2013 in jazz

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

Events

January

23 – The 2nd Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway.24 – The 8th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway.31 – The 15th Polarjazz Festival 2013 started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard .

March

1 – The 9th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia.22 – The 40th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway.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.26 – The 2nd Torino Jazz Festival started in Turin.30 – The International Jazz Day.

May

17 – The 42nd Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany.23 – The 41st Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway

7 – The 27th Sildajazz started in Haugesund, Norway.
9 – The 29th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales.
12 – The 28th Oslo Jazzfestival started in Oslo, Norway.13 – Erlend Skomsvoll was recipient of the Ella-prisen 2013 at the Oslo Jazzfestival.

September

6 – The 9th Punktfestivalen started in Kristiansand, Norway.19 – The 56th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California.

October

14 – The 30th Stockholm Jazz Festival started in Stockholm, Sweden.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.

December

Sons of Kemet wins Best Jazz Act in the 2013 MOBO Awards.

Albums

Month	Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
April	4	There's A Hole In The Mountain	Atomic	Losen Records
April	12	La Notte	Ketil Bjørnstad	ECM Records	Produced by Manfred Eicher
April	12	Still Life with Eggplant	Motorpsycho and Reine Fiske	Rune Grammofon	Produced by Bent Sæther
April	12	Map Of The World – Music For Guitar	Gjermund Titlestad	Ponca Jazz Records
April	26	Guided Tour	The New Gary Burton Quartet	Mack Avenue	Produced by Gary Burton
April	30	Brooklyn Babylon	Darcy James Argue's Secret Society		features Ingrid Jensen
May	24	Somewhere	Keith Jarrett Standards Trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette	ECM Records
May	31	The Sleep Of Reason	Arne Jansen	ACT Music	Produced by Arne Jansen, Axel Reinemer
June	3	Seven Hills	Alexi Tuomarila Trio	Edition	Produced by Alexi Tuomarila
June	14	Melodic Warrior	Terje Rypdal with The Hilliard Ensemble	ECM	Produced by Manfred Eicher
June	25	OWL Trio	Lage Lund, Orlando le Fleming, Will Vinson	Losen
July	2	Überjam Deux	John Scofield	EmArcy Records
August	5	Sun Pictures	Linda May Han Oh	Greenleaf Music
August	6	The Vigil	Chick Corea	Concord Records
August	6	Out Here	Christian McBride	Mack Avenue Records
August	27	The Orchestrion Project	Pat Metheny	Nonesuch Records
September	2	Prism	Dave Holland	Dare2	with Eric Harland, Kevin Eubanks, and Craig Taborn
September	9	Burn	Sons of Kemet	Naim Records
October	1	Places of Worship	Arve Henriksen	Rune Grammofon
October	8	We Are All Small Pixels	Pixel	Cuneiform Records
October	18	NyeSongar.no	Karl Seglem	NorCD
October	25	New Circle	Geir Lysne	ACT Music
November	13	Beyond The Double Bass	Renaud Garcia-Fons	Enja Records
November	29	Dagane	Daniel Herskedal	NorCD

Deaths

; January10 – Claude Nobs, Swiss founder and general manager of the Montreux Jazz Festival.28 – Brian Brown, Australian musician and educator.29 – Butch Morris, American cornetist, composer, and conductor.
; February1 – Rudolf Dašek, Czech guitarist.4

* Donald Byrd, American trumpeter.
* Pat Halcox, English trumpeter.23 – Sonny Russo, American trombonist.25 – Stewart "Dirk" Fischer, American composer, trumpeter, and valve trombonist.28 – Armando Trovajoli, Italian film composer and pianist.

; March5 – Melvin Rhyne, American organist.6 – Alvin Lee, English singer and guitarist.7 – Kenny Ball, English trumpeter, bandleader, and vocalist.15 – Terry Lightfoot, British clarinettist and bandleader.22 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer, and arranger.29 – Enzo Jannacci, Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, actor, and stand-up comedian.30 – Phil Ramone, South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer.
; April2 – Linda Vogt, Australian flautist.5 – Terry Devon, British singer.6 – Don Shirley, American-Jamaican pianist and composer.11 – Don Blackman, American jazz-funk pianist, singer, and songwriter.17 – Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass guitarist, Dance with a Stranger.18 – Tom Parker, British pianist.
;May24 – Ed Shaughnessy, American drummer.
;June4 – Ben Tucker, American upright-bassist .8 – Mulgrew Miller, American pianist, composer, and educator.11 – Johnny Smith, American cool jazz and mainstream jazz guitarist.13 – Sam Most, American jazz flautist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist.26 – Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish composer and trumpeter.29 – Paul Smith, American jazz pianist.
;July1 – Rolf Graf, Norwegian bass guitarist in the band Lava .2 – Bengt Hallberg, Swedish pianist, composer, and arranger.18 – Carline Ray, American singer, pianist, and guitarist, International Sweethearts of Rhythm.25 – Steve Berrios, American drummer and percussionist.28 – Rita Reys, Duch singer.
; August5 – George Duke, American keyboardist and composer.15 – Jane Harvey, American singer.18 – Rolv Wesenlund, Norwegian comedian, singer, clarinetist, and saxophonist.19

* Cedar Walton, American pianist.
* Donna Hightower, American singer.20
* Marian McPartland, English-American pianist.
* Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African vocalist and composer.

; September7 - Lee Tanner, American Jazz photographer, 82 16 – Jimmy Ponder, American guitarist.17 – Bernie McGann, Australian alto saxophonist.18 – Lindsay Cooper, English bassoon and oboe player, composer, and political activist.23

* Gia Maione, American singer.
* Paul Kuhn, German pianist, singer, and band leader.

; October5 – Butch Warren, American upright bassist.13 – Tommy Whittle, British saxophonist.15

* Donald Bailey, American drummer.
* Gloria Lynne, American singer.19 – Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer.30 – Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flautist.

; November9 – Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, American tenor saxophonist.25 – Chico Hamilton, American drummer.
;December6 – Stan Tracey, British pianist and composer.10 – Jim Hall, American guitarist.19 – Herb Geller, American saxophonist, composer, and arranger. 21 – Trigger Alpert, American bassist. 23 – Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist and composer.25 – Kaj Backlund, Finnish trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.28 – Dwayne Burno, American upright bassist.29 – Red Balaban, American tubist and sousaphonist.31 – Al Porcino, American trumpeter.