Yesterday marked 36 years of Jazz basketball in Utah:
On this date in 1979: New Orleans Jazz move to Salt Lake City, thus becoming the @utahjazz http://t.co/L15Jd5O34l pic.twitter.com/39ZVNzCosJ
— NBA.com (@NBAcom) June 8, 2015
Click that link in the tweet, and you'll be taken to a page on the official Utah Jazz website entitled "History of the Jazz Name," which isn't long on detail but does feature this tidbit:
After much deliberation, team officials announced that the new team name would be the New Orleans Jazz on June 7, 1974.