This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1988.

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 (March 25 – 27).

April

* 6 – Jazz guitarist

Larry Carlton Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts such as Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. He has participated in thousands of recording sessions, recorde ...

is shot in a random gun shooting outside his Los Angeles studios.

May

* 20 – The 17th Moers Festival started in

Moers, Germany Moers (; older form: ''Mörs''; archaic Dutch: ''Murse'', ''Murs'' or ''Meurs'') is a German city on the western bank of the Rhine, close to Duisburg. Moers belongs to the district of Wesel. History Known earliest from 1186, the county of Moe ...

(May 20 – 23). * 25 – The 16th Nattjazz 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

* 30 – The 22nd Montreux Jazz Festival started in

Montreux, Switzerland Montreux (, , ; frp, Montrolx) is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps. It belongs to the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, and has a population of approxima ...

(June 30 – July 16).

July

* 1 – The 9th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (July 1 – 10). * 8 – The 13th

North Sea Jazz Festival The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival w ...

started in

The Hague, Netherlands The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

(July 8 – 10).

August

* 19 – The 5th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 19 – 21).

September

* 16 – The 31st

Monterey Jazz Festival The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It debuted on October 3, 1958, championed by Dave Brubeck and co-founded by jazz and popular music critic Ralph J. Gleason and jaz ...

started in

Monterey, California Monterey (; es, Monterrey; Ohlone: ) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under bo ...

(September 16 – 18).

Album releases

* Bill Frisell: '' Before We Were Born'' * Henry Threadgill: '' Rag, Bush and All'' * Turtle Island String Quartet: ''Turtle Island String Quartet'' * Lyle Mays: ''Street Dreams'' * Dave Holland: ''Triplicate'' * Jackie McLean: ''Dynasty'' *John Carter: ''Fields'' * Leni Stern: ''Secrets'' * Microscopic Septet: ''Beauty Based on Science'' *Music Revelation Ensemble: ''Music Revelation Ensemble'' * Willem Breuker: ''Psalm 122'' *

Steve Turre Stephen Johnson Turre (born September 12, 1948, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer of using Conch (instrument), seashells as instruments, a composer, arranger, and educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. For ...

: ''Fire and Ice'' * Trilok Gurtu: ''Usfret'' * Bobby Previte: ''Claude's Late Morning'' *Bill Frisell: '' Lookout for Hope'' * Misha Mengelberg: ''Impromptus'' *

Marcus Roberts Marthaniel "Marcus" Roberts (born August 7, 1963) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher. Early life Roberts was born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. His mother was a gospel singer who had gone blind a ...

: ''Truth is Spoken Here'' * David Ware: ''

Passage to Music ''Passage to Music'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware recorded in 1988 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. Besides tenor sax Ware plays saxello, a variant of the soprano sax played by English jazz musician Elton Dea ...

'' * David Liebman: ''Trio + One'' *

Freddie Hubbard Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played bebop, hard bop, and post-bop styles from the early 1960s onwards. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives fo ...

: ''Stardust'' * Gary Thomas: ''Code Violations'' * Hilton Ruiz: ''El Camino'' * Phil Woods: ''Evolution'' * Ralph Moore: ''Rejuvenate'' * Matthew Shipp & Rob Brown: ''

Sonic Explorations ''Sonic Explorations'' is the debut album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp and alto saxophonist Rob Brown, originally issued on LP in 1988 on Cadence Jazz. Both musicians played together for about 5 years before. "Sonic Explorations" is a ...

Deaths

; January * 8 – Ray Bauduc, American drummer (born

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

). ; February * 24 –

Miff Görling Uno "Miff" Görling (March 21, 1909, Stockholm – February 24, 1988, Stockholm) was a Swedish jazz bandleader, trombonist, arranger, and composer. His brother was Zilas Görling. Görling, who took his nickname from trombonist Miff Mole, got his ...

, Swedish bandleader, trombonist, arranger, and 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 ...

). ;March * 1 – Tommy Potter, American upright-bassist (born

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

). * 8 – Ken Colyer, English trumpeter and cornetist (born

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

). * 20 – Gil Evans, Canadian pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (born

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

). ; April * 3 –

Kai Ewans Kai Peter Anthon Ewans (né Nielsen; April 10, 1906 – April 4, 1988) was a Danish-American jazz reedist. Ewans was born in Hørsholm, Denmark. He played initially as a banjoist, but switched to saxophone in 1923 when he formed the Blues Jazz Band ...

, Danish reedist (born

). * 15 – Eliza Doolittle, British singer-songwriter. * 19 – Ed Burke, American violinist and trombonist (born

). ;May * 13 –

Chet Baker Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool". Baker earned much attention and ...

