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1905 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1905. Events * Sidney Bechet becomes the protege of clarinetist George Baquet and sits in with the band of trumpeter Freddie Keppard at the age of eight . Standards Births ; January * 13 – Percy Humphrey, American trumpeter and bandleader (died 1995). ; February * 6 – Jan Werich, Czech singer, actor, playwright, and writer (died 1980). * 10 – Chick Webb, American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader (died 1939). * 11 – Lebert Lombardo, Canadian trumpeter and singer (died 1993). * 22 – Arthur Whetsel, American trumpeter (died 1940). ; March * 3 – Fernand Coppieters, Belgian pianist and organist (died 1981). * 12 – Chelsea Quealey, American trumpeter (died 1950). ; April * 15 – Bernard Addison, American guitarist (died 1990). * 19 – Tommy Benford, American drummer (died 1994). ; May * 7 – Georgie Stoll, American musical director, conductor, composer, and violinist (died 1985). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1981. Events April * 10 – The 8th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 10 – 12). May * 20 – 9th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 20 – June 3). June * 2 – The 2nd Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (July 2 – 10). * 5 – 10th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 5 – 8). July * 3 – The 15th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 3 – 19). * 10 – The 6th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands (July 10 – 12). September * 18 – The 24th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 18 – 20). Album releases *Stanley Clarke and George Duke: '' The Clarke/Duke Project'' *Al Jarreau: '' Breakin' Away'' *Lee Ritenour: ''Rit'' *Ronald Shannon Jackson: ''Street Priest'' *Jan Garbarek: ''Paths, Prints'' *Anthony Davis: ''Episteme'' *Joe McPhee: ''Topology'' *Paul Motian: ''Psalm'' *Rov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Kirkpatrick
Don Kirkpatrick (June 17, 1905 – May 13, 1956) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Kirkpatrick worked intermittently with Chick Webb between 1927-1937 and with Don Redman from 1933-1937; it is for these associations that he is best known. Aside from this, he worked with Harry White, Elmer Snowden, Zutty Singleton, and Mezz Mezzrow, and worked as a freelance arranger after his time with Webb and Redman. Kirkpatrick also arranged for the bands of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Cootie Williams. After the swing era, Kirkpatrick played with Bunk Johnson (1947), Sidney Bechet (1951), Wilbur De Paris (1952–55), and Doc Cheatham (1955). He never led his own recording session. In 1956 he died at age 50, of complications from pneumonia. References ;Footnotes ;General references *Scott Yanow, Don Kirkpatrickat AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music datab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1997. Events March * 21 – The 24th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 21 – 23). May * 16 – The 26th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 16 – 19). * 21 – The 25th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 21 – 31). June * 26 – The 18th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (June 26 – July 6). July * 2 – The 7th Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria (July 2 – 13). * 4 – The 31st Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 4 – 19). * 11 ** The 22nd North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands (July 11 – 13). ** The 50th Nice Jazz Festival started in France (July 11 – 20). * 12 – The 32nd Pori Jazz Festival started in Finland (July 12 – 20). * 15 – The 38th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (July 15 – 20). August * 8 – The 14th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (August 8 – 10). Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc Cheatham
Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham (June 13, 1905 – June 2, 1997), was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. He is also the Grandfather of musician Theo Croker. Early life Doc Cheatham was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, of African, Cherokee and Choctaw heritage. He noted there was no jazz music there in his youth; like many in the United States he was introduced to the style by early recordings and touring groups at the end of the 1910s. He abandoned his family's plans for him to be a pharmacist (although retaining the medically inspired nickname "Doc") to play music, initially playing soprano and tenor saxophone in addition to trumpet, in Nashville's African American Vaudeville theater. Cheatham later toured in band accompanying blues singers on the Theater Owners Booking Association circuit. His early jazz influences included Henry Busse and Johnny Dunn, but when he moved to Chicago in 1924, he heard King Oliver. Oliver's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1957. Events June * 25 – Ella Fitzgerald started recording the album '' The Irving Berlin Songbook'' (June 25 – October 17). ** She won at the 1st Grammy Awards in the category Best Jazz Performance, Individual for this album. July * 4 – The 5th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 4 – 7). Unknown dates *Carla Bley (born Borg in 1936) was married to Paul Bley. Album releases *Stan Kenton: ''Kenton with Voices'' *Charles Mingus: ''Tijuana Moods'' *Art Blakey: '' Orgy In Rhythm'' *Yusef Lateef: '' Jazz Mood'' *John Coltrane: '' Blue Train'' *John Lewis: ''The John Lewis Piano'' *Milt Jackson: '' Soul Brothers'' *Miles Davis: '' Miles Ahead'' *Kenny Burrell: '' All Day Long'' *Ben Webster: '' Soulville'' *Sonny Rollins: '' Way Out West'' *Ben Webster: '' Tenor Giants'' *Art Pepper: '' Meets the Rhythm Section'' *Art Taylor: ''Taylor's Wailers'' *Max Roach: '' Jazz in ¾ Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard McPartland
