1974 in jazz:

Events

Album releases

• Sam Rivers: Crystals (1974)
• Cecil Taylor: Silent Tongues (1974)
• Steve Lacy: Saxophone Special (1974)
• Jeanne Lee: Conspiracy (1974)
• Leo Smith: Reflectativity (1974)
• Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller (1974)
• Randy Weston: Blues To Africa (1974)
• Marion Brown: Sweet Earth Flying (1974)
• Paul Rutherford: Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie (1974)
• Marvin Peterson: Children of the Fire (1974)
• John Abercrombie: Timeless (1974)
• Roswell Rudd: Flexible Flyer (1974)
• McCoy Tyner: Atlantis (1974)
• Globe Unity Orchestra: Hamburg '74 (1974)
• Cecil McBee: Mutima (1974)
• Mahavishnu Orchestra: Apocalypse (1974)
• Ralph Towner: Solstice (1974)
• Terje Rypdal: Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away (1974)
• Roscoe Mitchell: Solo Saxophone Concerts (1974)
• Steve Kuhn: Ecstasy (1974)
• Joe McPhee: Pieces Of Light (1974)
• Keith Jarrett: Death and the Flower (1974)
• Steve Kuhn: Trance (1974)
• Steve Lacy: Scraps (1974)
• David Liebman: Drum Ode (1974)
• Kenny Barron: Peruvian Blue (1974)
• Tete Montoliu: Music for Perla (1974)
• Bill Watrous: Manhattan Wildlife Refuge (1974)
• Lonnie Liston Smith: Expansions (1974)
• Mike Gibbs: Only Chrome Waterfall (1974)
• McCoy Tyner: Sama Layuca (1974)
• Oregon: Winter Light (1974)
• Billy Cobham: Total Eclipse (1974)

Deaths

• Duke Ellington (April 29, 1899 May 24, 1974)
• Bobby Timmons (December 19, 1935 - March 1, 1974)
• Gene Ammons (April 14, 1925 August 6, 1974)
• Tina Brooks (June 7, 1932 August 13, 1974)
• Paul Gonsalves (July 12, 1920 - May 15, 1974)
• Harry Carney (April 1, 1910 - October 8, 1974)

Births

External links

• The Best Jazz Albums of the 1970s