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1976 Jazz Album Releases
1975
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1976
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Jan 1
福居良 [Ryo Fukui]
Scenery
86
user score
(969)
Nov 1
Joni Mitchell
Hejira
85
critic score
(4)
86
user score
(420)
Jul 1
高中正義 [Masayoshi Takanaka]
Seychelles
84
user score
(332)
Apr
Bernard Herrmann
Taxi Driver
90
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(141)
1976
Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(114)
Sep 11
Return To Forever
Romantic Warrior
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(81)
1976
Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Everybody Loves the Sunshine
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(66)
Mar 11
Weather Report
Black Market
90
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(49)
1976
George Benson
Breezin'
70
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(46)
1976
Miles Davis
Pangaea
95
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(46)
Feb 1
Pat Metheny
Bright Size Life
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(37)
1976
Alice Coltrane
Eternity
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(32)
1976
Hiromasa Suzuki
High - Flying
78
user score
(28)
Jun 18
Brand X
Unorthodox Behaviour
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(27)
1976
Spin
Spin
83
user score
(22)
1976
Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Vibrations
70
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(21)
1976
Heatwave
Too Hot to Handle
80
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(21)
1976
Charles Mingus
Mingus at Antibes
100
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(19)
1976
Area
Maledetti (Maudits)
50
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(15)
Feb
Michael Franks
The Art of Tea
68
user score
(15)
1976
Eberhard Weber
The Following Morning
60
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(12)
1976
Gong
Gazeuse!
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(12)
Jan 1
Neil Ardley
Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(12)
Oct 8
Stanley Clarke
School Days
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(10)
1976
Chick Corea
My Spanish Heart
90
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(10)
Nov 12
Bill Conti
Rocky
90
critic score
(1)
87
user score
(8)
1976
Dizzy Gillespie & Machito
Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
60
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(8)
Jan 1
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Inner Worlds
90
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(8)
1976
Sun Ra
Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
80
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(6)
1976
Billy Cobham
Life & Times
70
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(3)
Advertisement
1976
Lockwood
Jazz-Rock
68
user score
(3)
1976
Kenny Wheeler
Gnu High
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(2)
Oct
John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner
Sargasso Sea
60
critic score
(1)
53
user score
(2)
Sep 3
Bob James
Three
60
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(2)
1976
Yuji Ohno
犬神家の一族 (Inugamike No Ichizoku)
90
user score
(2)
1976
The New Tony Williams Lifetime
Million Dollar Legs
20
critic score
(1)
60
user score
(2)
Jan 1
Funk Factory
Funk Factory
68
critic score
(3)
62
user score
(2)
Dec 1
Silvano Chimenti, Enrico Pieranunzi
Pulsar Music LTD.
80
user score
(1)
1976
Kimiko Kasai
We Can Fall in Love
70
user score
(1)
1976
Bill Pursell & The Nashville Sweat Band & Aides
The Sweat Sound
40
user score
(1)
1976
Donald Byrd
Caricatures
60
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(1)
1976
Pepe Sánchez Y Su Rock Band
Regresión
80
user score
(1)
1976
Stanley Turrentine
The Man with the Sad Face
50
critic score
(1)
40
user score
(1)
1976
Keith Jarrett
Arbour Zena
63
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(1)
1976
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
50
user score
(1)
1976
The Walter Murphy Band
A Fifth of Beethoven
1976
Kazumi Odagiri Trio
Kamikaze Squadron
1976
Attila Zoller
Dream Bells
60
critic score
(1)
1976
Jorge Dalto
Chevere
1976
The Billy Cobham / George Duke Band
"Live" - On Tour in Europe
60
critic score
(1)
Sep
Alphonso Johnson
Yesterday's Dreams
60
critic score
(1)
1976
Jim Hall
Commitment
60
critic score
(1)
1976
Jimmy McGriff
The Mean Machine
40
critic score
(1)
1976
Rashied Ali Quartet / Quintet
Moon Flight
80
critic score
(1)
1976
George Hirota
Sahasurara
1976
Kohske Mine Quintet
Sunshower
1976
Kenny Wheeler Quintet
1976
80
critic score
(1)
1976
Alphonso Johnson
Moonshadows
60
critic score
(1)
1976
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