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1935 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1935 Events * The beginning of the “Swing Era”. * Ella Fitzgerald won a one-week performance at the Harlem Opera House. Standards Deaths ; January * 31 – Edwin Swayze, American jazz trumpeter and composer (born 1906 in jazz, 1906). ; May * 3 – Cecil Irwin (musician), Cecil Irwin, American jazz reed player and arranger (born 1902 in jazz, 1902). ; July * 21 – Honoré Dutrey, dixieland jazz trombonist (born 1894). ; April * 2 – Bennie Moten, American jazz pianist and band leader (born 1894). ; November * 27 – Charlie Green (musician), Charlie Green, jazz trombonists, and the soloist in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra (born 1893). Births ; January * 5 – Chuck Flores, American drummer (died 2016 in jazz, 2016). * 6 – Nino Tempo, American musician, singer, and actor. * 7 ** Kenny Davern, American clarinetist (died 2006 in jazz, 2006). ** Sam Woodyard, American drummer (died 1988 in jazz, 19 ... [...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] |
