2018 in jazz

2018 in jazz
Kamasi Washington at INNtöne Jazzfestival 2018.
Decade	2010s in jazz
Music	2018 in music
Standards	List of jazz standards
See also	2017 in jazz – 2019 in jazz

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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

Events

Shabaka Hutchings and Sons of Kemet at INNtöne Jazzfestival 2018

GoGo Penguin performing at a concert in Vienna, Austria

Chick Corea's Akoustic Band at the 2018 Kongsberg Jazzfestival

Adam Baldych 2018 at Cosmopolite, Oslo.

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 Vossevangen, 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]
• 7 - The Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz is renamed the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz after its longtime board chairman^[54]

December

• The 24th Umbria Jazz Winter started in Orvieto, Italy (December 20 - January 1).^[55]

Albums released

Month	Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
January	5	Contra Puncta	CMC Ensemble feat. Michel Godard	Losen	Produced by C.M.C. Ensemble	[56]
	19	Contra La Indecisión	Bobo Stenson Trio (Anders Jormin, Jon Fält)	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[57]
		Elvesang	Sigurd Hole	Elvesang		[58]
		Never Stop II	The Bad Plus			[59]
		Invisible Threads	John Surman with Nelson Ayres and Rob Waring	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[60]
		Lucus	Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide		Produced by Manfred Eicher	[61]
		Obsidian	Kit Downes			[62]
	26	Cinema Scenes	Klaus Paier - Asja Valcic	ACT		[63]
		Laila Biali	Laila Biali		Produced by Ben Wittman & Laila Biali	[64]
		Octopus	Kris Davis & Craig Taborn	Pyroclastic Records	Produced by David Breskin	[65]
		Rousilvo	Dine Doneff	ECM		[66]
	31	Sparkling	Tom Ibarra	Tom Ibarra		[67]
February	2	Cosmic Playground	Chris Gall Trio	Edition Collage		[68][69]
		Delights Of Decay	Batagraf	Jazzland	Produced by Jon Balke, Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim	[70]
		Live at Victoria	Solveig Slettahjell		Produced by Solveig Slettahjell	[71]
		Modern Lore	Julian Lage	Mack Avenue		[72]
	9	A Humdrum Star	GoGo Penguin	Blue Note		[69][73]
		Joy Ride	John Raymond & Real Feel	Sunnyside		[69][74]
		Live in Europe	Melody Gardot	Decca		[69][75]
		Thought You Knew	Snowpoet (Lauren Kinsella, Chris Hyson)	Edition Records		[69][76]
		Twio	Walter Smith III Trio	Whirlwind		[69][77]
	13	Heat	Knut Reiersrud Band	Jazzland		[78]
	16	Descansado - Songs for Film	Norma Winstone	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[69][79]
		For 2 Akis	Shinya Fukumori Trio		Produced by Manfred Eicher	[69][80]
		Romaria	Andy Sheppard Quartet		Produced by Manfred Eicher	[81]
		Run Boy, Run	Gurls (Hanna Paulsberg, Ellen Andrea Wang, Rohey Taalah)	Grappa	GRCD4571	[82]
		Travelers	Nicolas Masson, Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[83]
	23	A Novel Of Anomaly	Andreas Schaerer	ACT	Produced by Siggi Loch	[84]
		Lala Belu	Hailu Mergia	Awesome Tapes from Africa		[85]
		Opus	Al Di Meola	earMUSIC		[86]
		Pilgrim	Janne Mark with Arve Henriksen	ACT	Produced by Esben Eyermann and Janne Mark	[87]
	26	Animal Image	Verneri Pohjola, Mika Kallio	Edition		[88]
	28	Visions: Coast to Coast Connection	Bob Holz feat. Stanley Clarke	MVD Audio		[89]
March	2	After the Fall	Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette	ECM		[90]
		Ravensburg	Mathias Eick	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[91]
	9	Atonement	Bendik Hofseth	C+C Records	Jazz	[92]
		Joy	Karin Krog	Meantime Records	Jazz (vinyl)	[92]
