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1906 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1906. Events * Duke Ellington starts playing the piano at the age of seven. Standards Births ; January * 4 – Frankie Newton, American trumpeter (died 1954). * 6 – Bobby Stark, American trumpeter (died 1945). ; March * 3 – Barney Bigard, American clarinetist (died 1980). * 13 – Frank Teschemacher, American clarinetist and alt saxophonist (died 1932). * 27 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet and saxophones (died 1969). ; April * 3 ** Billy Taylor, American upright bassist (died 1986). ** Fats Pichon, American pianist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter (died 1967). * 10 ** Fud Livingston, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer (died 1957). ** Kai Ewans, Danish reedist (died 1988). * 18 – Little Brother Montgomery, American pianist and singer (died 1985). * 22 – Alex Hill, American pianist (died 1937). * 29 – Ward Pinkett, American trumpeter (died 1937). * 30 – Hayes Pillars ... [...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] |
1967 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1967. Events June * 12 – The 2nd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 12 – 19). * 30 – The 14th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (June 30 – July 3). Unknown date * Nina Simone wins female Jazz singer of the year. * Carla Bley was married to Michael Mantler. Album releases *Bill Evans: ''Further Conversations with Myself'' *Pharoah Sanders: ''Tauhid'' *Stan Getz: ''Sweet Rain'' *Sun Ra: ''Atlantis'' *Gary Burton: ''A Genuine Tong Funeral'' * Sam Rivers: ''Dimensions and Extensions'' *Roscoe Mitchell: '' Old Quartet'' *Bill Dixon: ''Intents and Purposes'' * George Russell: '' Othello Ballet Suite'' *Muhal Richard Abrams: ''Levels and Degrees of Light'' *Archie Shepp: '' The Magic of Ju-Ju'' *Jackie McLean: ''New and Old Gospel'' *Roland Kirk: '' The Inflated Tear'' * Frank Wright: ''Your Prayer'' *Spontaneous Music Ensemble: ''Withdrawal'' *Peter Brötzmann T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Gray
Glenn Gray Knoblauch (June 7, 1900 – August 23, 1963), known professionally as Glen Gray, was an American jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.''The Mississippi Rag'', "Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra," George A. Borgman, October 2006, page 1 Early years Gray was born to Lurdie P. and Agnes (Gray) Knoblauch in Roanoke, Illinois, United States. His father was a saloon keeper and railroad worker who died when Glen was two years of age. He had an older sister. His widowed mother married George H. DeWilde, a coal miner, and moved her family to Roanoke. Gray graduated from Roanoke High School, in 1917 where he played basketball and acquired his nickname, "Spike". Career Gray attended the American Conservatory of Music in 1921 but left during his first year to go to Peoria, Illinois, to play with George Haschert's orchestra. From 1924 to 1929, he played with several orchestras in Detroit, Michigan. Gray served as leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Inge
Edward Inge (May 7, 1906 – October 8, 1988) was an American jazz arranger and reedist. Inge was raised in Kansas City and played clarinet from age 12. He played with George Reynolds's Orchestra when he was 18, then worked with Dewey Jackson, Art Sims & His Creole Roof Orchestra, and Oscar Young in the 1920s. In 1930, he became a member of McKinney's Cotton Pickers, then was offered a spot in Don Redman's band in 1931, where he played until 1939. From there he replaced Don Byas in Andy Kirk's band, remaining with Kirk until 1943. After the early 1940s Inge became more in demand as an arranger, writing charts for Louis Armstrong, Redman, and Jimmie Lunceford among many others over the course of his career. He led his own band in Cleveland in the middle of the 1940s, then worked out of Buffalo, New York in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s he played with Cecil Johnson, and in the 1970s with C.Q. Price. Inge's recording credits include work with The Mills Brothers, Cab Callowa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1992. Events April * 10 – The 19th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 10 – 12). May * 20 – The 20th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 20 – 31). June * 5 – The 21st Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 5 – 8). July * 2 – 26th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Switzerland (July 2 – 18). * 10 – The 17th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 10 – 12). August * 13 – The 9th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 13 – 15). September * 18 – The 35th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 18 – 20). Album releases *Jane Ira Bloom: ''Art and Aviation'' *Maria Schneider: ''Evanescence'' *Geri Allen: ''Maroons'' *Wynton Marsalis: ''Citi Movement'' *Joe Lovano: ''Universal Language'' *Terence Blanchard: ''The Malcolm X Jazz Suite'' *Sergey Kuryokhin: ''Some Combination of Fingers and Passion'' *Medeski Martin & Wood: '' Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayes Pillars
