American author and dramatist Edna Ferber publishes the novel Show Boat, popularizing life in the Southern United States. Although Ferber never visited the south and invented her story from fictional minstrel themes, the real American Show Boats were steeped in the black Riverboat Jazz music of Mississippi and the Ohio Valley.[1]
American ragtime jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Jelly Roll Morton is signed by Victor and begins recording with the Red Hot Peppers, featuring Kid Ory, Omer Simeon, George Mitchell, Johnny St. Cyr, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, and Baby Dodds.
Duke Ellington and his band record "East St Louis Toodle-o" on November 29.
The Jean Goldkette band with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer start playing the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan in early October.[2]
Record releases[]
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five releases recordings on Okeh: including Heebie Jeebies.[3][4]
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers recordings on Victor:"Sidewalk Blues."[5][6]
Jacques Émile Blanche (1861–1942) criticizes Jazz music and dance in La Revue nouvelle as a foreign import that threatens the nationality of France.[9]
Deaths[]
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Edmund Jenkins, African-American composer during the Harlem Renaissance (born 1894).
Births[]
Jazz guitarist Franco Cerri in Milan, Italy in September 2008
Kenny Hagood with Dizzy Gillespie.
Jazz musician Miles Davis
Czech jazz singer Vlasta Pruchova, Lucerna Hall, Prague 1985
Tony Bennett in 2012.
John Coltrane in 1961.
January
5 – Jack Brokensha, Australian-born American vibraphonist (died 2010).
8 – Renato Sellani, Italian pianist and composer (died 2014).
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Bucky Pizzarelli, American guitarist and banjo player (died 2020).
Randi Hultin, Norwegian jazz critic and impresario (died 2000).
^Ward, Geoffrey C., "Jazz: a history of America's music." Knopf, 2000. Pages 130, 131. ISBN0-679-44551-X
^[1] Larson, Thomas E.E. The history and tradition of jazz." Kendall Hunt Pub Co, 2002 Page 59. ISBN978-0-7872-7574-7.
^[2] Ratliff, Ben "The New York Times essential library: Jazz"a critic's guide to the 100 most important recordings." Times Books, 2002, Page 17. ISBN978-0-8050-7068-2
^Ward, Geoffrey C., "Jazz: a history of America's music." Knopf, 2000. Pages 136-137. ISBN0-679-44551-X
^Blake, Jody (1999). Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930. Penn State Press. p. 86. ISBN0-271-01753-8.