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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.
Charles Stewart (May 21, 1927 – January 20, 2017) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of jazz singers and musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Earl Hines, and Miles Davis, as well as artists in the R&B and salsa genres. Stewart's photographs have graced more than 2,000 album covers.
Kevin Mahogany (1958–2017) Melissa Manchester (born 1951) Monica Mancini (born 1952) Kitty Margolis (born 1955) Rene Marie (born 1955) Rose Marie (1923–2017) Hannah Marshall (born 1980) Claire Martin (born 1967) Dean Martin (1917–1995) Tony Martin (1913–2012) Al Martino (1927–2009) Johnny Mathis (born 1935) Marilyn Maye (born 1928 ...
“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).
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.
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
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
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.