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The most famous jazz versions were recorded by Benny Goodman in 1936 and 1947. [91] Fletcher Henderson played it in 1934 in the Harlem Opera House as the "national anthem of Harlem". [92] "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" [46] [93] is a song from the Broadway show The New Moon, composed by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
This resulted in many black jazz musicians in 1920 having to defend their music against people who were trying to run them out of popular music and entertainment venues. After racially motivated violence broke out in Chicago in 1919, the local government created the Chicago Commission on Race Relations to hopefully help with the animosity ...
This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. ... (1920–2010) [1] Banjo. Double ...
The most famous jazz versions were made by Benny Goodman in 1936 and 1947. [138] Fletcher Henderson played it in 1934 in the Harlem Opera House as the "national anthem of Harlem". [139] "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" [8] [140] is a song from the Broadway show The New Moon, composed by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
From 1919, Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band of musicians from New Orleans played in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where in 1922 they became the first black jazz band of New Orleans origin to make recordings. [30] The year also saw the first recording by Bessie Smith, the most famous of the 1920s blues singers.
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. [1] [2] Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, [3] a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies.
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (/ ˈ b aɪ d ər b ɛ k / BY-dər-bek; [1] March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer.. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like ...
This is an alphabetical list of jazz trombonists for whom Wikipedia has articles. ... Britt Woodman (1920–2000) Trummy Young (1912–1984) Jerry Zigmont (born 1956)