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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2013.

Contents

January

  • 23 – The 2nd Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway (January 23 – 27).
  • 24 – The 8th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway (January 24 – 27).
  • 31 – The 15th Polarjazz Festival 2013 started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (January 31 – February 7).

    • March

  • 1 – The 9th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 1 – 3).
  • 22 – The 40th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 22 – 24).
  • 23
  • Tore Brunborg was awarded Vossajazzprisen 2013 as well as the Buddyprisen 2012 at Vossajazz.
  • Stian Carstensen performed the commissioned work Flipp for Vossajazz 2013.

    • April

  • 24 – The 19th SoddJazz 2013 started in Inderøy, Norway (April 24 – 28).
  • 30 – The International Jazz Day.

    • May

  • 17 – The 42nd Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 17 – 20).
  • 23 – The 41st Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 23 – June 1)

    • June

  • 17 – The 25th Jazz Fest Wien started in Vienna, Austria (June 17 – July 10).
  • 28 – The 33rd Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Canada (June 28 – July 7).

    • July

  • 3 – The 49th Kongsberg Jazzfestival started at Kongsberg, Norway (July 3 – 6).
  • 5 – The 47th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 5 – July 20).
  • 8 – The 66th Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France (July 8 – 12).
  • 12
  • The 38th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, The Netherlands (July 12 – 14).
  • The 35th Copenhagen Jazz Festival started in Copenhagen, Denmark (July 12 – 14).
  • The 48th Pori Jazz Festival started in Pori, Finland (July 12 – 21).
  • 15 – The 53rd Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway with Jason Moran as artist in residence (July 15 – 20).

    • August

  • 3 – The 57th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (August 3 – 5).
  • 7 – The 27th Sildajazz started in Haugesund, Norway (August 7 – 11).
  • 9 – The 29th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (August 9 – 11).
  • 12 – The 28th Oslo Jazzfestival started in Oslo, Norway (August 12 – 17).
  • 13 – Erlend Skomsvoll was recipient of the Ella-prisen 2013 at the Oslo Jazzfestival.

    • September

  • 6 – The 9th Punktfestivalen started in Kristiansand, Norway (September 6 – 8).
  • 19 – The 56th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 19 – 21).

    • October

  • 14 – The 30th Stockholm Jazz Festival started in Stockholm, Sweden (October 14 – 20).
  • 24 – Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson and Mauricio Zottarelli live at USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway.

    • November

  • 15 – The 22nd London Jazz Festival started in London, England (November 15 – 24).

    • Deaths

    January
  • 10 – Claude Nobs (76), Swiss founder and general manager of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
    • February
  • 4 – Donald Byrd (80), American trumpeter.
  • 28 – Armando Trovajoli (95), Italian film composer and pianist.
    • March
  • 6 – Alvin Lee (68), English singer and guitarist.
  • 30 – Phil Ramone (79), South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer.
    • April
  • 17 – Yngve Moe (55), Norwegian bass guitarist in the band Dance with a Stranger (fell in coma, after drowning in Tenerife, Spain).
    • May
  • 24 – Ed Shaughnessy (84), American drummer.
    • June
  • 4 – Ben Tucker (82), American upright-bassist (murder).
  • 8 – Mulgrew Miller (57), American pianist, composer, and educator.
    • July
  • 1 – Rolf Graf (53), Norwegian bass guitarist in the band Lava (cancer).
    • August
  • 5 – George Duke (67), American keyboardist and composer.
  • 15 – Jane Harvey (88), American singer.
  • 19 – Donna Hightower (86), American singer.
  • 20 – Marian McPartland (95), English-American pianist.
    • September
  • 16 – Jimmy Ponder (67), American guitarist.
    • October
  • 19 – Ronald Shannon Jackson (73), American drummer.
    • November
  • 25 – Chico Hamilton (92), American drummer.
    • December
  • 6 – Stan Tracey (December 30, 1926 – December 6), British pianist and composer.
  • 10 – Jim Hall (83), American guitarist.
  • 23 – Yusef Lateef (93), American saxophonist and composer.

    • References

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