- Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, a group that nurtured several generations of exciting performers, are reunited just one year before the great drummer’s death.
- Roy Eldridge dies in New York aged 78.
- 19 years old trumpeter Roy Hargrove, records Diamond in the Rough.
- Keith Jarrett Trio records Standards live in Oslo for ECM.
- Charles Mingus’s large-scale work Epitaph, completed and edited by Gunther Schuller, receives posthumous first performance.
In Greece, 4 releases from Nana Simopoulos, Pandelis Karayorgis, Sakis Papadimitriou and Yiorgos Fakanas :
Nana Simopoulos - Still Waters http://jazzonline.gr/en/cd-releases/item/2088-still-waters-1989.html
Pandelis Karayorgis - Hand Made: Music of Thelonious Monk + One. from Boston http://www.jazzonline.gr/en/cd-releases/item/2099-hand-made.html
Sakis Papadimitriou - Piano Oracles http://www.jazzonline.gr/en/cd-releases/item/2116-piano-oracles-%E2%80%93-1989.html
Yiorgos Fakanas - Horizon http://www.jazzonline.gr/en/cd-releases/item/1986-horizon-1989.html
Jazz Chronicle – 1989
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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.
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