Hayes Pillars (April 30, 1906, North Little Rock, Arkansas - August 11, 1992, Richmond Heights, Missouri) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader. Pillar began playing as a teenager, and played locally in Little Rock and Jackson, Tennessee before joining the territory band of Alphonso Trent in 1927-28. On January 6, 1934 Pillars, along with his brother Charles Pillars, and James Jeter, formed the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra, to work at a club called The Furnace. The ensemble which featured a large number of noted jazz sidemen over the course of its existence, was originally "formed out of the remnants of the great Alphonso Trent Orchestra." On July 4, 1934, The Jeter-Pillars Orchestra came to St.Louis at the Club Plantation. Following his time in Jeter-Pillars, Pillars became a mainstay of the St. Louis, Missouri jazz scene, working there from the 1950s into the 1980s. He would frequently play private parties and in area country clubs. He retired in the early 1980s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward Pinkett
William Ward Pinkett, Jr. (April 29, 1906 – March 15, 1937) was an American jazz trumpeter and scat vocalist during the Harlem Renaissance. A respected sideman recognized as a "hot" trumpet and with a versatile ear, he played and recorded with some of the greatest jazzmen of the era, including King Oliver, Jimmy Johnson, Chick Webb and Jelly Roll Morton. His career was cut short by alcoholism. Early life Born into a musical family, Pinkett was the eldest of four children born to William Ward Pinckett and Mary Louise ''nee'' Carr of Newport News, Virginia. His father, a prosperous tailor and land owner, was an amateur cornet player who formed the Newport News Brass Band around 1900, playing for social clubs and funerals in the area. His mother played piano, often accompanying his father in the home, and his sister, Loretta Gillis (1913-1998), played saxophone in several local jazz bands. Encouraged by his father, he started learning cornet at an early age and began playing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1937. Events * Charlie Parker starts collaboration with pianist Jay McShann, and plays in his band in Kansas City from time to time until 1941. Standards Deaths ; February * 1– Alex Hill (musician), Alex Hill American pianist (born 1906). ; March * 15– Ward Pinkett, American jazz trumpeter (born 1906). ; July * 11– George Gershwin, American composer and pianist (born 1898). ; August * 20– Johnny Dunn, American trumpeter and vaudeville performer (born 1897). ; September * 26– Bessie Smith, American blues singer, nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" (car accident in Clarksdale, Mississippi) (born 1894). Births ; January * 1 – Neville Dickie, English pianist. * 6 – Paolo Conte, Italian singer, pianist, composer, and lawyer. * 9 – Malcolm Cecil, British bassist (died 2021 in jazz, 2021). * 17 – Ted Dunbar, American guitarist, composer, and educator (died 1998 in jazz, 1998). * 19 – Phil Wilso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Hill (musician)
Alex Hill (April 22, 1906 – February 1937) was an American jazz pianist. Hill was a child prodigy on piano, which he learned from his mother. While studying at Shorter College he met Alphonse Trent, and began arranging material for him. He graduated in 1922 and played in various territory bands, including Terrence Holder's. From 1924 to 1926 he led his own ensemble; later in 1926 he played with Speed Webb, and in 1927 he spent time with Mutt Carey's Jeffersonians and Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders. Late in 1927 he relocated to Chicago, and held a job as an arranger for the Melrose Music Publishing Company, while simultaneously arranging for the Carroll Dickerson Orchestra. He played with Jimmy Wade in 1928, Jimmie Noone in 1929, and Sammy Stewart in 1930. In 1929, Hill plus the guitar players Dan Roberts and Alex Robinson, recorded for Paramount Records billed as the Hokum Boys. Later that year, Ikey Robinson recorded for OKeh Records, both with Jimmy Blythe and late ... [...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] |
Little Brother Montgomery
Eurreal Wilford "Little Brother" Montgomery (April 18, 1906 – September 6, 1985) was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer. Largely self-taught, Montgomery was an important blues pianist with an original style. He was also versatile, working in jazz bands, including larger ensembles that used written arrangements. He did not read music but learned band routines by ear. Career Montgomery was born in Kentwood, Louisiana, United States, a sawmill town near the Mississippi border, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, where he spent much of his childhood. Both his parents were of African-American and Creek Indian ancestry. As a child he looked like his father, Harper Montgomery, and was called Little Brother Harper. The name evolved into Little Brother Montgomery, and the nickname stuck. He started playing piano at the age of four, and by age 11 he left home for four years and played at barrelhouses in Louisiana. His main musical influence was Jelly R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1988. Events March * 25 – The 15th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 25 – 27). April * 6 – Jazz guitarist Larry Carlton is shot in a random gun shooting outside his Los Angeles studios. May * 20 – The 17th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 20 – 23). * 25 – The 16th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 25 – June 8). June * 30 – The 22nd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 30 – July 16). July * 1 – The 9th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (July 1 – 10). * 8 – The 13th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands (July 8 – 10). August * 19 – The 5th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 19 – 21). September * 16 – The 31st Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 16 – 18). Album releases *Bill Frisell: ''Before We Were Born'' *Henry Threadgill: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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