* 1938 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 2008 )

Geddy Lee playing his Fender jazz bass at a 2008 live performance at the Xcel Energy Center

* John Young ( jazz pianist ) ( 1922 – 2008 ), American jazz pianist

* 2008 – Chalmers " Spanky " Alford, American jazz guitarist ( b. 1955 )

* 1922 – Neal Hefti, American jazz musician ( d. 2008 )

* April 16 – Esbjörn Svensson Swiss jazz pianist ( d. 2008 )

* April 26 – Jimmy Giuffre, American jazz musician ( died 2008 )

** Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician and radio personality ( died 2008 )

** Chalmers " Spanky " Alford, American jazz guitarist ( d. 2008 )

At the beginning of the 21st century, Beiderbecke's music continues to reside mostly out of the mainstream and some of the facts of his life are still debated, but scholars largely agree — due in part to the influence of Sudhalter and Evans — that he was an important innovator in early jazz ; jazz cornetists, including Sudhalter ( before his death in 2008 ), and Tom Pletcher, closely emulate his style.

As of 2008, it remains primarily, although not exclusively, a jazz instrument.

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton ( 23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008 ), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster, and chairman of the BBC radio comedy programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

On January 21, 2008, El Records released the record Rebel Poets in America, which included classic poetry readings with jazz accompaniment by both Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, including such Patchen classics as " The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves " and " I Went To The City.

In 2008, The Blue Note 7, a jazz septet, were formed in honor of the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records.

Also, in the 1970s Jerry Reed song " Amos Moses ," in the 1990s George Strait song " Adalida ," in Dan Baird's 1992 song " Dixie Beauxderaunt ," the 1999 Jimmy Buffett song " I will Play for Gumbo ," the 2008 Toby Keith song " Creole Woman ," and its name is the title of a song by jazz songstress Marcia Ball.

* Jimmy McGriff ( 1936 – 2008 ), jazz and blues organist.

* 2008 – Norwegian electronic jazz trio Halt the Flux performed their interpretation of the soundtrack for Man with a Movie Camera in Bergen International Film Festival.

Henry is not only a jazz guitarist, but Master artist of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar for which he is world-renowned, and recognised by the state and governor as such. www. henrykallen. com, guitarmaui @ aol. com Henry is currently as of July 29, 2008, producing jazz CDs and is author of two published books on music, " Learning to play the Hawaiian Steel Guitar " and Ukulele, Pila Li ' i Li ' i. Henry is now considered one of Hawaii's " Living Treasures ".

Frederick Dewayne " Freddie " Hubbard ( April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008 ) was an American jazz trumpeter.

* Leucocyte ( album ), a 2008 album by the jazz band E. S. T.

Neal Hefti ( October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008 ) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger.

The Pat Metheny Trio ( Metheny on guitar, Sanchez on drums, and Christian McBride on bass ) released Day Trip in January 2008 to wide acclaim amongst jazz critics.

* 1957 – Anca Parghel, Romanian singer and pianist ( d. 2008 )

* August 17 – Zvi Keren, American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer ( d. 2008 )

** Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist ( d. 2008 )

The last winner of this significant competition was the Chinese pianist Yin Yu Qin, in 2008, in the fiftieth competition.

On December 11, 2008, Carter celebrated his 100th birthday at Carnegie Hall in New York, where the Boston Symphony Orchestra and pianist Daniel Barenboim played his Interventions for Piano and Orchestra written that year.

Interventions for Piano and Orchestra received its premiere on December 5, 2008, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine featuring pianist Daniel Barenboim at Symphony Hall in Boston.

In 2008 Corea collaborated with Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara on the live album Duet ( Chick Corea and Hiromi ).

A reconstruction of the score was undertaken by the American transcription specialist Chris Eric Jensen in 2005 in collaboration with the pianist Håvard Gimse who gave the piece its first performance on Tveitt's 100th birthday on October 19, 2008, the first time it had been played by a pianist other than the composer.

Warner Music France has issued an ' Édition officielle Evgeny Svetlanov ' featuring Svetlanov's legacy of recordings as conductor and pianist, which by July 2008 had run to 35 volumes of CDs, often multiple-CD boxed sets.

Chang had her recital at Carnegie Hall on April 7, 2007 with British pianist Ashley Wass, and continued to perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen and make appearances with the former at both the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall throughout 2008.

In the summer of 2008, she was invited as the first pianist from the North America to perform at the Kirovohrad Spring Music Festival in Ukraine that carries long history of featuring only Russian piano legends.

