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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] |
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, improvis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Plunket Greene
Richard George Hubert Plunket Greene (1 July 1901 – 25 March 1978) was an English racing motorist, a jazz musician and author. Biography Richard George Hubert Plunket Greene was born on 1 July 1901, the son of Harry Plunket Greene, an Irish baritone who was most famous in the formal concert and oratorio repertoire, and Gwendolen Maud Parry, the daughter of Hubert Parry, English composer, teacher and historian of music. His grandmother, Louisa Lelias (Lilias) Plunket, was an author as well (''Bound by a spell, or The Hunted Witch of the Forest'', 1885). He attended Oxford University where he formed a long-lasting friendship with Evelyn Waugh, who at one time, in the 1920s, was in love with Plunket Greene's sister, Olivia Plunket Greene. Waugh described him as "a piratical in appearance, sometimes wearing ear-rings, a good man in a boat, a heavy smoker of dark, strong tobacco, tinged, as were his siblings, with melancholy, but also infused with a succession of wild, obsessive e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Collins (musician)
Leeds "Lee" Collins (October 17, 1901 – July 3, 1960) was an American jazz trumpeter. Early life Collins was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a teenager, he played in brass bands, including the Young Eagles, the Columbia Band, and the Tuxedo Brass Band. Career In the 1910s, Collins played in New Orleans alongside Louis Armstrong, Papa Celestin, and Zutty Singleton. Hemoved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1924, where he replaced Louis Armstrong in King Oliver's band. He also played with Jelly Roll Morton, but the two had disagreements and fell out when Collins claimed that Morton stole the song "Fish Tail Blues" from him. Collins returned to New Orleans, where he played on the recordings of the Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight in 1929. He then played in New York City with Luis Russell in 1930. He went back to Chicago, where he played with Dave Peyton (1930), the Chicago Ramblers (1932), Johnny Dodds and Baby Dodds, Zutty Singleton, Mezz Mezzrow, Lovie Austin, and Jimmy B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1966. Events January * 14 – The Jazz Crusaders record ''Live at the Lighthouse '66'' at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California (January 14 – 16). July * 1 – The 13th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 1 – 4). Album releases * Alex Schlippenbach: '' Globe Unity'' *Archie Shepp: ''Mama Too Tight'' *Bill Evans: '' Bill Evans at Town Hall'' *Bobby Hutcherson: '' Happenings'' *Bobby Hutcherson: '' Stick-Up!'' *Cecil Taylor: '' Unit Structures'' *Cecil Taylor: '' Conquistador!'' * Charles Lloyd: ''Dream Weaver'' *Charles Tyler: '' Charles Tyler Ensemble'' *Chick Corea: '' Tones For Joan's Bones'' *Denny Zeitlin: ''Zeitgeist'' *Dewey Redman: ''Look for the Black Star'' *Don Cherry: '' Symphony For Improvisers'' *Duke Ellington: '' The Far East Suite'' * Guenter Hampel: ''Assemblage'' *Hank Mobley: '' Straight No Filter'' *Horace Silver: '' The Jody Grind'' *Hugh Masekela: '' Grrr' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thelma Terry
Thelma Terry (born Thelma Esther Combes; September 30, 1901 – May 30, 1966) was an American bandleader and bassist during the 1920s and 1930s. She led Terry and Her Playboys and was the first American woman to lead a notable jazz orchestra as an instrumentalist. Early life Terry was born in Bangor, Michigan in 1901. Her parents divorced when she was very young. She moved with her mother and two sisters to Chicago, where her mother was employed as a servant for the wealthy Runner family. When young Thelma was given the opportunity to receive musical training with the instrument of her choice, she chose to study string bass. Her early years were spent on the road performing in Chautauqua assemblies. After graduating from Austin Union High School, she earned first chair in the Chicago Women's Symphony Orchestra. As this did not provide her with a living, she turned to jazz. Early career Through contacts at Austin Union, she found her way into Chicago nightlife. After playing ... [...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 its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1990. Events April * 6 – The 17th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 6 – 8). May * 23 – The 18th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 23 – June 3). June * 1 – The 19th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 1 – 4). July * 7 – 24th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Switzerland (July 7 – 22). * 12 – The 15th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 12 – 15). August * 17 – The 7th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 17 – 19). September * 21 – The 33rd Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 21 – 23). Unknown date * Eliane Elias and Randy Brecker was divorced. Album releases *Ben Sidran: '' Cool Paradise'' *Bill Frisell: '' Is That You?'' *Bobby Previte: ''Empty Suits'' *Butch Morris: ''Dust To Dust'' *Charlie Haden: '' Dream Keeper'' * Danny Gottlieb: ''Brooklyn Blues'' * David Liebman: ''The Tree'' * David Ware: ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Napoleon
