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1909 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1909. Events *Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins started playing the piano at the age of five years. Standards Births ; January * 13 ** Danny Barker, American guitarist, banjoist, vocalist, and author (died 1994). ** Ed Burke, American violinist and trombonist (died 1988). * 15 – Gene Krupa, American jazz and big band drummer, band leader, actor, and composer (died 1973). * 22 – Mouse Randolph, American trumpeter (died 1997). * 24 – Tiny Winters, English bassist and vocalist (died 1996). ; February * 4 – Artie Bernstein, American upright bassist (died 1964). * 20 – Oscar Alemán, Argentine guitarist, singer, and dancer (died 1980). ; March * 2 – Narvin Kimball, American musician (died 2006). * 3 – Booker Pittman, American clarinetist (died 1969). * 9 – Herschel Evans, American tenor saxophonist (died 1939). * 21 – Miff Görling, Swedish bandleader, trombonist, arranger, and composer (died 1988). ... [...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] |
1980 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1980. Events March * 28 – The 7th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 28 – 30). ** Featured artists on Vossajazz was Cross Section, E`Olen, Elton Dean Quartet with Kenny Wheeler, Hariprasad Chaurasia Ensemble, Johnny Griffin Quartet, Kristian Bergheim / Andreas Skjold Sextet with Finn Otto Hansen, Kristiansen / Jørgensen Quintet, McCoy Tyner Sextett, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen / Rune Gustafsson Duo, Radka Toneff Quintet, and Stubø / Bjørklund Quartet. May * 21 – 8th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 21 – June 4). * 23 – 9th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 23 – 26). June *4 - The Bill Evans Trio starts a four-day stint at the Village Vanguard. It is released after his death in a 6-CD box set on '' Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings'' in 1996. July * 2 – The very first Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippo Starnazza
Pippo Starnazza (16 April 1909 – 16 July 1975) was an Italian jazz singer and actor. Born Luigi Redaelli in Milan, he started his career in the 1920s, playing the drums in the De Carli Orchestra at the Orfeo music hall in Milan. After having been part of several other orchestras and jazz bands, in the early 1930s Redaelli started his solo career as a singer, specializing in creating humorous covers of popular American songs in Milanese dialect Milanese (endonym in traditional orthography , ') is the central variety of the Western dialect of the Lombard language spoken in Milan, the rest of its metropolitan city, and the northernmost part of the province of Pavia. Milanese, due to t .... In 1939, he adopted his stage name and formed the Quintetto del Delirio (Delirium Quintet), with whom he sang cover songs where the English lyrics were replaced by an onomatopoeic, gibberish language. Beginning the 1960s, he appeared in many films in supporting and character roles. He died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 In Jazz
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilbert Baranco
Wilbert Baranco (15 April 1909 – October 1983) was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. Baranco played with Curtis Mosby in the early 1930s and then put together his own bands in the 1930s and 1940s, including several military bands during World War II. He recorded with Ernie Andrews in Los Angeles in 1945, and led a trio which included Charles Mingus around that time as well. He served as the accompanist for Dinah Washington when she sang with the Lucky Thompson All-Stars. Some time after the war he put together an ensemble known as Wilbert Baranco & His Rhythm Bombardiers, composed of former servicemen; this group recorded with, among others, Vic Dickenson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Willie "The Lion" Smith. He also recorded in the 1940s with Jackie Kelson and Snooky Young. He became a music teacher after the 1940s. He is also the father of Lafayette Morehouse founder Victor Baranco. Discography * ''Groovin High'' with Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Mundy (Hep, 1977) * Dinah Washington, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Webster
Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Career Early life and career A native of Kansas City, Missouri, he studied violin, learned how to play blues on the piano from Pete Johnson, and received saxophone lessons from Budd Johnson. He played with Lester Young in the Young Family Band. He recorded with Blanche Calloway and became a member of the Bennie Moten Orchestra with Count Basie, Hot Lips Page, and Walter Page. For the rest of the 1930s, he played in bands led by Willie Bryant, Benny Carter, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Andy Kirk (musician), Andy Kirk, and Teddy Wilson. With Ellington Webster was a soloist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1940, appearing on "Cotton Tail". He considered Johnny Hodges, an alto saxophonist in the Ellington orchestra, a major influence on his playing. Gunther Schuller wrote in 1989 that Hodges influence pushed him away from his original inspiration, Coleman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miff Görling
Uno "Miff" Görling (March 21, 1909, Stockholm – February 24, 1988, Stockholm) was a Swedish jazz bandleader, trombonist, arranger, and composer. His brother was Zilas Görling. Görling, who took his nickname from trombonist Miff Mole, got his start late in the 1920s with Frank Vernon's orchestra, where he played until 1932. He then worked with Arne Hülphers, Gösta Jonsson, Seymour Österwall, and Gösta Säfbom before organizing his own ensemble in 1938. He led bands into the 1950s, and also did arrangement and composition work for other jazz groups as well as for popular Swedish musicians.Erik Kjellberg, "Miff Görling". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians. Education In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at U .... References Swedish jazz tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1939. Events *The earliest formal books on jazz begin to appear, including Wilder Hobson's ''American Jazz Music'' and Frederick Ramsey and Charles Edward Smith's ''Jazzmen''. *Fletcher Henderson becomes the first black musician who is a regular member of a white big band when he joins Benny Goodman, although he does not became a featured artist in the band. *Charlie Christian makes some revolutionary electric guitar records which allow to the guitar to play lead with the trumpet and the saxophone for the first time. *The Duke Ellington Band experiences major success. Django Reinhardt records "Montmartre", "Solid Old Man", " Low Cotton" and "Finesse" with the band. Standards Deaths ; February * 9 – Herschel Evans, tenor saxophonist (born 1909). ; May * 19 – Louis Douglas, American dancer, choreographer, and music businessman (born 1889). ; June * 4 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (born 1900). * 16 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herschel Evans
Herschel "Tex" Evans (9 March 1909 – 9 February 1939) was an American tenor saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. He also worked with Lionel Hampton and Buck Clayton. He is also known for starting his cousin Joe McQueen's interest in the saxophone. Joe McQueen, living until 2019 at age 100, may well have been the last surviving person to have known Herschel during his lifetime. Life and career Evans was born in Denton, Texas, but spent some of his childhood in Kansas City, Kansas, where his cousin Eddie Durham was a trombonist and guitarist. Durham persuaded him to switch from alto to tenor saxophone, the instrument that ultimately established Evans's reputation. After perfecting his craft in the jam sessions held in the jazz district between Twelfth and Eighteenth streets in Kansas City, Evans returned to Texas in the 1920s and joined the Troy Floyd orchestra in San Antonio in 1929. He stayed with this territory band until it dispersed in 1932. Evans perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1969. Events The New England Conservatory becomes the first traditional music conservatory to offer a jazz studies course. June * 18 ** The 3rd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 18 – 22). July * 3 – The 16th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 3 – 6). ** The 1st day featured Sun Ra and Space Arkestra, Bill Evans / Jeremy Steig, and George Benson ** The 2nd day featured Jeff Beck Group, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull (Recorded) ** The 3rd day featured Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, John Mayall, and Miles Davis Quintet (Recorded) ** The 4th day featured Sly & The Family Stone, O.C. Smith, and Dave Brubeck. August * 18 – The 9th National Jazz and Blues Festival started in Plumpton, East Sussex, England (August 8 – 10). * 19 – Trumpeter Miles Davis uses a wah-wah pedal on '' Bitches Brew'' (August 19 – 21). September * 19 – The 12th M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booker Pittman
Booker Pittman or Pitman (3 March 1909, Fairmount Heights, Maryland, USA – 19 October 1969, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) was a jazz clarinetist who played with Louis Armstrong and Count Basie in the US and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. He also played alto and soprano saxophones. Musical career In 1930, Pittman was with Jap Allen's Cotton Club Orchestra, which featured Joe Keyes, Ben Webster, Jim "Big Daddy" Walker, Clyde Hart, Slim Moore, Raymond Howell, Eddie "Orange" White, Al Denny, O.C. Wynne, and Durwood "Dee" Stewart. University of Missouri-Kansas City. Retrieved 11 December 2022. He later joined Bennie Moten's band. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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