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1910 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1910. Events * Violinist, pianist, composer and conductor James Reese Europe founds the Clef Club, an association for Black musicians based in New York. Standards Births ; January * 2 – Minoru Matsuya, Japanese pianist (died 1995). * 14 – Jimmy Crawford, American drummer (died 1980). * 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian-born, Romani French jazz guitarist and composer (died 1953). * 27 – Charlie Holmes, American alto jazz saxophonist of the swing era (died 1985). ; February * 21 – Al Sears, American tenor saxophonist and bandleader (died 1990). ; March * 6 – Arthur Österwall, Swedish band leader, composer, vocalist, and upright bassist (died 1990). ; April * 1 — Harry Carney, American saxophonist (died 1974). * 16 – Boyce Brown, American dixieland alto saxophonist (died 1959). * 28 – Everett Barksdale, American guitarist (died 1986). ; May * 8 — Mary Lou Williams, African-American pianist, comp ... [...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] |
Harry Carney
Harry Howell Carney (April 1, 1910 – October 8, 1974) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinettist who spent over four decades as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He played a variety of instruments but primarily used the baritone saxophone, being a critical influence on the instrument in jazz. Early life Carney was born on April 1, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston, he grew up close to future bandmate Johnny Hodges. Carney began by playing the piano at age seven, moved to the clarinet at 14, and added the alto saxophone a year later. He first played professionally in clubs in Boston. Early influences on Carney's playing included Buster Bailey, Sidney Bechet, and Don Murray. Carney also reported that, for his baritone saxophone playing, he "tried to make the upper register sound like Coleman Hawkins and the lower register like Adrian Rollini". Later life and career After playing a variety of gigs in New York City at the age of 17, Carney was invited to join the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pha Terrell
Elmer "Pha" Terrell (May 25, 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri - October 14, 1945 in Los Angeles) was an American jazz singer. Terrell was working in nightclubs locally in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City in the early 1930s as a singer, dancer, and emcee when he was discovered by Andy Kirk (musician), Andy Kirk, who hired him to be the vocalist for his group the Twelve Clouds of Joy. Terrell sang with Kirk for eight years, from 1933 to 1941, and recorded with him extensively for Decca Records, singing hits such as 1936's "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" and 1938's "I Won't Tell a Soul (I Love You)". After 1941 Terrell moved to Indianapolis to play with Clarence Love's territory band, then moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a soloist. Terrell died of kidney failure in 1945. References *[no author given]. "Pha Terrell". In Barry Kernfeld, Kernfeld, Barry. ''The New Grove, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition''. Oxford, 2001. *Eugene Chadbourne, Chadbourne, EugenePha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2004. Events January * 22 – The 7th Polarjazz started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (January 22 – 25). * 30 – The 23rd annual Djangofestival started on Cosmopolite in Oslo, Norway (January 30 – 31). February March April * 2 ** The 31st Vossajazz started at Voss, Norway (April 2 – 4). ** Magne Thormodsæter was awarded Vossajazzprisen 2004. * 3 – Svein Folkvord performs the commissioned work ''Across'' for Vossajazz 2004. May * 19 – The 32nd Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 19 – 29). * 28 – The 33rd Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 28 – 31). June * 28 – The 16th Jazz Fest Wien started in Vienna, Austria (June 28 – July 14). * 30 ** The 40th Kongsberg Jazzfestival started in Kongsberg, Norway (June 30 – July 3). ** The 25th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (June 30 - July 11). July * 2 ** The 26th Copenhagen Jazz Festival start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction. Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists", Shaw led one of the United States' most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s. Though he had numerous hit records, he was perhaps best known for his 1938 recording of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine." Before the release of "Beguine," Shaw and his fledgling band had languished in relative obscurity for over two years and, after its release, he became a major pop artist within short order. The record eventually became one of the era's defining recordings. Musically restless, Shaw was also an early proponent of what became known much later as Third Stream music, which blended elements of classical and jazz forms and traditions. His music influenced other musicians, such as Monty Norman in England, with the vamp of the James Bond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1945. Events * Miles Davis has graduated from high school. He goes to New York and becomes a musician. He enrolls in Juilliard at his parents' request. * John Coltrane was drafted and plays clarinet with the Navy Band in Hawaii. Standards Album releases *Mary Lou Williams: ''Zodiac Suite'' (1945) *John Serry Sr.: '' Leone Jump'' for Sonora Records (catalogue # 3001 B) with the Biviano Accordion & Rhythm Sextette Deaths ; March * 10 – Josef Taussig, Czech trombonist and journalist (born 1914). ; April * 25 – Teddy Weatherford, American pianist, an accomplished stride pianist (born 1903). ; August * 5 – Nat Jaffe, American pianist (born 1918). ; October * 7 – Erhard Bauschke, German reedist and bandleader (born 1912). * 14 – Pha Terrell, American singer (born 1910). ; December * 8 – Richard M. Jones, American pianist, composer, band leader, and record producer (born 1892). * 16 – Jack Jenney, Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Jenney
Truman Eliot "Jack" Jenney (May 12, 1910 – December 16, 1945) was an American jazz trombonist. Early life Born in Mason City, Iowa, Jenney first played trumpet, then switched to trombone. His father was a musician and music teacher. Jenney performed in his father's band from age 11, but his professional work began with Austin Wylie in 1928. Career During his career, Jenney worked with Isham Jones, Red Norvo, Artie Shaw, Mal Hallett, and Waring's Pennsylvanians. He appeared in the film ''Syncopation''.AllMusicbiography He has been called "the greatest trombonist of the Big Band era" and won the ''DownBeat'' Reader's Poll for trombone in 1940. He led his own band for a year in 1938 and 1939, but it was a financial failure. He was drafted into the United States Navy in 1943, but also played as a studio musician the following year. Death He died on December 16, 1945, in Los Angeles, from complications following an appendectomy An appendectomy, also termed appendicectom ... [...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] |
Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie. Early years The second of eleven children, Williams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A musical prodigy, at the age of two, she was able to pick out simple tunes and by the age of three, she was taught piano by her mother. Mary Lou Williams played piano out of necessity at a very young age; her white neighbors were throwing bricks into her house until Williams began playing the piano in their homes. At the age of six, she supported her ten half-brothers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1986. Events March * 21 – The 13th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 21 – 23). May * 16 – 15th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 16 – 19). * 21 – 14th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 21 – June 4). June * 27 – The 7th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (June 27 – July 6). July * 3 – The 20th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 43 – 19). * 11 – The 11th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands (July 11 – 13). August * 15 – The 3rd Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 15 – 17). September * 19 – The 29th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 19 – 21). Album releases *16–17: ''16–17'' *Tim Berne: ''Fulton Street Maul'' * Ran Blake: '' Short Life of Barbara Monk'' *Larry Carlton: '' Alone / But Never Alone'' *Larry Carlton: ''Disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everett Barksdale
Everett Barksdale (April 28, 1910 – January 29, 1986) was an American jazz guitarist and session musician. He played bass and banjo before settling on guitar. In the 1930s, Barksdale moved to Chicago, where he was in Erskine Tate's band. He recorded for the first time with violinist Eddie South in 1931, and he remained with South until 1939. He moved to New York City and became a member of the Benny Carter big band. Around the same time, he recorded with Sidney Bechet. During the 1940s, he worked for CBS as a session musician. As a sideman, Barksdale played guitar in many genres. He worked with vocalists Dean Barlow, Maxine Sullivan, the Blenders, and the Clovers. He played on the hit "Love Is Strange" by Mickey & Sylvia, and was music director for the Ink Spots. Beginning in 1949, he worked with pianist Art Tatum until Tatum died in 1956. During the 1950s and 1960s, he was a member of the house band at ABC. He played on recordings by Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr., Dinah Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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