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1951 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1951. Events * The first American Jazz festival takes place at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in the autumn. This festival precedes the first Newport Jazz Festival. * The tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, a Coleman Hawkins influenced player, joins the group of Miles Davis. Album releases *Stan Kenton: ''City of Glass (Stan Kenton album), City of Glass'' *Oscar Peterson: ''1951 (Oscar Peterson album), 1951'' *Shorty Rogers: ''Modern Sounds (album), Modern Sounds'' *Lester Young: ''Lester Young Trio'' Standards Deaths ; January * 21 – R.Q. Dickerson, American trumpeter (born 1898). ; February * 7 – Shirley Clay, American trumpeter (born 1902 in jazz, 1902). ; March * 25 – Sid Catlett, American swinging drummer (born 1910 in jazz, 1910). ; May * 4 – Doc West, American drummer (born 1915 in jazz, 1915). ; August * 17 – Ray Wetzel, American trumpeter (born 1924 in jazz, 1924). ; October * 26 – Charlie Crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Bailey (Gottlieb 00411)
Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a Native American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs. Swing". She recorded the songs " For Sentimental Reasons", "It's So Peaceful in the Country", "Doin' The Uptown Lowdown", " Trust in Me", " Where Are You?", " I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart", " Small Fry", " Please Be Kind", " Darn That Dream", " Rockin' Chair", "Blame It on My Last Affair", and "Says My Heart". She had three records that reached number one on the popular charts. She grew up on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Idaho, where her mother was an enrolled member. The family moved to Spokane, Washington when she was 13. Her younger brothers also became musicians. Her brother, Al Rinker, started to perform as a singer with Bing Crosby in Spokane and became a member of The Rhythm Boys. As adults, Charles Rinker was a lyricist, and Miles Rinker was a clarinet and saxophone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1903. Events * Sidney Bechet borrows his brother's clarinet, and the result is well known. Standards Births ; January * 18 – Min Leibrook, American tubist and bassist (died 1943). ; February * 27 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (died 1951). ; March * 8 – John Ouwerx, Belgian pianist and composer (died 1983). * 10 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornetist, pianist, and composer (died 1931). * 20 – Einar Aaron Swan, American violinist, clarinetist, saxophonist, pianist, arranger, and composer (died 1940). * 25 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (died 2001). ; April * 3 – James "Bubber" Miley, American trumpetist and cornetist (died 1932). ; May * 2 – Spiegle Willcox, American trombonist (died 1999). ; June * 3 – Josephine Baker, French singer, entertainer, activist, and Resistance agent (died 1975). * 12 – Emmett Hardy, American cornetist (died 1925). * 28 – Adrian Rollini, Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a Native American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs. Swing". She recorded the songs " For Sentimental Reasons", "It's So Peaceful in the Country", "Doin' The Uptown Lowdown", " Trust in Me", " Where Are You?", "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart", " Small Fry", "Please Be Kind", "Darn That Dream", " Rockin' Chair", "Blame It on My Last Affair", and "Says My Heart". She had three records that reached number one on the popular charts. She grew up on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Idaho, where her mother was an enrolled member. The family moved to Spokane, Washington when she was 13. Her younger brothers also became musicians. Her brother, Al Rinker, started to perform as a singer with Bing Crosby in Spokane and became a member of The Rhythm Boys. As adults, Charles Rinker was a lyricist, and Miles Rinker was a clarinet and saxophone player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1900. Events * The New Orleans players are adapting a mix of ragtime, blues, brass band music, pop songs and dances, and the jazz stew is now brewing. Some also start to improvise the pop songs. Standards Births ; January * 1 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American bandleader (died 1990). * 11 – Wilbur de Paris, American trombonist and bandleader (died 1973). * 22 – Juan Tizol, Puerto Rican trombonist and composer (died 1984). ; February * 3 – Mabel Mercer, English-born cabaret singer (died 1984). * 9 – Walter Page, American upright bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader (died 1957). * 13 – Wingy Manone, American trumpeter, composer, singer, and bandleader (died 1982). * 24 – Jimmy Bertrand, American drummer (died 1960). * 25 – Tiny Parham, Canadian-American bandleader and pianist (died 1943). ; March * 10 – Peter DeRose, American pianist and songwriter (died 1953). * 24 – June Clark, Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Blake
Cyril "Midnight" Blake (22 October 1900 – 3 December 1951) was a Trinidadian jazz trumpeter. Biography Blake moved to England about 1918, where he played in a British group called the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. He worked in Paris and London as a musician throughout the 1920s, and in the 1930s played in the bands of Leon Abbey, Happy Blake, Rudolph Dunbar, Leslie Thompson, Joe Appleton, and Lauderic Caton. In 1938 he formed his own band, which was centred on Jig's Club in London; he recorded several times with this ensemble. In the 1940s Blake led his band behind Lord Kitchener for recordings on Parlophone Records, playing in a calypso style. Late in his life he returned to Trinidad, where he continued to lead bands. He died of an illness in 1951. External links *Cyril Blakeat Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as info ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Creath
