1972 in jazz
| 1972 in jazz | |
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| Decade | 1970s in jazz |
| Music | 1972 in music |
| Standards | List of post-1950 jazz standards |
| See also | 1971 in jazz – 1973 in jazz |
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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1972.
Events
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Musicians of the Michael Gibbs Big band, NDR jazz workshop 1972.
April
- 21
- Grant Green records Live at the Lighthouse at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California.[1]
June
- 10 – The very first Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 10 – 11).[2]
- 16 – The 6th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 16 – August 20).[3]
- 29 – The 19th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (June 29 – July 8).[4]
September
- 15 – The 15th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 15 – 17).[5]
Album releases
- Anthony Braxton – Saxophone Improvisations
- Dave Holland – Conference of the Birds
- McCoy Tyner – Sahara
- London Jazz Composers Orchestra – Ode
- Weather Report – I Sing the Body Electric
- Jean-Luc Ponty – Sonata Erotica
- Herbie Hancock – Crossings
- John Surman – Westering Home
- Chick Corea – Light as a Feather
- Gunter Hampel – Familie
- Chick Corea – Return To Forever
- Paul Motian – Conception Vessel
- Neil Ardley – Symphony of Amaranths
- David Liebman – Open Sky
- Ornette Coleman – Skies of America
- Gato Barbieri – Bolivia
- Eric Kloss – One, Two, Free
- Gary Burton – Crystal Silence
- Gunter Hampel – Angel
- Albert Mangelsdorff – Trombirds
- Julius Hemphill – Dogon AD
- Randy Weston – Tanjah
- Gunter Hampel – Waltz For 11 Universes In A Corridor
- Joe Henderson – Black Is The Color
- Gunter Hampel – Broadway,
- Nucleus – Belladonna
- Miles Davis – On The Corner
- Oregon – Music Of Another Present Era
- Paul Bley – Open, to Love
- George Russell – Living Time
- McCoy Tyner – Echoes of a Friend
- Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire
- Stanley Cowell – Illusion Suite
- Stanley Clarke – Children of Forever
- Gary Bartz – Juju Street Songs
- Airto Moreira – Free
- Charles Earland – Charles III
- Stanley Turrentine – Cherry
- Bucky Pizzarelli – Green Guitar Blues
Deaths
- February
- 19 – Lee Morgan (33), American trumpeter
- June
- 8 – Jimmy Rushing (70), American singer
- December
- 5 – Kenny Dorham (48), American trumpeter, singer, and composer
- 29 – Hayes Alvis (65), American upright-bassist and tubist
Births
- September
- 12 – Gerard Presencer, English trumpeter
- October
- 12 – Eugene Ball, Australian composer and trumpeter
See also
References
- ↑ Huey, Steve. Grant Green - Live at the Lighthouse at AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
- ↑ "Moers International New Jazz Festival 1972". Moers Festival. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
- ↑ "Montreux Jazz Festival 1972 Setlists". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
- ↑ "Newport Jazz Festival 1972 Poster". Ebay.com. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
- ↑ "The Monterey Jazz Festival 1972 Poster". EarlNewmanPrints.com. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
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