In 1976, Jordan won an award at the Reno, Nevada, Jazz Festival.

At the age of 14, Jones became choirmaster and organist at a local church and during that year, he also bought his first bass guitar, a Dallas solid body electric followed by multiple basses in which he part exchanged until he finally bought his 1962 Fender Jazz Bass which he used until 1976.

* Homage To Django ( 1972, released 1976 Classic Jazz )

Reconstructions of it have been recorded by Michael Tilson Thomas and the Columbia Jazz Band in 1976, and by Maurice Peress with Ivan Davis on piano as part of a 60th-anniversary reconstruction of the entire 1924 concert.

A DVD video of the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival performance ( featuring the Heavy Weather lineup of Pastorius, Acuna, and Badrena ) has become available as well.

* Norman P. Gentieu, " Eastwood Lane ", Journal of Jazz Studies, Spring 1976, Vol.

In 1976 the first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place.

On his album Dis ( 1976 ), Jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek used recordings of an Aeolian harp which was situated at a Norwegian fjord as a background sound.

He also appeared on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1976 album.

Some other notable music education organizations which are located in Washington include the DC Youth Orchestra Program, founded in 1960 ; the Blues Alley Jazz Society, founded in 1985 ; and the Levine School of Music, founded in 1976.

* Jazz Is ( 1976 )

* 1976: Jazz of the 70's ( Circle )

Wallace Davenport at the 1976 North Sea Jazz Festival.

In 1969 he went back to doing traditional jazz in New Orleans, and issued recordings of his groups playing this style from on his own label My Jazz ( 1971 – 1976 ); recorded again in Europe with George Wein in 1974, with Panama Francis and Arnett Cobb in 1976, and also reunited with Hampton and recorded with Earl Hines this same year.

* 1976: Jazz A Confronto vol. 29

** Best Jazz Instrumental Performance-Big Band: 1976 ( Long Yellow Road ), 1977 ( Road Time ), 1978 ( Insights ), 1979 ( Kogun ), 1980 ( Farewell ), 1981 ( Tanuki's Night Out ), 1984 ( Ten Gallon Shuffle ), 1985 ( March of the Tadpoles ), 1992 ( Carnegie Hall Concert ), 1994 ( Desert Lady / Fantasy ).

** Jazz Album of the Year: 1976 ( Long Yellow Road )

His first Warner Bros. LP Breezin ' ( 1976 ) became one of the most successful jazz albums of the decade and a major ' crossover ' hit — it topped the American Pop, R & B and Jazz album charts and produced two hit singles, the title track ( which became a jazz standard and a radio favourite ) and " This Masquerade ," which was a Top 10 pop and R & B hit.

He played many of the largest and best-known folk festivals, including the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D. C. in 1972, the Mariposa Fest in Toronto in 1974, and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1976.

Jazz session drummer Norman Connors became Buddah's musical director in 1976 and helped to foster the label's move toward R & B and disco ( e. g., the Andrea True Connection's " More, More, More " ( 1976 ) and Chic's " Dance, Dance, Dance ( Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah )" ( 1977 ), the latter hit the charts on its subsequent re-issue by Atlantic Records ).

In 1976, he opened a studio with Boston's First Lady of Jazz, Mae Arnette.

* Best Jazz Instrumental Performance-Big Band: 1967 ( Live at the Village Vanguard ), 1969 ( Central Park North ), 1970 ( Consummation ), 1975 ( Potpourri ), 1976 ( New Life )

* 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and singer ( The Hellacopters, Dundertåget, and Thunder Express )

* 1976 – Mikko Lindström, Finnish singer and guitarist ( HIM and WhoCares )

* 1976 – Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and ¡ All-Time Quarterback!

* 1976 – Tommy Bolin, American guitarist ( b. 1951 )

* 1976 – Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist ( Murderdolls and Wednesday 13 )

* 1976 – Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist ( Deadsy )

* 1976 – Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1976 – David Kennedy, American guitarist ( Angels & Airwaves, Box Car Racer, Hazen Street, and Over My Dead Body )

* 1976 – Justin Pierre, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and filmmaker ( Motion City Soundtrack )

* 1976 – Ana Popović, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist

* Micah Ortega ( born 1976 ), American guitarist

Mance Lipscomb ( April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976 ) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songster.

In February 1976, the band received its first significant press coverage ; guitarist Steve Jones declared that the Sex Pistols were not so much into music as they were " chaos ".

* 1976 – Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Mew and Apparatjik )

* 1950 – Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter ( Free, Black Cat Bones, and Back Street Crawler ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1934 – Freddie King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Brendan Kelly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Lawrence Arms, The Broadways, and The Falcon )

Mackenzie and guitarist Alan Rankine met in Dundee in 1976 and formed the cabaret duo The Ascorbic Ones.

Once they had recruited bass guitarist Steve Diggle and drummer John Maher, they made their debut opening for the Sex Pistols ' second Manchester concert in July 1976.

* Chester Burnett ( 1910 – 1976 ), known as Howlin ' Wolf, American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player

* Ana Popović ( born 1976 ), a Serbian blues guitarist and singer

Kurt Donald Cobain ( 20 February 1967 – 5 April 1994 ), Nirvana lead singer and guitarist, moved to Montesano with his father as a child, following the divorce of his parents in 1976.

" Edge produced two albums with guitarist Adrian Gurvitz, Kick Off Your Muddy Boots ( 1975 ) and Paradise Ballroom ( 1976 ); Hayward composed the acoustically textured Songwriter ( 1977 ), which would be followed up in later years by Night Flight ( 1980 ), Moving Mountains ( 1985 ), ( which Hayward dedicated to Peter Knight ) Classic Blue ( 1989 ), The View From The Hill ( 1996 ), and Live In San Juan Capistrano ( 1998 ); Lodge released Natural Avenue ( 1977 ); Pinder produced The Promise ( 1976 ); and Thomas collaborated on two projects with songwriter Nicky James, producing From Mighty Oaks ( 1975 ) and Hopes, Wishes and Dreams ( 1976 ).