Phil Napoleon (born Filippo Napoli; 2 September 1901 – 1 October 1990) was an early jazz trumpeter and bandleader born in Boston, Massachusetts. Ron Wynn observed that Napoleon "was a competent, though unimaginative trumpeter whose greatest value was the many recording sessions he led that helped increase jazz's popularity in the mid-'20s." Richard Cook and Brian Morton, writing for ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'', refer to Napoleon as "a genuine pioneer" whose playing was "profoundly influential on men such as Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke." Napoleon began with classical training, and was performing publicly by age 5. In the 1910s, he was one of the first musicians in the northeastern United States to embrace the new "jass" style brought to that part of the country by musicians from New Orleans, Louisiana. With pianist Frank Signorelli he formed the group "The Original Memphis Five" in 1917. He became one of the most sought after trumpeters of the 1920s. The group were very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1972. Events April * 21 ** Grant Green records '' Live at the Lighthouse'' at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California. June * 10 – The very first Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 10 – 11). * 16 – The 6th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 16 – August 20). * 29 – The 19th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (June 29 – July 8). September * 15 – The 15th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 15 – 17). Album releases *Neil Ardley: '' Symphony of Amaranths'' *Gato Barbieri: '' Bolivia (album)'' *Paul Bley: '' Open, to Love'' *Anthony Braxton **''Donna Lee'' **'' Saxophone Improvisations'' **'' Town Hall 1972'' *Gary Burton: ''Alone at Last'' * Ornette Coleman: ''Skies of America'' * Chick Corea: ''Return To Forever'' *Miles Davis: ''On The Corner'' * Bill Evans: '' Living Time'' (with George Russell) *Gunter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Rushing
James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972) was an American singer and pianist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. Rushing was known as " Mr. Five by Five" and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others; the lyrics describe Rushing's rotund build: "he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide". He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927 and then joined Bennie Moten's band in 1929. He stayed with the successor Count Basie band when Moten died in 1935. Rushing said that his first time singing in front of an audience was in 1924. He was playing piano at a club when the featured singer, Carlyn Williams, invited him to do a vocal. "I got out there and broke it up. I was a singer from then on," he said. Rushing was a powerful singer who had a range from baritone to tenor. He has sometimes been classified as a blues shouter. He could project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Burse
Charlie Burse (August 25, 1901 – December 20, 1965) was an American blues musician, best known for his work with the Memphis Jug Band. His nicknames included "Laughing Charlie," "Uke Kid Burse" and "The Ukulele Kid." The "uke" in his nicknames referred to the first instrument he was known for, the tenor banjo, which was commonly called a "ukulele-banjo" in the South. Later photographs show him with a tenor guitar, a similar instrument that he played in the same tuning. Biography Career Burse was raised in Sheffield, Alabama by his father—a hotel cook—and mother, along with seven siblings. During the 1920s, he moved to Jackson, where he met his wife, Birdie Crawford, and had three children. He then moved his family to Memphis, Tennessee in 1928. Burse played many musical instruments, including the piano, saxophone and spoons, but was only recorded on guitar, tenor guitar and mandolin. As a singer and multi-instrumentalist, Burse recorded over 60 commercial sides with Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1971. Events May * 2 – The 5th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (May 2 – June 24). July * 2 – The 18th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 2 – 5). September * 17 – The 14th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 17 – 19). Album releases *Art Ensemble of Chicago: '' Phase One'' * Derek Bailey: ''Solo Guitar'' *Gato Barbieri: '' Fenix'' * Carla Bley: '' Escalator Over The Hill'' *Willem Breuker: ''Instant Composers Pool 008'' *Gary Burton: '' Live in Tokyo'' *Alice Coltrane **''Universal Consciousness'' **''Journey in Satchidananda'' * Compost: '' Compost'' * Chick Corea **'' Circle 2: Gathering'' **'' Piano Improvisations'' **'' The Song of Singing'' *Don Ellis: '' Tears of Joy'' * Bill Evans **'' The Bill Evans Album'' **'' From Left to Right'' *Jan Garbarek: ''Sart'' * Freddie Hubbard **'' First Light'' **''Sing Me a Song of Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
