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1913 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1913. Events * The word "jazz" first appears in print. * James Reese Europe records ragtime arrangements in New York with the first black ensemble to be recorded. Standards Births ; January * 17 – Vido Musso, Italian-American tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader (died 1982). * 27 – Milton Adolphus, American pianist and composer (died 1998). ; February * 5 – Rozelle Claxton, American pianist (died 1995). * 22 – Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinetist (died 2001). ; March * 1 – Ralph Ellison, American novelist and literary critic (died 1994). * 31 – Etta Baker, American guitarist and singer (died 2006). ; April * 4 ** Gene Ramey, American upright bassist (died 1984). ** Muddy Waters, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (died 1983). * 25 – Earl Bostic, American alto saxophonist (died 1965). * 29 – Jack Bentley, English trombonist, journalist, and scriptwriter (died 1994 ... [...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] |
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude". Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson."His thick heavy voice, the dark colouration of his tone, and his firm, almost solid, personality were all clearly derived from House," wrote the music historian Peter Guralnick in ''Feel Like Going Home'', "but the embellishments, which he added, the imaginative slide technique and more agile rhythms, were closer to Johnson." He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Humes
Helen Humes (June 23, 1913 – September 9, 1981) was an American singer. Humes was a teenage blues singer, a vocalist with Count Basie's band, a saucy R&B diva, and a mature interpreter of the classic popular song. Early life She was born on June 23, 1913, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Emma Johnson and John Henry Humes. She grew up as an only child. Her mother was a schoolteacher, and her father was the first black attorney in her home town. In an interview, Humes recalled her parents singing to each other around the house and in a church choir. Humes was introduced to music in the church, singing in the choir and getting piano and organ lessons given at Sunday school by Bessie Allen, who taught music to any child who wanted to learn. Humes began occasionally playing the piano in a small and locally traveling dance band, the Dandies. This constant involvement in music would lead to her singing career in the mid-1920s. Career Early career Her career began with her first vocal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Review
''Jazz Review'' was a Scottish jazz magazine, founded in 1998. The founders were jazz writer (and former editor of ''The Wire'') Richard Cook and Roger Spence of the talent management agency Direct Music Limited of Edinburgh, Scotland. ''Jazz Review'' covered the entire range of jazz history from early jazz through swing to bebop, modern jazz and the avant-garde, and was known for its scholarly approach and independent stance. Major artists — including Keith Jarrett, Lee Konitz, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck, and Wynton Marsalis — gave interviews to the magazine; historical surveys have included the Modern Jazz Quartet, Fletcher Henderson, Oscar Peterson, and Andrew Hill. The magazine was also renowned for its coverage of British jazz. Contributors included Simon Adams, Ronald Atkins, Emma Baker, Garry Booth, Jack Cooke, Tim Dorset, Rick Finlay, Mike Fish, Derek Gorman, Fred Grand, Hugh Gregory, Andy Hamilton, Martin Longley, Alan Luff, Chris Parker, Catherine Parsonage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2008. Events January * 30 – The 11th Polarjazz, Polarjazz Festival started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (January 30 – February 2). February * 21 – The 3rd Ice Music Festival Festival started in Geilo, Norway (February 21–24). March * 7 – The 4th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 7–9). * 11 – Jazz musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton announces his retirement from presenting BBC Radio 2's jazz programme after forty years. * 14 ** The 35th Vossajazz started at Voss, Norway (March 14–16). ** Mads Berven was awarded Vossajazzprisen 2008. * 19 – Tord Gustavsen performs the commissioned work ''Restar av lukke – bitar av tru'' for Vossajazz 2008. * 31 – theJazz radio station stops broadcasting. April * 18 ** The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) ceased daily operations and filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the United States Fede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Gallodoro
Alfred J. Gallodoro, (June 20, 1913 – October 4, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, who performed from the 1920s up until his death. He is notable for having played lead alto sax with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and bass clarinet for 12 years with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey praised him as "the best sax player who ever lived." Early years Gallodoro was born to a Chicago steelworker, but moved with his family to Birmingham, Alabama when he was five years old. About the same time his father began teaching him clarinet on the "Albert Method". Devoting himself to practice, Gallodoro earned a spot with Romeo and His Juliets and made his first stage appearance at Birmingham's Lyric Theatre in 1926. The next summer he toured the Gulf Coast with Birmingham banjo player George Evans and decided to settle in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his family joined him. After six years of playing nightclubs, speakeasies an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 In Jazz