Charles Cyril Creath (December 30, 1890, Ironton, Missouri – October 23, 1951, Chicago, Illinois) was an American jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader. Creath played in traveling circuses and in theater bands in the decade of the 1900s, and moved back to St. Louis, Missouri around 1919. There he led bands playing on the Streckfus company's riverboats traveling on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and St. Louis. His ensembles were so popular that he had several bands under his own name at one time in the 1920s. A young Gene Sedric, later a mainstay of Fats Waller's combo and orchestra, played with Creath on riverboats in the 1920s, and perhaps early 1930s. He co-led a group on the ''SS Capitol'' in 1927 with Fate Marable. Late in the 1920s he suffered from an extended illness, and primarily played saxophone and accordion instead of trumpet afterwards. He and Marable played together again from 1935 to 1938, and toward the end of the decade Creath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1924. Musicians born that year included the drummer Max Roach and singers Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. In 1924, Leopold Stokowski, the British orchestral conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, observed that jazz had "come to stay." Jazz scene In 1924 the improvised solo had become an integral part of most jazz performances Jazz was becoming increasingly popular in New Orleans, Kansas City, Chicago and New York City and 1924 was something of a benchmark of jazz being seen as a serious musical form. John Alden Carpenter insisted that jazz was now 'our contemporary popular music', and Irving Berlin made a statement that jazz was the "rhythmic beat of our everyday lives" and the music's "swiftness is interpretive of our verve and speed". Leopold Stokowski, the conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1924, publicly embraced jazz as a musical art form and praised jazz musicians. In 1924, George Gershwin wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Wetzel
Ray Wetzel (September 22, 1924 – August 17, 1951) was an American jazz trumpeter. Critic Scott Yanow described him as "greatly admired by his fellow trumpeters". Career Wetzel played lead trumpet for Woody Herman from 1943 to 1945 and for Stan Kenton from 1945 to 1948. He recorded in 1947 with the Metronome All-Stars, Vido Musso, and Neal Hefti, and married bass player Bonnie Addleman in 1949. While with the Charlie Barnet Orchestra in 1949, he played trumpet alongside Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen, and Rolf Ericson. He played with his wife in Tommy Dorsey's ensemble in 1950 and with Kenton again in 1951. While touring with Dorsey in 1951, he was killed in a car crash at the age of 27. He never recorded as a leader. He is credited with composing the Stan Kenton tune 'Intermission Riff'. Discography With Stan Kenton * ''Artistry in Rhythm'' (Capitol, 1946) * '' Encores'' (Capitol, 1947) * ''A Presentation of Progressive Jazz'' (Capitol, 1947) * ''Stan Kenton's Milest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1915. Events * The exact year in which the musical style called jazz began is subject to debate, as are the origins of the word and what exactly qualifies as jazz. Certainly, the term had come to be used by 1915 for a form of music based on New Orleans Ragtime music. Some of the earliest standards first appeared in 1915, and some musicians who went on to become famous in the golden age of jazz were born in that year. * Tom Brown's band from New Orleans goes to Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jas Band" Standards * Some credit the first jazz recordings to Afro-Creole pianist Jelly Roll Morton. His "Jelly Roll Blues", which he composed around 1905, was published in 1915 as the first jazz arrangement in print, introducing more musicians to the New Orleans style. Births ; January * 2 – Nick Fatool, American drummer (died 2000). * 7 ** Chano Pozo, Afro-Cuban percussionist and singer (died 1948 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc West
Harold "Doc" West (August 12, 1915 – May 4, 1951) was an American jazz drummer. Early life West was born in Wolford, North Dakota. He learned to play piano and cello as a child before switching to drums. Career In the 1930s, West played in Chicago with Tiny Parham, Erskine Tate, and Roy Eldridge (1937–38). Late in the 1930s he filled in for Chick Webb when Webb was unable to lead his own orchestra. Early in the 1940s he played with Hot Lips Page, and played on the early bebop scene at Minton's Playhouse in New York City with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Tiny Grimes, and Don Byas. He played with Oscar Pettiford in 1944 and stood in for Jo Jones occasionally in Count Basie's orchestra. West appears on recordings from Slam Stewart, Leo Watson, Wardell Gray, Billie Holiday, Erroll Garner, Big Joe Turner, and Jay McShann James Columbus "Jay" McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006) was an American jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and bandleader. He led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1910. Events * Violinist, pianist, composer and conductor James Reese Europe founds the Clef Club, an association for Black musicians based in New York. Standards Births ; January * 2 – Minoru Matsuya, Japanese pianist (died 1995). * 14 – Jimmy Crawford, American drummer (died 1980). * 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian-born, Romani French jazz guitarist and composer (died 1953). * 27 – Charlie Holmes, American alto jazz saxophonist of the swing era (died 1985). ; February * 21 – Al Sears, American tenor saxophonist and bandleader (died 1990). ; March * 6 – Arthur Österwall, Swedish band leader, composer, vocalist, and upright bassist (died 1990). ; April * 1 — Harry Carney, American saxophonist (died 1974). * 16 – Boyce Brown, American dixieland alto saxophonist (died 1959). * 28 – Everett Barksdale, American guitarist (died 1986). ; May * 8 — Mary Lou Williams, African-American pianist, comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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