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1948 In Jazz
1948 in jazz This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1948. The Nice Jazz Festival held annually since February 25, 1948 in Nice, on the French Riviera. Also in 1948, Louis Armstrong formed the first version of the Jazz All Stars with Jack Teagarden on trombone, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Dick Carey on piano, Sid Catlett on drums and Arvell Shaw on bass. Their music fits in with New Orleans revival. Louis Armstrong performed at the Jazz festival in 1948, where Suzy Delair sang "C'est si bon" by Henri Betti and André Hornez for the first time in public. Events February * 22 – The very first Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France (February 22 – 28). **The Nice Jazz Festival is inaugurated. Held annually in Nice, on the French Riviera, it is "the first jazz festival of international significance." Album releases * Coleman Hawkins: ''Picasso'' * Stan Kenton: '' A Presentation of Progressive Jazz'' Standards Deaths ; January * 3 – Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Syms (singer)
Sylvia Syms (December 2, 1917 – May 10, 1992) was an American jazz singer. Biography Syms was born Sylvia Blagman in Brooklyn, New York. As a child, she had polio. As a teenager, she went to jazz nightclubs on New York's 52nd Street and received informal training from Billie Holiday. She made her debut in 1941 at Kelly's Stables (New York), Kelly's Stable. In 1948, performing at the Cinderella Club in Greenwich Village, she was seen by Mae West, who gave her a part in a show she was doing. Among others who observed her in nightclubs was Frank Sinatra who considered her the "world's greatest saloon singer." Sinatra conducted her 1982 album, ''Syms by Sinatra''. She was signed to a contract by Decca Records, having her major success with a recording of "I Could Have Danced All Night" in 1956, which sold over one million copies and was awarded a music recording sales certification, gold disc. Syms made regular appearances at the Carlyle in Manhattan. At times, impromptu, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Kenton And Eddie Safranski, 1947 Or 1948 (William P
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1922 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1922. Musicians born that year included Carmen McRae and Charles Mingus. Jazz scene In 1922, the jazz age was well underway. Chicago and New York City were becoming the most important centres for jazz, and jazz was becoming very profitable for jazz managers such as Paul Whiteman . Whiteman by 1922 managed some 28 different jazz ensembles on the East Coast of the United States, earning over a $1,000,000 in 1922. Despite its popularity, as a form of music Jazz was still not appreciated by many critics, including Anne Faulkner who passed off jazz as "a destructive dissonance", asking if the music "put the sin in syncopation"and Henry van Dyke who described jazz as "an unmitigated cacophony, a species of music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles. Chicago in 1922 in particular was attracting bands such as Joe "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band at the Lincoln Gardens, joined by Louis Armstrong on August 8, 1922, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Hasselgård
Sten Åke Henry "Stan" Hasselgård (October 4, 1922, in Sundsvall, Sweden – November 23, 1948, in Decatur, Illinois, United States) was a Swedish jazz clarinetist. Hasselgård was heavily influenced by Benny Goodman, and he played swing jazz in his early years, before exploring bebop shortly before his death. Biography His father was John Levin Johansson (1886–1923), a son of Johan Ludvig Persson who later changed his name to John Hasselgård; his mother was Linda Köhler (1893–1979), a daughter of Magnus Wilhelm Köhler. Åke Hasselgård's father died in a hunting accident in Gällivare when Åke was only a year old.Roland Classon,Stan Hasselgård och hans rötter ("Stan Hasselgård and his roots"), ''Helsingborgs Dagblad'', October 30, 2006. Accessed December 4, 2011. Hasselgård grew up in Bollnäs, Sweden, and began playing clarinet at the age of 16. He attended college at the University of Uppsala and played in the there. In 1945, he played in a quintet led by Arthu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1907. Events ; June * 5 – The New Orleans Blues trumpet pioneer Buddy Bolden runs amok and is committed to the state hospital at Angola. He spent the rest of his life there and was never recorded. Standards Births ; January * 4 – Joe Marsala, Italian-American clarinetist and songwriter (died 1978). * 31 – Benny Morton, American trombonist most associated with the swing genre (died 1985). ; February * 10 – Joe Haymes, American bandleader and arranger (died 1964). * 22 – Rex Stewart, American cornetist, Duke Ellington Orchestra (died 1967). * 26 – Harry Gold, British saxophonist and bandleader (died 2005). ; March * 1 – Albert Ammons, American pianist (died 1949). * 7 – Olivia Plunket Greene, English musician, Bright Young Things (died 1958). * 28 – Herb Hall, American clarinetist and saxophonist (died 1996). ; April * 15 – Casper Reardon, American harpist (died 1941). * 26 – Dave Toug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Savitt
Jan Savitt (born Jacob Savetnick; September 4, 1907 – October 4, 1948), known as "The Stokowski of Swing", from having played violin in Leopold Stokowski's orchestra, was an American bandleader, musical arranger, and violinist. Early life and education Savitt was born in Shumsk, then part of the Russian Empire (now part of Ukraine) and reared in Philadelphia. He evidenced musical ability an early age and began winning conservatory scholarships in the study of the violin. He was offered the position of concert master in Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, but turned it down, preferring to continue his studies at Curtis Institute. About a year later, believing himself ready, he joined Stokowski and the association continued for seven years, during which time Savitt gained further laurels as a concert soloist and leader of a string quartet. Family Savitt was married to model Barbara Ann Stillwell from 1940 until his death in 1948, and had two daughters with her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutt Carey