		Traces of You	Kristin Asbjørnsen	Global Sonics / Øra		[92][93]
	23	In-House Science	Arild Andersen with Paolo Vinaccia, and Tommy Smith	ECM		[94]
		Oslo	Michael Wollny, feat. The Norwegian Wind Ensemble and Geir Lysne	ACT	Produced by Siggi Loch	[95]
		Notis	Kjersti Stubø Quintet including additional Jørn Øien, Håvard Stubø, Mats Eilertsen, and Håkon Mjåset Johansen	Bolage		[96]
		Powered By Life	Dalia Faitelson	Losen	Produced by Dalia Faitelson	[97]
		Returnings	Jakob Bro with Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Morgan, and Jon Christensen	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher	[98]
		Wartburg	Michael Wollny Trio Live	ACT	Produced by Siggi Loch	[99]
		The Questions	Kurt Elling	Okeh Records	with Marquis Hill, Branford Marsalis, and Jeff "Tain" Watts.	[100]
	30	Your Queen Is a Reptile	Sons of Kemet	Impulse! Records		[101]
April	6	Breaking English	Rafiq Bhatia	Anti- Records		[102]
		Polarity	Hoff Ensemble - Jan Gunnar Hoff, Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive	2L	Produced by Morten Lindberg	[103]
	20	Barxeta II	Per Mathisen & Jan Gunnar Hoff feat. Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez	Losen	Produced by Jan Gunnar Hoff and Per Mathisen	[104]
		Freedoms Trio II	Steinar Aadnekvam	Losen	Produced by Steinar Aadnekvam	[105]
		Kudu	Anteloper (Jaimie Branch, Jason Nazary)	International Anthem Recording Company	Produced by Jaimie Branch, Jason Nazary	[106]
		Swagism	Ghost-Note	Ropeadope Records		[107]
May	18	A Suite of Poems	Ketil Bjørnstad, Anneli Drecker, poems by Lars Saabye Christensen	ECM		[108]
	25	Still Dreaming	Joshua Redman, Ron Miles, Scott Colley, Brian Blade	Nonesuch	Produced by Joshua Redman	[109]
June	15	Open Land - Meeting John Abercrombie	John Abercrombie	ECM	DVD	[110]
	22	Heaven and Earth	Kamasi Washington	Young Turk Recordings		[111]
July	18	e.s.t. songbook - Volume 2 - Buch	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	ACT		[112]
August	31	Helsinki Songs	Trygve Seim	ECM		[113]
		Living Being II - Night Walker	Vincent Peirani	ACT	Produced by Vincent Peirani	[114]
		The Other Side	Tord Gustavsen Trio	ECM		[115]
September	7	Temporary Kings	Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson	ECM		[116]
	14	Marcin Wasilewski Trio Live	Marcin Wasilewski Trio			[117]
	28	The Dream Thief	Shai Maestro, Jorge Roeder, and Ofri Nehemya		Produced by Manfred Eicher	[118]
		The Window	Cécile McLorin Salvant	Mack Avenue Records		[119]
		Summerwind	Lars Danielsson	ACT	Produced by Siggi Loch	[120]
October	5	Bay Of Rainbows	Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, and Joey Baron	ECM		[121]
		Where The River Goes	Wolfgang Muthspiel, Ambrose Akinmusire, Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, and Eric Harland		Produced by Manfred Eicher	[122]
	12	Crime Zone	Connie Han	Mack Avenue Records		[123][124]
	19	La Fenice	Keith Jarrett	ECM		[125]
		12 Little Spells	Esperanza Spalding	Concord Records	Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards[126]	[127]
	26	Universal Beings	Makaya McCraven	International Anthem Recordings		[128]
		Christmas With My Friends VI	Nils Landgren	ACT	Produced by Nils Landgren with Johan Norberg	[129]
		My Soul Kitchen	Ida Sand		Produced by Nils Landgren and Siggi Loch	[130]
November	2	Lebroba	Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, and Bill Frisell	ECM		[131]
		Lucent Waters	Florian Weber, Ralph Alessi, Linda May Han Oh, and Nasheet Waits		Produced by Manfred Eicher	[132]
	9	The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles	Art Ensemble of Chicago		21xCD	[133]