Dick McPartland (May 18, 1905 – November 30, 1957) was a jazz guitarist during the 1920s and the older brother of Jimmy McPartland. He was part of the Austin High School Gang of musicians in Chicago. McPartland played banjo and guitar. He replaced Eddie Lang in the Red McKenzie band. Near the end of the 1920s, he recorded with Irving Mills and Jack Teagarden Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964) was an American jazz trombonist and singer. According to critic Scott Yannow of Allmusic, Teagarden was the preeminent American jazz trombone player before the bebop era of the 19 ... and in the 1930s with his brother Jimmy. After a heart attack in the 1930s, he retired from music. References 1905 births 1957 deaths American jazz guitarists 20th-century American guitarists {{Chicago-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 In Jazz
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. February * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Stoll
Georgie Stoll (born George Martin Stoll; May 7, 1905 – January 18, 1985) was a musical director, conductor, Academy Award-winning composer, and jazz violinist, associated with the Golden Age of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals and performers from the 1940s to 1960s. He was also later credited as George E. Stoll (sometimes without the middle initial). Violin prodigy Stoll was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and made his musical debut as a boy violin prodigy, gaining nationwide fame. He toured North America as a jazz violinist on the Fanchon and Marco Vaudeville circuit and was part of the Jazzmania Quintet, appearing with Edythe Flynn in an early 1927 sound short. In San Diego, he became an orchestra and trio leader (his Rhythm Aces) and started to feature with Jack Oakie on radio programs, such as '' Camel Cigarette'' and NBC's ''Shell Oil Program''. In 1934, Bing Crosby selected Stoll as his musical director for the second series of the CBS ''Woodbury'' radio programs Bing Cros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1994. Events March * 25 – The 21st Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 25 – 27). May * 20 – The 23rd Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 20 – 23). * 26 – The 22nd Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 26 – June 5). July * 1 ** The 17th Copenhagen Jazz Festival started in Copenhagen, Denmark (July 1–10). ** The 4th Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria (July 1–15). ** The 15th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (July 1–16). ** The 28th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 1–16). * 8 – The 19th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 8–10). * 16 – The 29th Pori Jazz started in Pori, Finland (July 16–24). * 18 – The 35th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (July 18–23). August * 12 – The 11th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (August 12–14). September * 16 – The 37th Monterey Jaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Benford
Thomas Benford (April 19, 1905 – March 24, 1994) was an American jazz drummer. Biography Tommy Benford was born in Charleston, West Virginia. He and his older brother, tuba player Bill Benford, were both orphans who studied music at the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina. He started playing in an orphanage band and continued with the drums for the next 60 years. He went on tour with the school band, traveling with them to England in 1914. In 1920, he was working with the Green River Minstrel Show. Benford recorded with Jelly Roll Morton in 1928 and 1930. He also played with Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and Eddie South. From 1932 till 1941 Benford lived in Europe, where in 1937 he participated in one of the most memorable recording sessions ever in Paris, with Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. Benford died on March 24, 1994, at Mount Vernon Hospital in Mount Vernon Mount Vernon is an American landmark and former pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1990. Events April * 6 – The 17th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 6 – 8). May * 23 – The 18th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 23 – June 3). June * 1 – The 19th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 1 – 4). July * 7 – 24th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Switzerland (July 7 – 22). * 12 – The 15th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 12 – 15). August * 17 – The 7th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 17 – 19). September * 21 – The 33rd Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 21 – 23). Unknown date * Eliane Elias and Randy Brecker was divorced. Album releases *Ben Sidran: '' Cool Paradise'' *Bill Frisell: ''Is That You?'' *Bobby Previte: ''Empty Suits'' *Butch Morris: ''Dust To Dust'' *Charlie Haden: ''Dream Keeper'' *Danny Gottlieb: ''Brooklyn Blues'' *David Liebman: ''The Tree'' *David Ware: ''Great Bli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
