As well as listing below links to the live albums featured on this website, there is also the poll to find the greatest live jazz albums.
Live Jazz Albums recorded in the 1970s include:
Count Basie Jam Session At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975
Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group Live 1976
Dave Brubeck Gerry Mulligan Live At The Berlin Philharmonie 1970
Ornette Coleman Live In Paris 1971
Miles Davis Bitches Brew Live 1969 1970
Miles Davis Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Miles Davis Live-Evil 1970
Miles Davis The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
Miles Davis Dark Magus Live At Carnegie Hall 1974
Miles Davis Agharta 1975
Miles Davis Pangaea 1975
Paul Desmond & The Modern Jazz Quartet 1971
Paul Desmond Like Someone in Love 1975
Paul Desmond Audrey 1975
Duke Ellington Live At The Whitney 1972
Bill Evans Paris Concert Edition One 1979
Bill Evans Paris Concert Edition Two 1979
Bill Evans Homecoming 1979
Stan Getz Quartet Live at Montreux 1972
Dizzy Gillespie The Giant 1973
Keith Jarrett The Koln Concert 1975
Mahavishnu Orchestra Between Nothingness & Eternity 1973
Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert 1972
Modern Jazz Quartet Complete Last Concert 1974
Lee Morgan Live At The Lighthouse 1970
Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond Dave Brubeck Complete 1972 Berlin Concert
Sarah Vaughan Live At The 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival
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The Best Live Jazz Albums Of All Time
I don’t have a readers poll to find the best live albums of the decade but there is a poll to find the all time best live jazz albums:
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Live Album Polls For The Great Jazz Artists
I have polls for the following artists: – Louis Armstrong – Count Basie – John Coltrane – Miles Davis – Eric Dolphy – Duke Ellington – Dizzy Gillespie – Billie Holiday – Charles Mingus – Thelonious Monk – Charlie Parker – Lester Young –
Live At The Berlin Philharmonie is a live album by the Dave Brubeck Trio and Gerry Mulligan.
It was recorded at Philharmonic Hall in Berlin in November 1970.
Playing on the album are:
Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone,
Dave Brubeck – piano,
Jack Six – bass,
Alan Dawson – drums.
Paul Desmond & The Modern Jazz Quartet is a live album. It was originally released as The Only Recorded Performance of Paul Desmond With the Modern Jazz Quartet in 1981.
It was recorded at the Town Hall in New York City on Christmas Day in 1971.
Playing on the album are:
Paul Desmond – alto saxophone,
Milt Jackson – vibraphone,
John Lewis – piano,
Percy Heath – bass,
Connie Kay – drums.
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The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 is a six CDs, live album by Miles Davis.
It was recorded in Washington, DC in December 1970. This concerts had previously provided material for Live-Evil.
Playing on the album are:
Miles Davis – trumpet
Gary Bartz – saxophone
John McLaughlin – guitar
Keith Jarrett – keyboards
Michael Henderson – bass
Jack DeJohnette – drums
Airto Moreira – percussion
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Live At The Whitney is a live album by the Duke Ellington Trio.
It was recorded at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City on April 10, 1972.
Playing with Duke Ellington and his piano were Joe Benjamin on bass and Rufus Jones on drums.
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Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert is a live album with Mingus leading a big band.
It was recorded at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on February 4, 1972.
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Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group Live was the first live album released by Jeff Beck apart from Beck Bogert & Appice Live In Japan.
It was recorded on the US tour in the Summer and Fall of 1976.
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The Complete Last Concert is a live album by The Modern Jazz Quartet.
It was recorded at the Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City on November 25, 1974.
It was originally released as The Last Concert as a double vinyl album on the Atlantic label in 1975 with a follow-up album called More From The Last Concert in 1977.
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Homecoming is a live album by Bill Evans.
It was recorded at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana on November 6, 1979.
Playing on the album are:
Bill Evans – piano
Marc Johnson – bass
Joe LaBarbera – drums
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Agharta is a live album by Miles Davis.
It was recorded at the Osaka Festival Hall in Osaka, Japan on February 1, 1975.
Playing on the album are:
Miles Davis – Trumpet, Organ
Sonny Fortune – Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute
Pete Cosey – Guitar, Synth, Percussion
Reggie Lucas – Guitar
Michael Henderson – Bass
Al Foster – Drums
Mtume – Percussion
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The Paris Concert Edition Two is a live album by Bill Evans. As the name suggests, there is also an Edition One.
It was recorded at l’Espace Cardin in Paris, France on November 26, 1979.
Playing on the album are:
