# 1992 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1992.

## Events
### April

* 10 – The 19th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 10 – 12).

### May

* 20 – The 20th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 20 – 31).

### June

* 5 – The 21st Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 5 – 8).

### July

* 2 – 26th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Switzerland (July 2 – 18).
* 10 – The 17th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 10 – 12).

### August

* 13 – The 9th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 13 – 15).

### September

* 18 – The 35th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 18 – 20).

## Album releases

* Jane Ira Bloom: Art and Aviation
* Maria Schneider: Evanescence
* Geri Allen: Maroons
* Wynton Marsalis: Citi Movement
* Joe Lovano: Universal Language
* Terence Blanchard: The Malcolm X Jazz Suite
* Sergey Kuryokhin: Some Combination of Fingers and Passion
* Medeski Martin & Wood: Notes From the Underground
* Courtney Pine: To The Eyes Of Creation
* Hank Roberts: Little Motor People
* Zeena Parkins: Ursa's Door
* Steve Turre: Sanctified Shells
* Pat Metheny: Secret Story
* Charles Gayle: Repent
* Michael Formanek: Loose Cannon
* Franz Koglmann: L'Heure Bleue
* Bill Frisell: Have a Little Faith
* Michael Mantler: Folly Seeing All This
* Bill Frisell: This Land
* Kenny Wheeler: Kayak
* Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin: Play
* Aydin Esen: Anadolu
* Christy Doran: Corporate Art
* Hal Russell: Hal's Bells
* Joachim Kuhn: Dynamics
* John Scofield: What We Do
* Mulgrew Miller: Hand In Hand
* Paul Plimley: When Silence Pulls
* Ray Anderson: Every One of Us
* Uri Caine: Sphere Music
* Sonny Simmons: Ancient Ritual
* John Pizzarelli: All of Me
* Roy Campbell: New Kingdom
* David S. Ware: Flight of I
* Matthew Shipp: Circular Temple
* Eliane Elias: Fantasia
* Hugh Masekela: Beatin' Aroun de Bush
* Yellowjackets: Live Wires

## Deaths
### January

* 17 – Charlie Ventura, American tenor saxophonist and bandleader (born 1916).

### February

* 8 – Denny Wright, English guitarist (born 1924).

### March

* 4 – Mary Osborne, American guitarist (born 1921).
* 6 – Hugh Gibb, English drummer and bandleader (born 1916).

### April

* 14 – Sammy Price, American pianist and bandleader (born 1908).
* 20 – Leon Abramson or Lee Abrams, American drummer (born 1925).

### June

* 10 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (born 1931).

### August

* 1 – Alfred "Chico" Alvarez, American trumpeter (born 1920).
* 11 – Hayes Pillars, American tenor saxophonist and bandleader (born 1906).

### October

* 3 – John Carisi, American trumpeter and composer (born 1922).
* 7 – Ed Blackwell, American drummer (born 1929).

### November

* 8 – Red Mitchell, American upright bassist (born 1927).
* 14 – George Adams, American saxophonist (born 1940).
* 24 – June Tyson, American singer (born 1926).

### December

* 11 – Andy Kirk, American saxophonist and tubist (born 1898).

## Births
### January

* 17 – Kristian B. Jacobsen, Norwegian bassist and composer.

### March

* 5 – Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir, Icelandic/Norwegian guitarist, singer, and composer.
* 6 – Lukas Zabulionis, Norwegian saxophonist and composer.
* 15 – Elisabeth Lid Trøen, Norwegian saxophonist.
* 17 – Alf Hulbækmo, Norwegian pianist.

### April

* 6 – Mathias Stubø, Norwegian electronica artist.

### October

* 1 – Gismo Graf, German guitarist and composer.

### December

* 10 – Vincent Ingala, American saxophonist.

### Unknown date

* Axel Skalstad, Norwegian drummer.
* Siril Malmedal Hauge, Norwegian singer, composer and band leader.