Steven Victor Tallarico was born, March 26, 1948 in Yonkers, New York, the son of Susan ( née Blancha ; June 2, 1925 – July 4, 2008 ), a secretary, and Victor A. Tallarico ( May 14, 1916 – September 10, 2011 ), a classical musician and pianist.

During 2008, Fabian was in Belgium preparing to record a French album with pianist Mark Herskowitz, who had composed and arranged the hidden instrumental track featured on the 2001 album Nue.

Daniel Carter and Dickey recorded an album pianist Eri Yamamoto in 2008.

In September 2008, the CD Gomidas Songs, sung by Isabel Bayrakdarian and accompanied by the Chamber Players of the Armenian Philharmonic and pianist Serouj Kradjian, was released on the Nonesuch label.

* Ben Schoeman ( 2002 ): internationally acclaimed pianist ; winner of the 2008 Vodacom Unisa International Piano Competition

USA on 1 February 2007 ); Sonata for Organ ( premiered by Robert Green at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales on 22 August 2007 ); the opera, Far from the Madding Crowd, premièred at the Thomas Hardy Festival in July 2006 ; Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Voice, premiered by soprano Paula Downes at the MIT Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 6 March 2008 ; Sonata for Horn, Violin and Piano for the Brahms Trio Prague ( Monica Vrabcová, violin ; Ondrej Vrabec, Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Wiesner, piano ), premiered at the Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague on 5 February 2008 ( a CD of this work has now been released on the Czech Philharmonic Artesmon label ); Finished Fields, a setting of four poems by Wilfred Owen commissioned by Jonathan Pugsley ( bass-baritone ) and Duncan Honeybourne ( piano ) and premiered in Weymouth, Dorset on 12 November 2008 ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for pianist Duncan Honeybourne and the Central England Ensemble, conducted by Anthony Bradbury in Birmingham Town Hall on 1 March 2009, and given again by the same artists in Coventry Cathedral in July 2010 ; Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano for Peter Sheridan, premiered in 2009 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Sonata for Clarinet and Piano for clarinettist Angus Merion and Duncan Honeybourne, premiered in Salisbury, UK in January 2010.

Kate, a five-member indy-folk-pop group ( started in 2008, first album in 2010, titled Can't keep Secrets ), brought out its second album Life in Stereo in 2012 with a new pianist, Tom.

* 1924 – John Harvey-Jones, English businessman ( d. 2008 )

John M. Lundquist, author of The Temple of Jerusalem: past, present, and future ( 2008 ), discounts this idea.

* John Jaakke ( 2003 – 2008 )

Westminster John Knox Press ( 2008 ).

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

In 2008 however Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County / Carson City, defeating John McCain 49 % to 48 %, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1 %.

On May 7, 2008, following speculation by John Carmack at QuakeCon on August 3, 2007, Doom 4 was announced as in production.

* 2008: The Edge of Love starring Matthew Rhys as the poet, directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, and drawing on David N. Thomas ' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.

* 2008 – John Drake, New Zealand rugby union footballer ( b. 1959 )

In January 2008, Dark Horse Comics began releasing a four-part monthly comic book mini-series based on Evil Dead, written by Mark Verheiden, with art by John Bolton, who provided art for the Dark Horse Army of Darkness comic.

Ellensburg leans toward supporting Democrats, giving then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois 56. 3 percent of its total vote in the 2008 presidential election to 41. 5 percent for his Republican rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

* Jerry Sumney, Colossians ( New Testament Library ; Louisville ; Ky .: Westminster John Knox, 2008 )

Floating Point is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 2008 through the record label Abstract Logix.

* 1963 – John Marzano, American baseball player ( d. 2008 )

* 1947 – John McWethy, American journalist ( d. 2008 )

* Drakakis, John & Dale Townshend ( 2008 ).

* Riddle, John M. A history of the Middle Ages, 300-1500 ( 2008 )

* RFC 5242 A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections ( with John Klensin ) April 1, 2008

* Gravett, Sandra L., " An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: A Thematic Approach " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2008 )

* Lemche, Neils Peter, " The Old Testament between theology and history: a critical survey " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2008 )

The state's senior ( Class II ) member of the United States Senate, re-elected in 2008, is John Kerry.

On June 5, 2008, Ice-T jokingly stated that he would be voting for John McCain in the 2008 American elections.

Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, IMU released a report in 2008 " Mathematics in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities " on the current state of mathematics in Africa and on opportunities for new initiatives to support mathematical development.

John Carmack said in an interview at QuakeCon 2007 that there will be a Doom 4, it has been in development since May 7, 2008.