# 2014 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2014.

## Events
### January

* A percussion focused jazz funk band called Ghost-Note is founded by two members of Snarky Puppy: Robert "Sput" Searight (drums) and Nate Werth (percussion)
* 16 – The 9th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway (January 16 – 19).
* 22 – The 3rd Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway (January 22 – 26).

### February

* 5 – The 16th Polarjazz Festival started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (February 5 – 9).
* 28 – The 10th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia (February 28 – March 2).

### April

* 11 – The 41st Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 11 – 13).
* 12
** Sigbjørn Apeland was awarded Vossajazzprisen 2014.
** Mats Eilertsen performed the commissioned work Rubicon for Vossajazz 2014.
* 23 – The 20th SoddJazz started in Inderøy, Norway (April 23 – 27).
* 25 – The 3rd Torino Jazz Festival started in Turin (April 25 – May 1).
* 30 – The International Jazz Day.

### May

* 22 – The 42nd Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 22 – 31)

### June

* 26
** The 34th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (June 26 – July 6).
** The 26th Jazz Fest Wien started in Vienna, Austria (June 26 – July 11).

### July

* 2 – The 50th Kongsberg Jazzfestival started at Kongsberg, Norway (July 2 – 5).
* 4
** The 36th Copenhagen Jazz Festival started in Copenhagen, Denmark (July 4 – 14).
** The 48th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 4 – 18).
* 5 – Mathias Eick was recipient of the Kongsberg Jazz Award or DNB.prisen 2014 at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival.
* 8 – The 67th Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France (July 8 – 12).
* 10 – The 14th Stavernfestivalen started in Stavern, Norway (July 10 – 12).
* 11 – The 39th North Sea Jazz Festival started in Rotterdam, Netherlands (July 11 – 13).
* 12
** The 26th Aarhus Jazz Festival started in Aarhus, Denmark (July 12 – 19).
** The 49th Pori Jazz Festival started in Pori, Finland (July 12 – 20).
* 14 – The 54th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway with Sidsel Endresen as artist in residence (July 14 – 19).
* 15 – Monkey Plot was awarded the JazzIntro 2014 at Moldejazz.
* 22 – The 19th Canal Street started in Arendal, Norway (July 22 – 26).

### August

* 3 – The 58th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (August 3 – 5).
* 6 – The 28th Sildajazz started in Haugesund, Norway (August 6–10).
* 7 – The 30th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (August 7 – 9).
* 11 – The 29th Oslo Jazzfestival started in Oslo, Norway (August 11–16).
* 12 – Odd André Elveland was recipient of the Ella-prisen 2014 at the Oslo Jazzfestival.

### September

* 4 – The 10th Punktfestivalen started in Kristiansand, Norway (September 4 – 6).
* 19 – The 57th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 19 – 21).

### October

* 10 – The 31st Stockholm Jazz Festival started in Stockholm, Sweden (October 10 – 19).

### November

* 14 – The 23rd London Jazz Festival started in London, England (November 14 – 23).

### December
## Album released
### January

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes |
| 6 | Fly North | Jan Gunnar Hoff | Losen Records | |
| 10 | Chron | Arve Henriksen | Rune Grammofon | |
| 17 | Extended Circle | Tord Gustavsen Quartet | ECM Records | Produced by Manfred Eicher |
| 17 | Medea | Eleni Karaindrou | ECM Records | Produced by Manfred Eicher |
| 27 | Valencia | Hildegunn Øiseth | Losen Records | |

### February

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes |
| 3 | Kin (←→) | Pat Metheny Unity Group | Nonesuch Records | Produced by Pat Metheny |
| 7 | Acres Of Blue | Espen Berg | Atterklang | AKLANG308 |
| 28 | Mutations | Vijay Iyer | ECM Records | Produced by Manfred Eicher |

### March

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes |
| 7 | Behind The Sun | Motorpsycho with Reine Fiske | Rune Grammofon | |
| 21 | Piano Songs | Meredith Monk | ECM Records | Produced by Allison Sniffin, Meredith Monk |
| 28 | Maelstrom | Stian Westerhus & Pale Horses | Rune Grammofon | |
| 28 | Play Blue (Oslo Concert) | Paul Bley | ECM Records | Produced by Manfred Eicher |

### April

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes |
| 7 | Chet På Norsk / Ei Som Deg | Baker Hansen | NorCD | |
| 11 | Enfant Terrible | Hedvig Mollestad Trio | Rune Grammofon | |
| 25 | Lion | Marius Neset | ACT Music | |
| 25 | El Valle De La Infancia | Dino Saluzzi Group | ECM Records | Produced by Manfred Eicher |

### May

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes | Ref. |
| 16 | Forever Young | Jacob Young | ECM Records | Produced by Manfred Eicher | |

### June

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes | Ref. |
| 24 | Enjoy the View | Bobby Hutcherson, David Sanborn, Joey DeFrancesco feat. Billy Hart | Blue Note | Produced by Don Was | |

### August

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes |
| 15 | Touchstone For Manu | Manu Katché feat. Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko, Tore Brunborg, Nils Petter Molvær, Mathias Eick, Trygve Seim | ECM | Produced by Manfred Eicher |
| 22 | The Nature Of Connections | Arve Henriksen | Rune Grammofon |
| 22 | Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra | Jack Cooper | Planet Arts Records | Produced by Luis Bonilla |

### September

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes | Ref. |
| 19 | Som Spor | Karl Seglem | NorCD | | |
| 30 | Up | The Stanley Clarke Band | Mack Avenue | | |

