1978 in jazz

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1978 in jazz
1978 in jazz
	Pharoah Sanders, Reggie Workman, and unidentified drummer, c. 1978
Decade	1970s in jazz
Music	1978 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1977 in jazz – 1979 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1978.