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Post by andie on Dec 1, 2017 10:08:46 GMT
Events in Music
1917-02-26 1st jazz records recorded - "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" and "Livery Stable Blues" by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company
1917-03-07 1st jazz record record released on a 78 by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company ("Dixie Jazz Band One Step," one side "Livery Stable Blues" other)
1917-05-30 Jazz standard "Dark Town Strutters Ball" by Original Dixieland Jass Band first recorded 1927-10-06 "The Jazz Singer", directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, released, 1st film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928)
1931-03-03 Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
1938-01-16 1st jazz concert held at Carnegie Hall (Benny Goodman)
1938-09-20 Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres
1941-05-13 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
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Post by andie on Dec 2, 2017 7:42:31 GMT
Events in Music
1927-10-06 "The Jazz Singer", directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, released, 1st film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928)
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 138
1868-12-25 Eugenie Besserer, American actress (Jazz Singer), born in Watertown, New York (d. 1934)
1877-09-06 Buddy Bolden, African-American jazz musician, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1931)
1879-10-03 Warner Oland, Swedish actor (The Jazz Singer, Charlie Chan), born in Nyby, Västerbottens län, Sweden (d. 1938)
1885-05-11 Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
1886-04-17 Otto Lederer, Austrian actor (The Jazz Singer), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
1886-05-26 Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson], American-Lithuanian jazz singer and silent actor (Mamie, Swanee), born in Seredžius, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1950) 1890-02-27 Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
1893-03-18 Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
1898-01-07 Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
1898-05-28 Andy Kirk, jazz musician
1900-07-29 Don Redman, American jazz musician and orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), born in Piedmont, West Virginia (d. 1964)
1904-01-12 Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist
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