Thomas "Papa Mutt" Carey (September 17, 1891 – September 3, 1948) was an American jazz trumpeter. Early life Carey was born in Hahnville, Louisiana,Kernfedl, Barry, ed. ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. Macmillan, 1994. p. 185. and moved to New Orleans with his family in his youth. His older brother Jack Carey was a trombone player and bandleader; Mutt was playing cornet in his brother's band by about 1912. Career Although Carey's early work was with brass bands in the New Orleans area (1913–17), in 1914, he started working with Kid OryZieff, Bob"Carey, (Papa) Mutt".''Grove Music Online''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2022. and would continue to do so, on and off, through the 1910s. After touring the vaudeville circuits in 1917, he returned to New Orleans in 1918 and then went to California with Ory in 1919, eventually taking over leadership of the band when Ory left in 1925. Carey’s big band, the Jeffersonians, appeared in the silent films ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red McKenzie
William 'Red' McKenzie (October 14, 1899 – February 7, 1948) was an American jazz vocalist and musician who played a comb as an instrument. He played the comb-and-paper by placing paper, sometimes strips from the ''Evening World'', over the tines and blowing on it, producing a sound like a kazoo. Career He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. In 1923, he founded the Mound City Blue Blowers, with Jack Bland and Dick Slevin. Later they were later joined by guitarist Eddie Lang. The quartet also used the name Red McKenzie and the Candy Kids. In 1929, the Blue Blowers recorded the songs "One Hour" and "Hello Lola" with Glenn Miller, Pee Wee Russell, and Coleman Hawkins. They also recorded with Bunny Berigan, Jimmy Dorsey, and Muggsy Spanier. McKenzie sang with the Paul Whiteman orchestra and in the 1930s led the Spirits of Rhythm and the Farley-Riley band. In 1931, he sang on " Time on My Hands, "Just Friends" (1931), and "I'm Sorry Dear" (1931). McKenzie played in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1901. Events * Charles Booth performs Creole Belles by J. Bodewalt Lampe. His performance was the first acoustic recording of ragtime to be made commercially available, for the new Victor label. Standards Births ; February * 11 – Claude Jones, American trombonist (died 1962). ; March * 27 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine tango and milonga pianist, bandoneón player, ainger, and composer (died 1951). * 29 – Sidney Arodin, American clarinetist and songwriter (died 1948). ; May * 11 – Edmond Hall, American clarinetist and bandleader (died 1967). * 20 – Jimmy Blythe, American pianist and composer (died 1931). * 30 – Frankie Trumbauer, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1956). ; June * 8 – Lou Black, American banjo player (died 1965). ; July * 1 – Richard Plunket Greene, English musician and author, Bright Young Things (died 1978). ; August * 4 – Louis Armstrong, Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Arodin
Sidney Arnandan or Arnondrin or Arnondin, better known as Sidney Arodin (March 29, 1901, Westwego, Louisiana - February 6, 1948, New Orleans) was an American jazz clarinetist and songwriter, best known for co-writing the pop standard " Lazy River" with Hoagy Carmichael. Arodin began playing clarinet at age 15 and played at local New Orleans gatherings and on riverboats. He made his way to New York City and played with Johnny Stein's New Orleans Jazz Band from 1922. He played with Jimmy Durante in the middle of the decade, then returned to Louisiana to play with Wingy Manone and Sharkey Bonano. In the 1930s he worked with Louis Prima and with a reconstituted version of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings which also featured Manone. After 1941, Arodin's poor health prevented him from playing frequently live, but before this time he recorded with Johnnie Miller, Albert Brunies, Monk Hazel, and the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight. The oft-repeated claim that many of his performances are m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiser Marshall
Joseph "Kaiser" Marshall (June 11, 1902 in Savannah, Georgia – January 2, 1948 in New York City) was an American jazz drummer. Marshall was raised in Boston, where he studied under George L. Stone. He played with Charlie Dixon before moving to New York City early in the 1920s. After playing with violinist Shrimp Jones, he joined Fletcher Henderson's band at the Club Alabam, and remained in Henderson's retinue from 1922 until 1929. He played with many noted jazz artists in the 1930s and 1940s, including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Art Hodes, Wild Bill Davison, Sidney Bechet, Bunk Johnson, and Mezz Mezzrow. He also recorded with Louis Armstrong in the late 1920s, being the drummer on Armstrong's recording of "Knockin' a Jug" from March 5, 1929. In 1928-1930, he recorded with Benny Carter, Fats Waller and Coleman Hawkins in McKinney's Cotton Pickers. And shortly afterrecorded with the Four Bales of Hay, featuring Wingy Manone, Dickie Wells, Artie Shaw, Bud Freeman, Frank Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Presentation Of Progressive Jazz
''A Presentation of Progressive Jazz'' is a 1948 jazz album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton. Background The album features performances recorded in 1947 and originally released on the Capitol label as four 78rpm discs, reissued as a 10-inch LP in 1953 as ''A Concert in Progressive Jazz'', and then as a 12-inch LP in 1955 with additional tracks.Vosbein, PStan Kenton Discographyaccessed April 13, 2016 accessed April 13, 2016 Track listing All compositions by Pete Rugolo and Stan Kenton except where noted. # "Cuban Carnival" (Pete Rugolo) – 2:44 # "Monotony" – 3:04 # "Lonely Woman" (, |
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