1926 in jazz explained
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1926.
Musicians born that year included Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
Events
- American author and dramatist Edna Ferber publishes the novel Show Boat, popularizing life in the Southern United States. Although Ferber never visited the south and invented her story from fictional minstrel themes, the real American Show Boats were steeped in the black Riverboat Jazz music of Mississippi and the Ohio Valley.[1]
- American ragtime jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Jelly Roll Morton is signed by Victor and begins recording with the Red Hot Peppers, featuring Kid Ory, Omer Simeon, George Mitchell, Johnny St. Cyr, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, and Baby Dodds.
- Duke Ellington and his band record "East St Louis Toodle-o" on November 29.
- The Jean Goldkette band with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer start playing the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan in early October.[2]
Record releases
Standards
See also: List of 1920s jazz standards.
Music criticism
- August: David Stanley Smith (1877–1949) Professor of Music at Yale University, dismisses Jazz as a serious art form in The Musician.[7]
- November: Andrè Coeuroy (1895–1980) and Andrè Schaeffner publish Le Jazz.[8]
- Jacques Émile Blanche (1861–1942) criticizes Jazz music and dance in La Revue nouvelle as a foreign import that threatens the nationality of France.[9]
Deaths
- Unknown date
- Edmund Jenkins, African-American composer during the Harlem Renaissance (born 1894).
Births
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- 3
- 4 – Sonny Payne, American drummer (died 1979).
- 7 – Herbie Steward, American saxophonist (died 2003).
- 15 – Bonnie Wetzel, American upright bassist (died 1965).
- 18 – Lou Bennett, American organist (died 1997).
- 22 – Elek Bacsik, Hungarian-American guitarist and violinist (died 1993).
- 24 – Stan Barker, English pianist (died 1997).
- 25 – Milt Bernhart, American trombonist (died 2004).
- 26 – Miles Davis,[12] American trumpeter (died 1991).
- 27 – Bud Shank, American saxophonist and flautist (died 2009).
- 28 – Russ Freeman, American pianist and composer (died 2002).
- 30 – Tony Terran, American trumpet player (died 2017).
- June
- July
- August
- 3 – Tony Bennett, Italian-American singer (died 2023).
- 5 – Jeri Southern, American pianist and singer (died 1991).
- 8 – Urbie Green, American trombonist (died 2018).
- 12 – Dave Lee, English pianist, orchestra leader, arranger, songwriter, and film composer.
- 14 – Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist (died 2017).
- 17 – George Melly, English singer (died 2007).
- 20 – Frank Rosolino, American trombonist (died 1978).
- 22 – Bob Flanigan, American vocalist (died 2011).
- 28
- September
- October
- November
- December
- Unknown date
- Jimmy "Jammin'" Smith, American trumpeter (died 1953).
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Kenney, William Howland . 2005 . Jazz on the River . University of Chicago Press . 0-226-43733-7.
- Web site: History of Jazz Timeline: 1926. All About. Jazz. All About Jazz. 20 December 2021.
- Ward, Geoffrey C., "Jazz: a history of America's music." Knopf, 2000. Pages 130, 131.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=kfFgNABSuuUC&q=jazz+history
- https://books.google.com/books?id=sFU-hbUOEJ0C&dq=%22jelly+roll+morton%22+1926+%22red+hot+peppers&pg=PA15
- Ward, Geoffrey C., "Jazz: a history of America's music." Knopf, 2000. Pages 136-137.
- Book: Lopes, Paul Douglas . 2002 . The Rise of a Jazz Art World . limited . . 82 . 0-521-00039-4.
- Book: Porter, Lewis . 1997 . Jazz: A Century of Change . Schirmer Books . 0-02-864713-0 .
- Book: Blake, Jody . 1999 . Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930 . . 86 . 0-271-01753-8.
- Web site: Rob Adams. Obituary - Randy Weston, jazz musician. The Glasgow Herald. September 6, 2018.
- News: Whitney Balliett, Jazz Critic, Is Dead at 80. . Ben . Ratliff . . 2007-01-14 . 2016-02-27.
- Book: Chambers, J. K. . 1998 . Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis . Da Capo Press . 0-306-80849-8.
- Book: Porter, Lewis. Lewis Porter
. Lewis Porter . John Coltrane: His Life and Music. University of Michigan Press. 1999. 0-472-08643-X.
- News: Chuck Berry, Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer, Dies at 90 . Jon . Pareles . . 2017-03-18 . 2017-04-17.