1998 in jazz

Jazz in 1998: 120 albums and 31 deaths.

Albums released in 1998

Frank Sinatra - Legend Vocal Gold Series 1998 · Hey Presto! England In the Heat of the Night / They Call Me Mister Tibbs! 1998 · Rykodisc Ray Charles & Friends 1998 · Columbia Lullabies of Birdland / Sweet and Hot 1998 · MCA Records That Old Black Magic 1998 · FMCG Pilgrim 1998 · Duck Records Taming the Tiger 1998 · Reprise Records The Playground 1998 Oremi 1998 · Island Gershwin’s World 1998 I Got Rhythm / Concerto in F major / Rhapsody No. 2 / Préludes / Cuban Overture 1998 · Philips Classics Porgy & Bess 1998 · LaserLight Digital Gershwin Jazz 1998 · Columbia George & Ira Gershwin: Standards & Gems 1998 · Nonesuch The 100th Birthday Celebration 1998 · RCA Red Seal Rhapsody in Blue 1998 Gershwin Fantasy 1998 · Sony Classical Porgy & Bess: 1951 Studio Recording 1998 · Sony Classical Centennial Edition 1998 · Telarc Rhapsody in Blue 1998 · Delta Music Luzia 1998 · Mercury Records Order in the Court 1998 · Motown Szeptem 1998 · PolyGram Appalachian Spring / Billy the Kid / Fanfare for the Common Man 1998 · Sony Classical He Got Game: Motion Picture Soundtrack 1998 · Sony Classical Dave Brubeck Plays Standards 1998 · Columbia Oscar and Benny 1998 · Telarc Jazz A Royal Wedding Suite 1998 · Original Jazz Classics Being Myself 1998 · Blue Note The Professor Blues Review, Montreux, 1986 1998 · Live Something Old, Something New 1998 · Verve Closer to the Source 1998 · Atlantic Live and Loose in Paris 1998 · Live · Warner Music Germany Satch & Josh... Again 1998 · Original Jazz Classics Swingsation 1998 · GRP Music From the Motion Picture Madeline 1998 · Sony Wonder 12 Songs of Christmas 1998 · Private Music Life, Love & The Blues 1998 · BMG Brasil Ltda. Miller Plays Mercer 1998 · RCA Operation: Build Morale 1998 · RCA Victor ベスト 1998 High Time 1998 · BMG Music Spain, S.A. Scott Joplin on Guitar, Volume 2 1998 · Centaur Records The Complete Rags of Scott Joplin, Volume 1 1998 · Viridiana Productions It's Ragtime 1998 · E2 The Black Rider (studio recording with the original 1998 cast) 1998 · Theater Metropol Christmas With You 1998 · Hallmark Copacabana mon amour 1998 · Mercury Records The Messiah 1998 · ISS Classics Moments in the Moonlight 1998 · Newsound 2000 I'm Confessin' 1998 · Memoir Standard Time, Volume 5: The Midnight Blues 1998 Time After Time 1998 · BCI Eclipse Music Señor bolero 1998 · Rodven Records Global Warming 1998 Chico Buarque de Mangueira 1998 1998 · RCA Victor As cidades 1998 · BMG Brasil Ltda. American Scenes: Copland / Previn / Barber / Gershwin 1998 · Deutsche Grammophon A Streetcar Named Desire 1998 · Deutsche Grammophon We Got Rhythm: A Gershwin Songbook 1998 · Deutsche Grammophon Amanhã 1998 Send in the Clowns 1998 · Pablo Essence of Rhythm 1998 · PolyGram Sambandh 1998 · Terrascape Drums of India: Ecstasy 1998 · Saregama Mr. Bojangles 1998 · Traditional Lines It’s All Over but the Swingin’ / I Gotta Right to Swing! 1998 · MCA Records What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Bacharach and David 1998 · Verve by Request Ultimate Stan Getz 1998 · Verve Jazz 'Round Midnight: Bossa Nova 1998 · PolyGram Music from the Sound Track of "Mickey One" 1998 · Verve 70: A Seventieth Birthday Celebration 1998 · Concord Records At Long Last 1998 · Concord Records Come 2 My House 1998 · NPG Records Hazy Hugs 1998 · Challenge Records Once Upon a Summertime 1998 · Galaxy 'Round Midnight 1998 · Challenge Records From Left to Right 1998 · Verve Milhaud: Suite / Hindemith: Quartett / Bartók: Contrasts 1998 · Thorofon Symphonies 1 & 4 1998 · Classic Produktion Osnabrück Symphonies 2 & 3 "Te Deum" 1998 · Classic Produktion Osnabrück Music for two pianists: Scaramouche / La Libertadora / Songes / Kentuckiana / Le Bœuf sur le Toit / Le Bal Martiniquais / Carnaval à la Nouvelle-Orléans 1998 · Hyperion Chamber Music With Viola 1998 · ASV Digital Sinfonia n. 9 1998 · EMI Classics Mina Celentano 1998 · Clan Celentano Pappa di latte, Vol. 1 1998 · PDU Pappa di latte, Vol. 2 1998 · PDU Standing Together 1998 · GRP Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album 1998 · Chicago Records Pent Up House 1998 · Drive Archive From A to Z 1998 · Mercury Records Accentuate the Positive 1998 · Consolidated Artists Productions Chez Toots 1998 · Private Music Penthouse Serenade 1998 · Polydor Tango: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 1998 · Deutsche Grammophon Metamorphosis: Jazz Meets the Symphony #4 1998 · Aleph Records Lili'uokalani Symphony 1998 · Urtext Digital Classics Rush Hour 1998 · Aleph Records Jazz Mass in Concert 1998 · Aleph Records Arca de Noé 2 1998 · Mercury Records O Viramundo 1998 · Live · Mercury Records O Viramundo / Ao Vivo 1998 · Live · PolyGram Quanta gente veio ver 1998 · Live · Warner Music Brasil Wynton Marsalis 1998 · Live · Pulse The Best of Polka Party 1998 · Polydor Classics Up to Date, Volume 9 1998 · Polydor Classics Up to Date, Volume 8 1998 · Polydor Classics Up To Date Volume 1 1998 Country Roads 1998 · Polydor Russland zwischen Tag und Nacht 1998 · Polydor Mestres da Mpb 1998 · Live · WEA Brasil Somewhere Else 1998 · Zensor Spaceways 1998 · Freedom Metropolis B 1998 · B92 Aquemini 1998 · LaFace Records Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin 1998 · Verve Rites 1998 · ECM Records Music for Children 1998 · Tzadik Angelus Novus 1998 · Tzadik Aporias: Requia for Piano & Orchestra 1998 · Tzadik

