downbeat jazz awards 1976

• Excellent performance live from the DownBeat Jazz Awards
• Includes the entire TV Channel 13 and KZEW-FM Simulcast
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Background liners

In 1976, award winners of DownBeat magazine's annual poll assembled to present a concert in Chicago, the city in which the publication was founded and based.

The performances on this disc were simulcast on KZEW-FM radio and TV Channel 13 and feature some of the top jazz stars of the mid-1970s, including George Benson, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Gary Burton.

Track Listing:

• Intro
• Band introductions - Billie's Bounce
• Stanley Clarke: Lopsy Lu
• Announcer
• George Benson: Breezin'
• George Benson: Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
• Announcer
• Sonny Fortune: Invitation
• Announcer
• Bill Watrous: Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
• Thad Jones: Autumn Leaves
• Announcer
• Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Falling Grace
• Announcer
• Ensemble: All Blues
• Station Interruption
• Trio: Our Love Is Here to Stay