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1917 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1917. Musicians born in this year included Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk. Events February * 26 – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band records the first jazz album, ''Livery Stable Blues''. It was a success and paved the way for the first jazz records in US music shops. Standards * In 1917 standards such as "Back Home Again in Indiana, Indiana" and "Tiger Rag" appeared. Deaths ; April * 1 – Scott Joplin, American composer and pianist (born 1868). Births ; January * 9 – Jimmy Maxwell (trumpeter), Jimmy Maxwell, American trumpeter (died 2002 in jazz, 2002). * 10 – Jerry Wexler, American music journalist and music producer (died 2008 in jazz, 2008). * 14 – Billy Butterfield, American band leader, trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist (died 1988 in jazz, 1988). * 16 – Sandy Block, American bassist (died 1985 in jazz, 1985). * 19 ** Shep Shepherd, American drummer and trombonist (died 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James F
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...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] |
1959 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1959. Events May * 4 – 1st Annual Grammy Awards **Ella Fitzgerald awarded Best Vocal Performance, Female for the album ''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook'', and Best Jazz Performance, Individual for the album ''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook''. **Count Basie awarded Best Jazz Performance, Group and Best Performance by a Dance Band for the album '' Basie''. ** Billy May awarded Best Performance by an Orchestra for the album ''Billy May's Big Fat Brass''. July * 2 – The 6th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 2 – 5). August * 7-9 - Playboy Jazz Festival - First indoor Jazz Festival. Chicago, Illinois. * 25 – Between sets at Birdland in New York City, Miles Davis is beaten by police and jailed. November * 29 – 2nd Annual Grammy Awards ** Frank Sinatra awarded Album Of The Year, Best Arrangement, and Best Vocal Performance, Male for the song " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Parrish
James Avery Parrish (January 24, 1917 – December 10, 1959) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger. He wrote and recorded " After Hours". Injuries from a bar fight in 1943 ended his career as a pianist. Early life Parrish was born in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents were Curley and Fannie G Parrish. Avery had at least one brother, who became an educator. Parrish graduated from Parker High School in Birmingham. According to a gossip columnist in 1935, Parrish was at that time married to singer Velma Middleton. Later life Parrish studied at the Alabama State Teachers College, where he played in the Bama State Collegians, an ensemble led by Erskine Hawkins. He remained in Hawkins's employ until 1942,"'Record Man' Returns to WOR Program" (May 9, 1942) ''The Pittsburgh Courier''. p. 20. and recorded with him extensively. Parrish wrote the music to " After Hours", and a 1940 recording of the tune with Hawkins's orchestra resulted in its becoming a jazz standard. He a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events in Jazz in the year 1946. Events * The Jazz Journal is established in London by Sinclair Traill, originally under the title Pick Up. * Armstrong wins the Esquire Gold award for Vocalist. Album releases *''Artistry in Rhythm'' – Stan Kenton Standards Births ; January * 4 — Susannah McCorkle, American singer (died 2001). * 4 — André Ceccarelli, French drummer and composer. * 12 – George Duke, American keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer (died 2013). * 16 – Spike Wells, English drummer and priest. * 20 – John Sheridan, American pianist. * 24 – Marion Cowings, American singer and university teacher. * 30 – Michael S. Smith, American drummer and percussionist (died 2006). * 31 – Terry Kath, American guitarist and vocalist, Chicago (died 1978). ; February * 20 – J. Geils, American jazz and blues guitarist in The J. Geils Band (died 2017). * 21 – Terry Bradds, American guitarist. * 22 – Tom Grant, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Beckett
Fred Lee Beckett (January 23, 1917 – January 30, 1946) was an American jazz trombonist known for his work with the Lionel Hampton Big Band and other jazz groups. Beckett was born in 1917 in Nettleton, Mississippi and learned to play trombone in his high school band. Career Beckett's professional career began in Kansas City in the 1930s, and soon after he landed a job with Eddie Johnson's Crackerjacks in St. Louis, Missouri. He played with Duke Wright, Tommy Douglas, Buster Smith, and Andy Kirk over the next few years, as well as time in a territory band with Prince Stewart and a gig in Omaha, Nebraska with Nat Towles. Later in the decade he played with Harlan Leonard. Beckett's musical style has been described as flexible and legato. In the early 1940s, Beckett played with Lionel Hampton, performing behind vocalists like Dinah Washington. He served in the Army during World War II, where he contracted tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1996. Events March * 29 – The 23rd Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 29 – 31). May * 22 – The 24th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 22 – June 2). * 24 – The 25th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 24 – 27). June * 27 – The 17th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Canada (June 27 – July 7). * 28 – The 6th Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria (June 28 – July 13). July * 5 – The 30th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Switzerland (July 5 – 20). * 12 ** The 21st North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands (July 12 – 14). ** The 31st Pori Jazz Festival started in Finland (July 12 – 21). * 15 – The 37th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (July 15 – 20). * 18 – The 49th Nice Jazz Festival started in France (July 18 – 20). * 21 – The 31st San Sebastian Jazz Festival started in San Sebastian, Spain (July 22 – 27). August * 9 – Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pud Brown
