i just need a few important events that occured in relation to music during the jazz age (1918-1929)
things like important records or performances 1918 Trumpeter King Oliver leaves New Orleans for Chicago. Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins tours with blues singer Mamie Smith and begins to develop a unique style of playing
1919 The Original Dixieland Jass Band performs in London. Will Marion Cook tours Europe with his Southern Syncopated Orchestra which includes clarinetist Sidney Bechet. After the tour Bechet stays in Europe. New Orleans trombonist Kid Ory moves to Los Angeles and forms a band, bringing jazz to new ears
1920 Blues singer Mamie Smith records Crazy Blues, making it the first blues recording by a black singer. Pianist and composer Duke Ellington forms a dance band in Washington DC with drummer Sonny Greer. Charlie Parker is born
1921 The town of Zion, Illinois bans jazz performances, labeling them "sinful." Pianist James P. Johnson records The Harlem Strut and Carolina Shout, the earliest stride piano recordings, in New York
1924 Duke Ellington makes his first recordings as leader of the Washingtonians. George Gershwin debuts Rhapsody in Blue along with Paul Whiteman's band. Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, make their first recordings
1925 Blues singer Bessie Smith and trumpeter Louis Armstrong record the classic version of W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues for Columbia Records. Louis Armstrong makes his first recordings with his group, the Hot Five. James P. Johnson records Charleston, which becomes a huge hit and gives rise to a dance of the same name. Electrical recordings are introduced. The Original Dixieland Jass Band disbands. Pianist Fats Waller gives lessons to pianist Count Basie
1926 Trumpeter Louis Armstrong has a huge hit and pioneers scat singing with his first recorded original composition, Heebie Jeebies, featuring his Hot Five. Pianist Jelly Roll Morton's group the Red Hot Peppers records in Chicago. Bandleader Fletcher Henderson's group records with saxophonist Coleman Hawkins
1927 Louis Armstrong makes his first recordings with his Hot Seven, which was the Hot Five plus drums and tuba. Jean Goldkette's Orchestra is dissolved. Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke joins Paul Whiteman's band. Pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington begins his residency at the Cotton Club in Harlem, increasing the band from six to eleven members
1928 Clarinetist Benny Goodman makes his first recordings
1929 Pianist Fats Waller participates in a mixed-race recording session in which he is forced to play behind a screen to separate him from the white musicians. The film St. Louis Blues about the life of pianist W.C. Handy is released, featuring blues singer Bessie Smith, Handy as musical director, and pianist James P. Johnson's band In 1924 George Gershwin performed his Rhapsody in Blue at Aolean Hall. In 1925 he performed his Concerto in F. in short, point form,
Scott Joplin- ragtime,
Paul Whiteman- Japanese sandman
Billy Holliday- god bless the child,
Max roach, - Mr Hi-hat |
