born 1931).
• 15 – Matt Murphy, American guitarist, The Blues Brothers (born 1929).
• 17 – Rebecca Parris, American singer (born 1951).
• 21 – Bob Bain, American guitarist (born 1924).
• 26
  • Big Bill Bissonnette, American trombonist, drummer and producer (born 1937).
  • Fedor Frešo, Slovak bassist (born 1947).

July

• 2
  • Henry Butler, American pianist (born 1948).[149]
  • Bill Watrous, American trombonist (born 1939).[150]
• 8 – Tab Hunter, American actor, singer, and author (born 1931).
• 15 – Theryl DeClouet, American singer, Galactic (born 1951).[151]
• 23 – Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg, member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a music and art historian (born 1933).
• 25 – Patrick Williams, American composer, arranger, and conductor (born 1939).[152]
• 29 – Tomasz Stanko, Polish trumpeter and composer (born 1942).

August

• 10 – Ken Pickering, Canadian jazz promoter, Vancouver Jazz Festival co-founder (born 1952).[153]
• 16 – Aretha Franklin, American singer and songwriter (born 1942).
• 18 – Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (born 1919).
• 22 – Lazy Lester, American singer and guitarist (born 1933).

September

• 1 – Randy Weston, American pianist and composer (born 1926).
• 12 – Erich Kleinschuster, Austrian trombonist and bandleader (born 1930).
• 14 – Max Bennett, American bassist, L.A. Express, The Wrecking Crew (born 1928).
• 16
  • Maartin Allcock, British multi-instrumentalist, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull (born 1957).
  • Big Jay McNeely, American saxophonist (born 1927).
• 29 – Otis Rush, American singer and guitarist (born 1935).

October

• 1 – Jerry González, American trumpeter (born 1949).
• 3 – John Von Ohlen, American drummer, Blue Wisp Big Band (born 1941).
• 4 – Hamiet Bluiett, American saxophonist, World Saxophone Quartet (born 1940).
• 10 – Theresa Hightower, African-American singer (born 1954).
• 17 – Chuck Wilson, American saxophonist (born 1948).
• 25 – Sonny Fortune, American saxophonist (born 1939).
• 27 – Fred Hess, American tenor saxophonist (born 1944).

November

• 2 – Roy Hargrove, American trumpeter (born 1969).
• 15 – Ivan Smirnov, Russian guitarist (born 1955).
• 25 – Shep Shepherd, American drummer and trombonist (born 1917).
• 27 – Johnny Maddox, American pianist (born 1927).
• 28
  • Norio Maeda, Japanese composer and pianist (born 1934).
  • Roger Neumann, American saxophonist, flutist, and composer (born 1941).

December

• 1 – Calvin Newborn, American guitarist (born 1933).
• 2 – Perry Robinson, American clarinetist and composer (born 1938).
• 7 – The Mascara Snake or Victor Hayden, American avant-garde clarinetist, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (born 1948).
• 13 – Nancy Wilson, American singer (born 1937).
• 15 – Arthur Maia, Brazilian jazz and samba bassist and composer (born 1962).
• 30 – Miúcha, Brazilian singer and composer (born 1937).
• 31 – Urbie Green, American trombonist (born 1926).

See also

• List of 2018 albums
• List of jazz festivals
• List of years in jazz
• 2010s in jazz
• 2018 in music

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2. "WORLD-CLASS JAZZ IN TUCSON, JANUARY 11-21, 2018". TucsonJazzFestival.org. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
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External links

• History Of Jazz Timeline: 2018 at All About Jazz