1948 in jazz

1948 in jazz

Events

February

• 22 – The very first Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France.
• *The Nice Jazz Festival is inaugurated. Held annually in Nice, on the French Riviera, it is "the first jazz festival of international significance."

  Album releases

• Coleman Hawkins: Picasso
• Stan Kenton: A Presentation of Progressive Jazz

  Standards

Deaths

• 3 – Kaiser Marshall, American jazz drummer.

• 6 – Sidney Arodin, American jazz clarinetist and songwriter.
• 7 – Red McKenzie, one of the only comb players in jazz history.

• 3 – Mutt Carey, New Orleans jazz trumpeter.

• 4 – Jan Savitt, American bandleader, musical arranger, and violinist.

• 23 – Stan Hasselgård, Swedish jazz clarinetist.

• 3 – Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist, singer, dancer and composer.
• 6 – Dave Tough, American jazz drummer.
• 31 – Wilton Crawley, American composer and clarinetist.

  Births

• 2 – John Madrid, American trumpet player.
• 8 – Thurman Barker, American drummer.
• 12 – John Etheridge, English guitarist.
• 15 – Juma Santos, American percussionist and master drummer.
• 18 – Ryoko Moriyama, Japanese singer.
• 26 – Aki Takase, Japanese pianist and composer.
• 28 – Bob Moses, American drummer.
• 29 – Espen Rud, Norwegian drummer.
• 31 – Joyce Moreno, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and arranger.

• 3 – Dennis Rowland, American vocalist.
• 12 – Juini Booth, American upright bassist.
• 22 – Joe LaBarbera, American jazz drummer and composer.
• 24 – Maggie Nicols, Scottish vocalist, dancer, and performer, Feminist Improvising Group.
• 26 – Mike Richmond, American bassist.
• 29 – Richie Cole, American saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

• 1 – Konrad Kaspersen, Norwegian upright bassist.
• 2
• * Larry Carlton, American guitarist.
• * Phil Bowler, American upright bassist.
• 6 – Marc Jordan, American-born Canadian singer-songwriter.
• 7 – Danilo Caymmi, Brazilian musician, singer, composer and arranger.
• 9 – Fumio Karashima, Japanese pianist.
• 13 – Jon Sholle, American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist.
• 17 – Jessica Williams, American pianist and composer.
• 19
• * David Schnitter, American saxophonist.
• * Henning Gravrok, Norwegian saxophonist.
• 20 – Marva Wright, American blues singer.
• 23
• * John McNeil, American jazz trumpet player.
• * Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Japanese pianist and composer.
• 24 – Frode Gjerstad, Norwegian saxophonist.

• 20 – Joe Bonner, American pianist.
• 22 – Jan Kaspersen, Danish pianist, composer, and bandleader.
• 28 – Dorothée Berryman, Canadian singer.

• 1 – Carl Morten Iversen, Norwegian upright bassist.
• 8 – Jackie Orszaczky, Hungarian-Australian bass guitarist.
• 9 – Tania Maria, Brazilian pianist, singer, composer, and bandleader.
• 16 – Adrian Legg, English guitarist, luthier, instructor, and composer.
• 19 – Tom Scott, American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor, and bandleader.
• 20 – Roger Frampton, Australian pianist, saxophonist, and composer.
• 27 – Marc Copland, American pianist and composer.
• 31 – Paulinho da Costa, Brazilian percussionist.

• 1 – Ryo Fukui, Japanese pianist.
• 4 – Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban saxophonist and clarinetist.
• 7 – Clifford Barbaro, American drummer.
• 16 – Fredy Studer, Swiss percussionist.
• 21 – Dan Fogel, American organist.
• 27 – Bill Summers, Afro-Cuban percussionist.

• 7 – Jorge Dalto, Argentinian pianist.
• 10 – Bruce Fowler, American trombonist, Mothers of Invention.
• 14 – Doug Carn, American organist and pianist.
• 16 – Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, musician, activist, and politician.
• 30 – Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and pianist.
• 31 – Chuck Wilson, American saxophonist.

• 2 – Chris Bennett, American singer, pianist, songwriter.
• 3 – Ray Reach, American pianist, vocalist, and educator.
• 11 – Bill Heid, American pianist and organist.
• 13 – Anthony Moore, British experimental music composer, performer and producer, Henry Cow.
• 16 – Steve Harris, English drummer and composer.

• 4 – Michael Cochrane, American pianist.
• 5 – Karen Borca, American bassoonist.
• 6 – Roger Dean, British-Australian pianist, academic, biochemist, and cognitive scientist.
• 10 – Lorraine Feather, American singer and songwriter.
• 12 – Steve Turre, American trombonist.
• 21 – Henry Butler, American pianist.
• 23 – Don Grolnick, American pianist and composer.
• 25 – Bill Pierce, American saxophonist.
• 28 – Danny Weis, American guitarist.
• 29 – Theo Jörgensmann, German Basset clarinetist and composer.

• 2 – Avery Brooks, American actor, jazz musician, opera singer, and college professor.
• 4 – Gary Brunotte, American pianist and organist.
• 9 – Dave Samuels, American vibraphonist and marimba player, Spyro Gyra.
• 13 – Geoff Simkins, British alto saxophonist.
• 16 – Carli Muñoz, Puerto Rican pianist.
• 23 – Rose Nabinger, German singer.

• 1 – Raphe Malik, American trumpeter.
• 9 – Kazimierz Jonkisz, Polish drummer.
• 11 – Marvin Peterson or Hannibal Lokumbe, American trumpeter and composer.
• 16 – Chi Coltrane, American songwriter, pianist and singer.
• 20 – Barbara Hendricks, American-born operatic soprano and concert singer.
• 21 – Alphonse Mouzon, American fusion drummer and percussionist, Return to Forever.
• 23
• * Emil Viklický, Czech pianist and composer.
• * Thara Memory, American trumpeter.
• 30 – Stan Sulzmann, English saxophonist.

• 6 – Harvie Swartz, American upright bassist.
• 7 – Mads Vinding, Danish upright bassist.
• 15
• * Carlos Zingaro, American pianist.
• * Toshinori Kondo, Japanese avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter.
• 23 – Jim Ferguson, American jazz guitarist, composer, author, educator, and music journalist.

• Dave Eshelman, American trombonist and composer.
• Guy Van Duser, American guitarist.
• Jaroslav Jakubovič, Czech-born Israeli jazz saxophonist, composer and record producer.
• The Mascara Snake or Victor Hayden, American avant-garde clarinetist, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.