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Chronicle of Jazz


Miles Davis : death of a legend... Miles Davis ,the most influential artist in the history of jazz, leaves the stage for the last time.


Chick Corea Electric Band helped revived the fortunes of fusion in the 1980’s and showcase the talents of drummer Dave Weckl.


Quincy Jones assembles a vast array of contempory talent for his album Back on the Block, a heady mixture of bop and popular styles, including rap.


Gill Evans dies aged 75. His orchestra undertakes a memorial tour of Italy ...


Jazz declared a “national treasure” by US congress.


In Greece, The group ISKRA released A New Day, their first ablum. Around the world, an era close with the passing of Benny Goodman &Thad Jones.


Few releases in Greece while Weather report records its final album This is This


Sun Ra visits Athens and Herbie Hancock win a grammy for "Rock it"


In Greece, 4releases this year from Sakis Papadimitriou, Floros Floridis, Anna Simopoulos and Thomas Sliomis with Daunik Lazro.
Around the world, Keith Jarrett returned to the trio format, Wynton Marsalis makes musical history & Herbie Hancock’s synthesized dance hit “Rockit”