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Decade
  
1990s in jazz

Music
  
1995 in music

1995 in jazz

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1994 in jazz – 1996 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1995.

Contents

April

  • 7 – The 22nd Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 7 – 9).

    • May

  • 23 – The 23rd Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 23 – June 4).

    • June

  • 2 – The 24th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 2 – 5).
  • 29 – The 16th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Canada (June 29 - July 9).

    • July

  • 1 – The 5th Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria (July 1 – 12).
  • 7 – The 29th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Switzerland (July 7 – 22).
  • 14 – The 20th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands (July 14 – 16).
  • 15 – The 30th Pori Jazz Festival started in Finland (July 15 – 23).
  • 17 – The 36th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (July 17 – 22).
  • The 48th Nice Jazz Festival started in France (July 7 – 16).
  • 21 – The 30th San Sebastian Jazz Festival started in San Sebastian, Spain (July 21 – 25).

    • August

  • 11 – The 12th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (August 11 – 13).

    • September

  • 15 – The 38th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 15 – 17).

    • Unknown date

  • The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz opens their first performance classes of jazz."

    • Album releases

  • Butch Morris: Testament
  • Dave Douglas: In Our Lifetime
  • Matthew Shipp: The Flow of X
  • Charlie Hunter: Bing, Bing, Bing!
  • Marvin Peterson: African Portraits
  • Guy Klucevsek: Citrus My Love
  • Marty Ehrlich: Just Before The Dawn
  • Matthew Shipp: Symbol Systems
  • Gerry Hemingway: Marmalade King
  • Steve Turre: Rhythm Within
  • Medeski Martin and Wood: Friday Afternoon in the Universe
  • Reggie Workman: Cerebral Caverns
  • Muhal Richard Abrams: One Line, Two Views
  • Dave Douglas: Five
  • Bill Frisell: Go West
  • Pat Metheny Group: We Live Here
  • Henry Threadgill: Makin' a Move
  • Dave Holland: Dream of the Elders
  • Paul Plimley: Everything in Stage
  • John Scofield: Groove Elation
  • Chick Corea Quartet: Time Warp
  • Matthew Shipp: Before the World
  • Don Byron: Music for Six Musicians
  • Uri Caine: Toys
  • Michael Franks: Abandoned Garden
  • Roy Campbell:Communion
  • Marilyn Crispell: Destiny
  • David S. Ware: Cryptology

    • Deaths

  • Jess Stacy (August 11, 1904 – January 1)
  • Art Taylor (April 6, 1929 – February 6)
  • Julius Hemphill (January 24, 1938 – April 2)
  • Jimmy Raney (August 20, 1927 – May 10)
  • Earle Warren (July 1, 1914 – June 4)
  • Percy Humphrey (January 13, 1905 – July 22)
  • John Gilmore (September 28 or October 29, 1931 – August 19 or August 20)
  • Don Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19)

    • References

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