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In 1920, the jazz age was underway and was indirectly fueled by prohibition of alcohol. [5] In Chicago, the jazz scene was developing rapidly, aided by the immigration of over 40 prominent New Orleans jazzmen to the city, continuous throughout much of the 1920s, including The New Orleans Rhythm Kings who began playing at Friar's Inn. [5]
Annette Sanders (born 1937 or 1938) [1] Tommy Sands (born 1937) Natalie Sandtorv (born 1988) Marit Sandvik (born 1956) Diane Schuur (born 1953) Hazel Scott (1920–1981) Jimmy Scott (1925–2014) Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) Janet Seidel (1955–2017) Gunhild Seim (born 1973) Nina Shatskaya (born 1966) Ian Shaw (born 1962) Marlena Shaw (born ...
“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).
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz.
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.
The Jazz Singers: A Smithsonian Collection of Jazz Vocals from 1919-1994 is a box set containing five CDs released by the Smithsonian Institution in 1998. It is organized thematically, rather than chronologically.
January 19 – The Salzburg Festival is revived. [1]September 4 – City of Birmingham Orchestra (England) first rehearses (in a city police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by Appleby Matthews, opens with Granville Bantock's overture Saul; in November it gives its "First Symphony Concert" when Edward Elgar conducts a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall.
1 – Kathy Stobart, English saxophonist (died 2014). 2 – Frank Holder, Guyanese singer and percussionist (died 2017). 11 – Emil Mangelsdorff, German saxophonist (died 2022). 14 – Gene Ammons, American tenor saxophonist (died 1974). 18 – Leo Parker, American saxophonist (died 1962). 20 – Henri Renaud, French pianist (died 2002). 21