All critically reviewed albums ranked

AnyDecentMusic

Number	Artist	Album	Average score	Number of reviews	Reference
1	Kamasi Washington	Heaven and Earth	8.3	29 reviews	[134]
2	Jon Hassel	Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)	7.8	10 reviews	[135]
3	Kadhja Bonet	Childqueen	7.8	10 reviews	[136]
4	Kamaal Williams	The Return	7.5	6 reviews	[137]
5	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	IC-01 Hanoi	6.2	10 reviews	[138]

Metacritic

Number	Artist	Album	Average score	Number of reviews	Reference
1	John Coltrane	Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album	90	11 reviews	[139]
2	Miles Davis	The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 [Box Set]	87	5 reviews	[140]
3	Entourage	Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions and Outtakes 1972-1977 [Box Set]	87	4 reviews	[141]
4	Kamasi Washington	Heaven And Earth	86	22 reviews	[142]
5	Makaya McCraven	Universal Beings	86	5 reviews	[143]
6	Sons of Kemet	Your Queen Is a Reptile	81	12 reviews	[144]

Deaths

January

• 4 – Ray Thomas, British flautist and singer, The Moody Blues (born 1941).^[145]
• 14
  • Bill Hughes, American trombonist and bandleader (born 1930).^[146]
  • Marlene VerPlanck, American singer (born 1933).^[147]
• 20 – Terry Evans, American singer and guitarist (born 1937).^[148]
• 22 – Billy Hancock, American singer, guitarist, bassist, and multiinstrumentalist (born 1946).
• 23 – Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, singer, and composer (born 1939).^[149]
• 25 – Tommy Banks, Canadian pianist (born 1936).^[150]
• 28
  • Eddie Shaw, American saxophonist (born 1937).^[151]
  • Coco Schumann, German guitarist (born 1924).^[152]
• 29 – Asmund Bjørken, Norwegian accordionist and saxophonist (born 1933).^[153]

February

• 3 – Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, American drummer (born 1952).^[154]
• 5 – Ove Stokstad, Norwegian printmaker, clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1939).^[155]
• 7 – John Perry Barlow, American lyricist, poet, and essayist (born 1925).^[156]
• 8 – Algia Mae Hinton, American guitarist and singer (born 1929).
• 9 – Wesla Whitfield, American singer (born 1947).^[157]
• 11 – Vic Damone, American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1928).^[158]
• 18 – Didier Lockwood, French violinist, Magma (born 1956).
• 22 – Errol Buddle, Australian bassoonist and saxophonist (born 1928).^[159]

March

• 4 – Russell Solomon, American entrepreneur, art collector, and founder of the Tower Records (born 1925).^[160]
• 7 – Jerzy Milian, Polish vibraphonist (born 1935).^[161]
• 12 – Olly Wilson, American composer, pianist, upright bassist, and musicologist (born 1937).
• 16 – Buell Neidlinger, American upright bassist and cellist (born 1936).^[162]
• 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).^[163]
• 3 – Lill-Babs or Barbro Svensson, Swedish singer and actress (born 1938).^[164]
• 5 – Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet (born 1929).^[165]
• 8 – Nathan Davis, American saxophonist, flautist, and multi-instrumentalist (born 1937).^[166]
• 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).^[167]
• 17 – Peter Guidi, Scottish saxophonist and flutist (born 1949).
• 23 – Bob Dorough, American pianist, composer, and vocalese singer (born 1923).^[168]
• 26 – Charles Neville, American R&B saxophonist, The Neville Brothers (born 1938).^[169]
• 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).
• 17 – Jon Sholle, American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist (born 1948).
• 18 – Jack Reilly, American pianist (born 1932).^[170]
• 19 – Reggie Lucas, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1953).^[171]

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).^[172]
• 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).^[173]
  • Bill Watrous, American trombonist (born 1939).^[174]
• 8 – Tab Hunter, American actor, singer, and author (born 1931).
• 15 – Theryl DeClouet, American singer, Galactic (born 1951).^[175]
• 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).^[176]
• 29 – Tomasz Stanko, Polish trumpeter and composer (born 1942).

August

• 10 – Ken Pickering, Canadian jazz promoter, Vancouver Jazz Festival co-founder (born 1952).^[177]
• 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

• Jazz portal

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

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• History Of Jazz Timeline: 2018 at All About Jazz