1976 in jazz

1976 in jazz
File:Wallace Davenport.jpg Wallace Davenport at the 1976 North Sea Jazz Festival
Decade	1970s in jazz
Music	1976 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1975 in jazz – 1977 in jazz

1976 in jazz:

Album releases

• Keith Jarrett: Survivors Suite
• George Lewis: Solo Trombone Record
• Air: Air Raid
• David Murray: Flowers for Albert
• Derek Bailey: Company 1
• Jan Garbarek: Dis
• Irene Schweizer: Wilde Senoritas
• Toshiko Akiyoshi: Road Time
• Albert Mangelsdorff: Tromboneliness
• Leo Smith: Song of Humanity
• Tony Coe: Zeitgeist
• Ornette Coleman: Dancing in Your Head
• Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius
• Martial Solal: Movability
• Hamiet Bluiett: Endangered Species
• Art Lande: Rubisa Patrol
• Chick Corea: Romantic Warrior
• George Adams: Suite For Swingers
• Jean-Luc Ponty: Imaginary Voyage
• David Friesen: Star Dance
• Dexter Gordon: Biting the Apple
• Joachim Kuhn: Springfever
• Eberhard Weber: The Following Morning
• Lew Tabackin: Dual Nature
• Chico Freeman: Morning Prayer
• Weather Report: Black Market
• Charles Tyler: Saga Out of the Outlaws
• Al Di Meola: Land of The Midnight Sun
• Woody Shaw: Little Red's Fantasy
• Stanley Clarke: School Days
• Yosuke Yamashita: Banslikana
• Ran Blake: Wende
• Guenter Christmann: Solomusiken Fuer Posaune und Kontrabasse
• Egberto Gismondi: Dança Das Cabeças
• Michael Franks: The Art of Tea

Deaths

• Vince Guaraldi ( July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976)
• Ray Nance (December 10, 1913 – January 28, 1976)

Births

• Emilie-Claire Barlow (6 June), Canadian singer and voice actress
• Orrin Evans, American pianist
• Pekka Kuusisto (7 October), Finnish violinist
• Ferenc Nemeth, Hungarian drummer
• Alex Pangman, Canadian singer
• Gretchen Parlato, American singer
• Ben Wendel (20 February), Canadian-American saxophonist
• Yasuyuki "Yaz" Takagi, Japanese saxophonist

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