In the 2000s in jazz, well-established jazz musicians, such as Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Jessica Williams (musician), Jessica Williams, Michael Franks (musician), Michael Franks and George Benson, continued to perform and record. In the 1990s and 2000s, a number of young musicians emerged, including US pianists Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran (musician), Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, trumpeters Roy Hargrove and Terence Blanchard, saxophonists Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist), Chris Potter and Joshua Redman, and bassist Christian McBride. 2000 Events ;January * 28 – The 3rd Polarjazz started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (February 28 – 30). ;April * 14 – The 27th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 14 – 16). ;May * 10 – The 11th MaiJazz started in Stavanger, Norway (May 10 – 14). * 25 – The 28th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 25 – June 3). ;June * 9 – The 29th Moe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Black
Stanley Black OBE (14 June 1913 – 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist. He wrote and arranged many film scores, recording prolifically for the Decca label (including their subsidiaries ''London'' and ''Phase 4''). Beginning with jazz collaborations with American musicians such as Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter during the 1930s, he moved into arranging and recording in the Latin American music style and also won awards for his classical conducting. Life and career Black was born as Solomon Schwartz on 14 June 1913 in Whitechapel, England. His parents were Polish and Romanian Jews. He began piano lessons at the age of seven and trained in piano and composition under Rae Robertson at the Matthay School of Music. He was aged only 12 when his first classical composition was broadcast on BBC Radio. His first professional job was for a C.B. Cochran 1930 theatrical revue followed by winning a ''Melody Maker'' competition for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1987. Events April * 10 – The 14th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 10 – 12). May * 20 – The 15th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 20 – June 3). June * 5 – The 16th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 5 – 8). * 26 – The 8th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (June 26 – July 6). July * 2 – The 21st Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 2 – 19). * 10 – The 12th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands (July 10 – 12). August * 21 – The 4th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 21 – 23). September * 15 – The 30th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 15 – 17). Album releases *Henry Threadgill: '' Easily Slip Into Another World'' *Anthony Davis: ''Undine'' * Steve Lacy: ''Momentum'' *John Zorn: ''Spillane'' *Sun Ra Arkestra: '' Reflections in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Herman
Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental; their recordings received numerous Grammy nominations. Early life and career Herman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 16, 1913. His parents were Otto and Myrtle (Bartoszewicz) Herrmann. His mother was born in Poland. His father had a deep love for show business and this influenced Woody at an early age. As a child he worked as a singer and tap-dancer in vaudeville, then started to play the clarinet and saxophone by age 12. In 1931 he met Charlotte Neste, an aspiring actress; the couple married on September 27, 1936. Woody Herman joined the Tom Gerun band and his first recorded vocals were "Lonesome Me" and "My Heart's at Ease". Herman also performed wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Bentley (musician)
John Alexander Bentley (29 April 1913 – 22 April 1994)General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. was an English trombonist, journalist, and scriptwriter. He played trombone as part of the brass section of Jack Hylton's Orchestra and Ted Heath's big band from 1937 until the mid-1950s before becoming the show business editor of the '' Sunday Mirror'' newspaper. He was married to actress Wendy Craig from 1955 until his death. Biography Bentley was born in Manchester in 1913 to John and Flora Bentley. His father was a retired army bandsman who had recently moved to Manchester to become a cellist in the Halle Orchestra.John Chilton. ''Who's Who of British Jazz''. Bayou, 2004. Second edition. He was baptised at Stowell Memorial Church in Salford on 8 June 1913.Anglican Parish Registers. Manchester, England: Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives. Bentley's father had taught him to play cello but, when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
