The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1988 in Norwegian music.

Events

March

* 25 – The 15th

Vossajazz Vossajazz or Vossa Jazz (established 19 December 1973) is an international jazz festival in Voss, Norway, which takes place annually during the week before Easter, and which also includes concerts throughout the year. The festival has been led by ...

started in

Voss, Norway Voss () is a municipality and a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages include Bolstadøyri, Borstrondi, Evanger, Kvitheim, Mjølfjell, Opphe ...

(March 25 – 27).

May

* 25 – The 16th

Nattjazz Bergen International Jazz Festival or Nattjazz, is one of the largest jazz festivals of Norway. The festival has a musical profile with an emphasis on ethnic and contemporary jazz. It is held annually in late May, coinciding with Festspillene ...

started in

Bergen, Norway Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, secon ...

(May 25 – June 8).

June

* 25 – The 19th

Kalvøyafestivalen Kalvøyafestivalen was a Norwegian music festival arranged at Kalvøya in Bærum nearby Oslo, Norway. The festival was initiated by people connected to the folk club Hades at the art center on Høvikodden. The festival was started by Sten Rander ...

started at Kalvøya near by Oslo (June 25 – 26). * 26 – Leonard Cohen performed a concert at

Kalvøya, Bærum Kalvøya ( en, Calf Island) is situated in the inner Oslofjord. The island is right outside of Sandvika in Bærum. The island has been connected to the mainland by a suspension bridge to Kadettangen since 1963. Kalvøya is one of the most popula ...

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Albums released

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Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek () (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Østfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław ...

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Legend Of The Seven Dreams ''Legend of the Seven Dreams'' is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, that features Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber and Naná Vasconcelos. It was released on the ECM label in 1988.

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Thorgeir Stubø Thorgeir Stubø (12 November 1943 – 22 October 1986) was a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar) and composer. He was the father of Jazz guitarist Håvard, jazz singer Kjersti and theater director Eirik Stubø, and grandfather of electronica musi ...

* ''The End Of A Tune'' (Cadence Jazz Records), with

Art Farmer Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, double ...

and Doug Raney

Deaths

; January * 9 –

Peter L. Rypdal Peter Larsson Rypdal (10 February 1909 – 9 January 1988) was a Norwegian fiddler and famous traditional folk music composer. Rypdal was born and died at Tresfjord in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Of the many pieces he composed, two of his wedd ...

, fiddler and famous traditional folk music composer (born

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Januar ...

). ; July * 1 –

Robert Riefling Robert Dankwart Leo Riefling (17 September 1911 – 1 July 1988) was a Norwegian classical pianist and pedagogist. He was regarded among Scandinavia's leading pianists, and toured all over the western world. He was a Professor in Copenhagen fro ...

, classical pianist and music teacher (born

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

Births

; February * 5 – Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson, jazz upright bassist. * 15 –

Ragnhild Hemsing Ragnhild Hemsing (born 15 February 1988 in Valdres, Norway) is a Norwegian classical violinist and older sister of the classical violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing. Biography Hemsing began to play the violin when she was five and a half years old an ...

, classical and traditional folk violinist. * 26 –

Christian Meaas Svendsen Christian Meaas Svendsen (born 26 February 1988) is a Norwegian jazz bassist. He has worked with Nakama, Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit, Mopti, Momentum, Aksiom, Ayumi Tanaka Trio and Duplex. He runs Nakama Records. Career Svendsen started hi ...

, jazz upright bassist and composer. ; April * 12 –

Tone Damli Aaberge Tone Damli Aaberge (born 12 April 1988) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and actress. She became famous for being a contestant in the Norwegian version of the ''Idol'' series. Damli was the runner-up in the Norwegian version of ''Idol'' in 20 ...

, singer. ; May * 7 –

David Aleksander Sjølie David Aleksander Sjølie (born 7 May 1988) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist, known from bands like Mopti, married 31 July 2014, to the jazz singer Anja Eline Skybakmoen. Career Sjølie was born in Oslo, where he lives and works as a musician, pr ...

, jazz guitarist,

Mopti Mopti ( Bambara: ߡߏߕߌ tr. Moti) is a town and an urban commune in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali. The town is the capital of the Mopti Cercle and the Mopti Region. Situated 630 km northeast of Bamako, the town lies at the conflue ...

. * 9 – Fredrik Rasten, guitarist, improviser, and composer. ; July * 31 –

Andreas Wildhagen Andreas Wildhagen (born 31 July 1988 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz drummer. Biography Wildhagen was raised in Oslo and attended the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2012, and earned his Master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is ...

, jazz drummer. ; August * 12 – Chriss Rune Olsen Angvik, rhythm & blues guitarist and vocalist. * 17 -

Natalie Sandtorv Natalie Sandtorv (born 17 August 1988) is a Norwegian jazz musician (vocals, waterphone, harmonium, electronics) married July 29, 2016, to drummer Ole Mofjell, residing in Copenhagen, Denmark. Biography Sandtorv was born in Ålesund, Norway. ...

, jazz singer, percussionist, and electronica artist. ; Unknown date *

Jan Martin Gismervik Jan Martin Gismervik (born 1988 in Avaldsnes, Karmøy, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (drums), known from bands like Monkey Plot, Torg, Oker, O, PGA. Career Gismervik was raised in Avaldsnes, where he played in local groups. He is educ ...

, jazz drummer.

References

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