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The first jazz artist to be given some liberty in choosing his material was Louis Armstrong, whose band helped popularize many of the early standards in the 1920s and 1930s. [3] Some compositions written by jazz artists have endured as standards, including Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Ain't Misbehavin'".
All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-717-2. Brooks, Tim; Spottswood, Richard Keith (2004). Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02850-2. Charters, Samuel Barclay (2008).
Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) [1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.
“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 1920s saw the emergence of many famous women musicians including African-American blues singer Bessie Smith (1894–1937), who inspired singers from later eras, including Billie Holiday (1915–1959) and Janis Joplin (1943–1970). [3] In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were ...
Jutta Hipp piano. Zoot Sims 52nd Street Jazz Fair NYC July 6, 1976 January. 6. Jane Harvey, American singer (died 2013). Leon Abramson or Lee Abrams, American drummer (died 1992). 7 – Dave Schildkraut, American saxophonist (died 1998). 13 – Nat Peck, American trombonist (died 2015). 19 – Don Lang, English trombonist and singer (died 1992).
James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. [1]
3 – Von Freeman, American tenor saxophonist (died 2012). 4 – Stan Hasselgård, Swedish clarinetist (died 1948). 5 – Jim Godbolt, English jazz historian and journalist (died 2013) 15 – Lorraine Gordon, American jazz music advocate, Village Vanguard jazz club (died 2018). [5] 29 – Neal Hefti, American trumpeter and composer (died 2008).