1948 in jazz
1948 in Jazz:
Events
The Nice Jazz Festival is inaugurated. Held annually in Nice, on the French Riviera, it is "the first jazz festival of international significance."
Album releases
Coleman Hawkins: Picasso
Standards
Deaths
Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist, singer, dancer and composer
Dave Tough, American jazz drummer
Jan Savitt, American bandleader, musical arranger, and violinist
Kaiser Marshall, American jazz drummer
Mutt Carey, New Orleans jazz trumpeter
Red McKenzie, one of the only comb players in jazz history
Sidney Arodin, American jazz clarinetist and songwriter
Stan Hasselgård, Swedish jazz clarinetist
Births
Aki Takase, Japanese jazz pianist and composer
Al Arsenault, American blues and jazz organ player
Alphonse Mouzon, jazz-fusion drummer and percussionist
Avery Brooks, American actor, jazz musician, opera singer and college professor
Barbara Hendricks, American-born operatic soprano and concert singer
Bill Heid, American pianist and organist
Bill Pierce, American saxophonist