, American trumpeter and singer (born

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

). * 28 – Sy Oliver, American trumpeter, singer, composer, arranger and bandleader (born

1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...

). ;July * 2 – Eddie Vinson, American alto saxophonist and blues shouter (born

1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...

). ; August * 15 –

Bill Beason William Beason (March 6, 1908 – August 15, 1988) was an American swing jazz drummer born in Louisville, Kentucky. At the height of his career, he recorded with Django Reinhardt. Life In 1939, Beason took over the role of drummer in Ella F ...

, American drummer (born

1908 Events January * January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica. * January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...

). * 27 – Irene Higginbotham, African American songwriter and concert pianist (born

). ; September * 5 – Lawrence Brown, American trombonist (born

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...

). * 27 – J. C. Heard, American drummer (born

). ; October * 8 – Edward Inge, American arranger and reedist (born

). ; November * 30 ** Charlie Rouse, American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist (born

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

). ** Pannonica de Koenigswarter, British-born jazz patron and writer (born

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...

). ; December * 8 ** Gene Quill, American alto saxophonist (born

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...

). ** Thore Swanerud, Swedish pianist, vibraphonist, arranger, conductor, and composer (born

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...

). ; Unknown date *

Barney Josephson Barney Josephson (1902–1988) was the founder of Café Society in Greenwich Village, New York's first integrated nightclub. Opening artists in 1938 included Billie Holiday, who first performed the song "Strange Fruit" there. Background Bar ...

, founder of Café Society in Greenwich Village (born

1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's f ...

Births

; January * 28 –

Casimir Liberski Casimir Liberski (born 1988) is a pianist and composer. He attended Berklee College of Music from 2006. Around 2010, he appeared on Charnett Moffett's album ''Treasure''. Liberski composed the music for the 2014 film ''Tokyo Fiancée''. Selec ...

, Belgian pianist and keyboarder. ; February * 5 – Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson, Norwegian upright bassist. * 26 – Christian Meaas Svendsen, Norwegian upright bassist. ; April * 1 –

Sam Mtukudzi Sam Mtukudzi (April 1, 1988 – March 15, 2010) was a Zimbabwean musician. He was the son of the late singer Oliver Mtukudzi. Early life and career After graduating high school, Sam joined his father on tours playing the saxophone and a guitar. ...

, Zimbabwean saxophonist and guitarist (died

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

). * 22 –

Nitcho Reinhardt Nitcho Reinhardt (born 22 April 1988 in Verdun, France Verdun (, , , ; official name before 1970 ''Verdun-sur-Meuse'') is a large city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. ...

, French guitarist. ; May * 29 – Kelly Sweet, American singer and songwriter. ; May * 2 – Guilherme Rodrigues, Portuguese composer, improviser, and sound artist. * 7 – David Aleksander Sjølie, Norwegian guitarist. * 17 – Brittany Anjou, American pianist, multi-instrumentalist, 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 ...

, Norwegian drummer. ; August * 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. ...

, Norwegian singer, percussionist, and electronica artist. * 28 –

Kjetil Jerve Kjetil Jerve (born 28 August 1988) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer. He was born in Ålesund. Discography Solo albums * 2016: ''New York Improvisations'' (Dugnad Rec), with Jimmy Halperin, Drew Gress * 2017: ''Circumstances'' (AM ...

, Norwegian pianist and composer. ; September * 1 – Martina Bárta, Czech singer and French hornist. ; October * 19 – Pasquale Grasso, Italian guitarist. ; November * 25 – Victoria Hart, California-born English singer. * 27 – Sandra Nankoma, Ugandan singer, songwriter and actress. ; December * 3 –

Melissa Aldana Melissa Aldana (born 3 December 1988) is a Chilean tenor saxophone player, who performs both as a soloist and with her band Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio. Life and career Early life and training Aldana was born in Santiago, Chile. She began playin ...

, Chilean tenor saxophonist. * 23 –

Thomai Apergi Thomai Apergi ( el, Θωμαή Απεργη; born 23 December 1988) is a Greek singer. She made her professional debut under the label of Panik Records in 2012 with her first single "What's Your Name" (Mia Vradia). She is known for participating ...

, Greek singer and guitarist. ; 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 ...

, Norwegian drummer,

Monkey Plot Monkey Plot (initiated in 2011) is a Norwegian jazz trio playing acoustic improvised music with their own touch. Biography After four years of study at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the trio have distinguished themselves as strong newcomers ...

. *

Simon Gore Simon Gore (born 1988) is a Welsh guitarist, keyboarder, composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many compose ...

, Welch guitarist, keyboarder, composer, and audio/visual artist.

References

External links

History Of Jazz Timeline: 1988
at All About Jazz {{Jazz Jazz Jazz by year