Albert Francis "Pud" Brown (January 22, 1917, Wilmington, Delaware - May 27, 1996, Algiers, Louisiana) was an American jazz reed player. Though he was born in Delaware, Brown's parents raised him in Shreveport, Louisiana. Brown was fluent on saxophone by age five, and toured throughout North America in a family band at the age of seven. Brown's father, an engineer, built their motor home, a vehicle with a top speed of 25 miles per hour, which they took on tours of circuses, nightclubs, and minstrel shows in the middle of the 1920s. After moving to Chicago, Brown found work in Phil Lavant's orchestra in 1938 and then in Lawrence Welk's band. In 1941 he married his wife Louise. He returned to Shreveport to run a motorcycle shop, but the endeavor failed, and he relocated once again to Los Angeles. There, he found prolific work as a jazz musician for the next several decades, playing with Les Brown (bandleader), Les Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Doc Cheatham, Danny Barker, Kid Ory, Percy H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2001. Events January * 25 – The 4th Polarjazz started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (January 25 – 28). February March April * 6 ** The 28th Vossajazz started at Voss, Norway (April 6 – 8). ** Stein Inge Brækhus was awarded Vossajazzprisen 2003. * 3 – Eldbjørg Raknes performs the commissioned work ''So much depends upon a red wheel barrow'' for Vossajazz 2003. May * 23 – The 29th Nattjazz 2001 started in Bergen, Norway (May 23 – June 2). June * 1 – The 30th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 1 – 4). * 19 – The 13th Jazz Fest Wien started in Vienna, Austria (June 19 – July 8). * 26 – The 18th Stockholm Jazz Festival started in Stockholm, Sweden (June 26 – July 22). * 29 – The 22nd Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (June 29 - July 10). July * 6 – The 35th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 6 – 22). * 13 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Maxted
William George Maxted (January 21, 1917 – October 11, 2001) was an American jazz pianist. Career Maxted began his career in 1937 as a member of the Red Nichols big band, for which he wrote arrangements. After three years, he played with Teddy Powell, Ben Pollack, and Will Bradley. He served in the U.S. Navy, then wrote arrangements for the big bands of Claude Thornhill and Benny Goodman. During 1947, he led a band with Ray Eberle and soon after led the Manhattan Jazz Band, which played Dixieland with Bob Zurke on boogie-woogie piano. During the 1950s, he had a steady job as house pianist at Nick's club in Greenwich Village. He also recorded for MGM, Brunswick, Cadence, and Seeco. In 1958, British bandleader Reg Owen had a major hit on the American charts with Maxted's upbeat instrumental composition, "Manhattan Spiritual", released on the Palette label. In the 1960s, he recorded for K&H and Liberty and as a sideman for Bob Crosby, Pee Wee Erwin, and Red Nichols. He moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streamline Ewing
John Richard "Streamline" Ewing (January 19, 1917 – February 1, 2002) was an American jazz trombonist. Career In 1934, Ewing began his career when he was seventeen. Four years later he was with Horace Henderson, then with Earl Hines live and on record from 1938 to 1939 and from 1941 to 1942. He worked for short spans with Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton in the 1940s, in addition to Jimmie Lunceford (1943–45), Cab Calloway (1946, 1949), Jay McShann (1948), Cootie Williams (1950), Louis Jordan, and Earl Bostic. In the early 1950s he moved to California and played with George Jenkins and in the studio with T-Bone Walker and Gerald Wilson. He began playing with Teddy Buckner in 1956; the two would play together on and off into the 1980s. He led his band the Streamliners for recording sessions in 1958 and 1960. In 1962 he toured with Henderson again and with Rex Stewart in 1967. Late in the 1960s he played in the Young Men of New Orleans band. In 1983 he played with the Eagle B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2018. Events January * 11 ** The 17th All Ears festival started in Oslo (January 11–14). ** The 4th annual Tucson Jazz Festival started in Tucson, Arizona (January 11 – 21). * 19 – The 37th annual Djangofestival started on Cosmopolite in Oslo, Norway (January 19–20). * 28 – The Gustav Lundgren Trio performed a tribute to Django Reinhardt at Stockholm Concert Hall. * 31 ** The 7th Bodø Jazz Open started in Bodø, Norway (January 31 – February 3). ** The 13th Ice Music Festival started in Geilo, Norway (January 31 – February 4). February * 1 – The 20th Polarjazz Festival started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (February 1 – 4). * 23 – Kirsti Huke received the 2017 Radka Toneff Memorial Award. * 25 – The band Hegge was awarded the 2017 jazz Spellemannprisen. March * 2 – The 14th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival started in Jakarta, Indonesia (March 2 – 4). * 8 – The Turku Jazz F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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