### October

| Day | Album | Artist | Label |
| 3 | Universal Cycle | Eple Trio | Shipwreckords |
| 17 | Innocent Play | Bjørn Alterhaug Quintet | Ponca Jazz Records |
| 17 | Skogenes Sang | In the Country & Frida Ånnevik | Grappa Music |
| 24 | Lumen Drones | Lumen Drones (Nils Økland, Per Steinar Lie, Ørjan Haaland) | ECM |
| 24 | A Passion For John Donne | Ketil Bjørnstad | ECM Records |
| 24 | World Of Glass | Terje Isungset & Arve Henriksen | All Ice Records |

### November

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes |
| 1 | Kryssande | Gisle Torvik and Hardanger Big Band | NorCD | |
| 10 | Trademark | Christer Fredriksen | Losen Records | |
| 7 | Bonita | Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus | Rune Grammofon | |
| 7 | Night Owl | Albatrosh | Rune Grammofon | |
| 11 | Silk Moon | Renaud Garcia-Fons with Derya Türkan | e-motive Records | |
| 21 | Diving | Ellen Andrea Wang | Propeller Recordings | |
| 24 | Lumen Drones | Lumen Drones (Ørjan Haaland, Nils Økland, Per Steinar Lie) | ECM Records | Produced by Manfred Eicher |
| 28 | Feeling // Emotion | Kristoffer Eikrem & Kjetil Jerve | NorCD | |

### December

| Day | Album | Artist | Label | Notes | Ref. |
| 5 | Den Tredje Dagen | Parallax | NorCD | | |

### Unknown date

M
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## Deaths
### January

* 1 – Sam Ulano, American drummer (born 1920).
* 9
** Amiri Baraka, African-American writer and music critic (born 1934).
** Roy Campbell Jr., American trumpeter (born 1952).
* 13 – Ronny Jordan, British guitarist (born 1962).
* 15 – Aage Teigen, Norwegian trombonist (born 1944).
* 18 – Billie Rogers, American trumpeter and singer (born 1917).
* 23 – Riz Ortolani, Italian film composer (born 1926).
* 25 – Arthur Doyle, American saxophonist, flutist, zanzithophonist, and vocalist (born 1924).
* 27 – Pete Seeger, American guitarist (born 1919).

### February

* 11 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (born 1924).
* 24 – Franny Beecher, American guitarist (born 1921).
* 25 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer (born 1947).

### March

* 13 – Al Harewood, American drummer (born 1923).

### April

* 1 – King Fleming, American pianist and bandleader (born 1922).
* 5
** Alan Davie, Scottish tenor saxophonist and painter (born 1920).
** Wayne Henderson, American soul jazz and hard bop trombonist and record producer (born 1939).
* 12 – Fred Ho, American baritone saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1957).
* 14 – Armando Peraza, Cuban percussionist, Santana (born 1924).
* 23 – Benjamín Brea, Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, flautist, and oboist (born 1946).
* 24 – Konstantin Orbelyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and head of the State Estrada Orchestra of Armenia (born 1928).

### May

* 4 – Earl Gill, Irish trumpeter and bandleader (born 1932).
* 8 – Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian musician and singer (born 1939).
* 9
** Frank Strazzeri, American pianist (born 1930).
** Joe Wilder, American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (born 1922).
* 25
** Edmund Percey, English architect and pianist (born 1929).
** Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor (born 1913).

### June

* 5 – Aaron Sachs, American saxophonist and clarinetist (born 1923).
* 12 – Jimmy Scott, American vocalist (born 1925).
* 18 – Horace Silver, American pianist (born 1928).
* 29 – Paul Horn, American jazz flautist and saxophonist (born 1930).

### July

* 5 – Kathy Stobart, English saxophonist (born 1925).
* 7 – Frankie Dunlop, American jazz drummer (born 1928).
* 11 – Charlie Haden, American upright-bassist (born 1937).
* 19 – Lionel Ferbos, American trumpeter (born 1911).
* 29
** Giorgio Gaslini, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1929).
** Idris Muhammad, American drummer (born 1939).

### August

* 3 – Kenny Drew Jr., American pianist (born 1958).
* 15 – John Blake Jr., American violinist (born 1947).
* 22 – John Ore, American bassist (born 1933).
* 24 – Fred Sturm, American composer, arranger, and teacher (born 1951).
* 27 – Roy Crimmins, English trombonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929).
* 28 – Alan Lawrence Turnbull, Australian drummer (born 1943).

### September

* 8 – Gerald Wilson, American trumpeter (born 1918).
* 12 – Joe Sample, American pianist (born 1939).
* 15 – Jackie Cain, American singer (born 1928).
* 18 – Kenny Wheeler, Canadian composer, trumpeter, and flugelhorn player (born 1930).
* 28 – Petr Skoumal, Czech pianist and composer (born 1938).
* 30 – Sheila Tracy, British broadcaster, writer, trombonist, and singer (born 1934).

### October

* 10 – Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader (born 1958).
* 11
** Brian Lemon, British pianist (born 1937).
** Mats Rondin, Swedish cellist and conductor (born 1960).
* 16 – Tim Hauser, American singer (born 1941).
* 24 – Vic Ash, English saxophonist and clarinetist (born 1930).
* 25 – Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist, composer and orchestra leader (born 1943).
* 31 – Renato Sellani, Italian pianist and composer (born 1926).

### November

* 2 – Acker Bilk, English clarinettist and vocalist (born 1929).
* 12 – Carlos Emilio Morales, Cuban guitarist (born 1939).
* 20 – Joe Bonner, American pianist (born 1948).

### December

* 2 – Chris White, American upright bassist (born 1936).
* 20 – Ronnie Bedford, American drummer and professor (born 1931).
* 24 – Buddy DeFranco, American clarinetist (born 1923).
* 26 – Al Belletto, American saxophonist and clarinetist (born 1928).
* 30 – Jim Galloway, Scottish-Canadian clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1936).