1911 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1911.

Events

March

* 18 – The Irving Berlin album ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'' was released.

Unknown date

* The composer and pianist Scott Joplin published his opera Treemonisha.

Standards

Births

; January
* 25 – Truck Parham, American upright bassist (died 2002).
* 30
** Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpeter (died 1989).
** Frank Weir, British orchestra leader and saxophonist (died 1981).

; March
* 7 — Louis Cottrell Jr., American clarinetist and tenor saxophonist (died 1978).
* 10 – Pete Clarke, British saxophonist and clarinetist (died 1975).
* 16 – Harper Goff, Afro-Cuban clarinetist, saxophonist, and trumpeter (died 1993).
* 31 – Freddie Green, American guitarist (died 1987).

; April
* 2 — Cag Cagnolatti, American trumpeter (died 1983).
* 12 – Tullio Mobiglia, Italian saxophonist and bandleader (died 1991).
* 16 – Alton Purnell, American pianist (died 1987).
* 21
** John G. Blowers Jr. or Johnny Blowers, American drummer (died 2006).
** Zilas Görling, Swedish saxophonist (died 1960).
* 28
** Mario Bauza, American artist, musician, and actor (died 1993).
** Norma Teagarden, American pianist (died 1996).

; May
* 8 — Robert Johnson, American guitarist, singer, and composer (died 1938).
* 13 – Billy Munn, British jazz pianist and arranger (died 2000).
* 13 – Maxine Sullivan, American vocalist and performer (died 1987).
* 18 – Big Joe Turner, American blues shouter (died 1985).

; July
* 7 — Charles Redland, Swedish saxophonist, bandleader, and composer (died 1994).
* 10 – Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (died 1985).
* 17 – Lionel Ferbos, American trumpeter (died 2014).
* 23 – Lodewijk Parisius "Kid Dynamite", Surinamese-Dutch tenor saxophonist (died 1963).

; August
* 20 – Billy Amstell, British reedist (died 2005).
* 28 – George Clarke, American tenor saxophonist (died 1985).

; September
* 30 – Clare Deniz, British pianist (died 2002).

; October
* 7 — Jo Jones, American drummer (died 1985).
* 8 — Karel Vlach, Czech musician, orchestra conductor, and arranger (died 1986).
* 26 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (died 1972).

; November
* 11 – Dick Wilson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (died 1941).
* 12 – Buck Clayton, American trumpeter (died 1991).
* 17 – Max Miller, American pianist and vibraphonist (died 1985).
* 21 – Alvin Burroughs, American drummer (died 1950).
* 22 – Ernie Caceres, American saxophonist (died 1971).

; December
* 14 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (died 1965).
* 15 – Stan Kenton, American pianist, composer, arranger, and band leader (died 1979).
* 19 – Lu Watters, American trumpeter and band leader, Yerba Buena Jazz Band (died 1989).

; UNknown date
* Aldo Rossi, Italian reedist and bandleader (died 1980).

References

External links

History Of Jazz Timeline: 1911
at All About Jazz

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