- George Trantalidis and the group “Sphinx” record the first Greek Jazz music record. He was the first to merge Greek traditional music with jazz.
More about it http://www.jazzonline.gr/en/cd-releases/item/1908-sphinx.html
George Trantalidis interview http://www.jazzonline.gr/en/articlesinterviews/interviews/item/1813-george-trantalidis-interview.html
-The first daring duet and the first Greek modern jazz recording at the Jazz Club of Barakos in Plaka by Floros Floridis & Sakis Papadimitriou. More about Improvising at Barakos http://www.jazzonline.gr/en/cd-releases/item/1909-improvising-at-barakos.html
Around the world
-Charles Mingus dies aged 56. Other leading performers join forces in small groups, some of which celebrate his work.
-Mingus Dynasty formed by Susan Graham Ungaro Mingus in memory of her husband, records Chair in the sky .
-In an interview published in Downbeat, Joe Zawinul argues that the music of his seminal Fusion Group Weather Report is based more on Black rhytm’n’blues than on white rock music.
-Keith Jarret ant Jan Garbarek record Nude Ants at the Village Vangard, New York for ECM.
-Pianist Bill Evans makes his last major recordings, in Paris (November 1979)
-The Manhattan Transfer ‘extensions makes a pop hit of Joe Zaniwul’s “Birdland”
-The first edition of Copenhagen Jazz Festival . It will becomes one of the largest and most respected music events of its kind in Europe
-Grant Green dies aged 48