Died in 1998

Damita Jo DeBlanc 1930–1998 · American actor, comedian and musician (1930-1998)

Egil Johansen 1934–1998 · Norwegian-Swedish musician (1934-1998)

Bob Haggart 1914–1998 · American double bass player, composer, and arranger… George Van Eps 1913–1998 · musician (1913-1998) Kenny Kirkland 1955–1998 · American musician (1955–1998)

Betty Carter 1929–1998 · American jazz singer, recording artist, songwriter… Andrzej Trzaskowski 1933–1998 · Polish composer and jazz musician (1933-1998)

Barrett Deems 1914–1998 · American musician (1914–1998) Jimmy Skidmore 1916–1998 · British musician

Nat Gonella 1908–1998 · British musician (1908–1998)

Tal Farlow 1921–1998 · American jazz guitarist (1921–1998)

Guy Lafitte 1927–1998 · French musician (1927–1998) Errol Parker 1930–1998 · French pianist and jazz musician (1930-1998) Horst Jankowski 1936–1998 · German composer Benny Green 1927–1998 · British jazz saxophonist and writer (1927-1998) Bobby Bryant 1934–1998 · American trumpeter (1934-1998) Harry Lookofsky 1913–1998 · American musician (1913–1998)

Dorothy Donegan 1924–1998 · American jazz pianist (1922–1998)

Frank Sinatra 1915–1998 · American singer and actor (1915–1998) Blue Lu Barker 1913–1998 · American jazz and blues singer (1913–1998) Tommy McCook 1927–1998 · Jamaican musician (1927–1998)

Mel Powell 1923–1998 · American composer (1923-1998) Helen Ward 1913–1998 · American jazz singer (1913–1998)

Tom Cora 1953–1998 · American cellist and composer (1953–1998)

Alvin Tyler 1925–1998 · American R&B and neo-bop jazz saxophonist and arranger George Howard 1956–1998 · American jazz saxophonist (1956–1988) Red Richards 1912–1998 · American musician (1912–1998) Attila Zoller 1927–1998 · Hungarian Jazz guitarist (1927-1998) Roy Porter 1923–1998 · American musician (1923-1998) Walter Bishop Jr. 1927–1998 · American jazz pianist and recording artist (1927–1998) Dave Schildkraut 1925–1998 · American musician (1925–1998)