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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.
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984), better known as Bricktop, was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the famous nightclub "Chez Bricktop" in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences).
“One can plausibly argue that the debate over jazz was just one of many that characterized American social discourse in the 1920s” (Ogren 3). In 1919, jazz was being described to white people as “a music originating about the turn of the twentieth century in New Orleans that featured wind instruments exploiting new timbres and performance techniques and improvisation” (Murchison 97).
Marion Harris (born Mary Ellen Harrison; March 25, 1897 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the late 1910s and the 1920s.She was the first widely-known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.
10 – Linda Hayes, American singer (died 1998). 11 – Marky Markowitz, American trumpeter (died 1986). 12 – Bob Dorough, American pianist, composer and vocalese singer (died 2018). [4] 25 – Paul Bacon, American album cover designer (died 2015). Unknown date. Helen Jones Woods, American trombonist, International Sweethearts of Rhythm (died ...
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Amru Sani, Indian-Jamaican singer and actor (died 2000). Mal Waldron, American pianist (died 2002). 27 – Tony Crombie, English drummer and pianist (died 1999). September. 1 – Art Pepper, American saxophonist (died 1982). 2 – Sherwood Johnson, American jazz patron (died 1998). 13 – Mel Tormé, American singer (died 1999). 16