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The swing era lasted until the mid-1940s, and produced popular tunes such as Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" (1940) and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train" (1941). When the big bands struggled to keep going during World War II , a shift was happening in jazz in favor of smaller groups.
Billboard Hot 100 & Best Sellers in Stores number-one singles by decade Before August 1958 1940–1949 1950–1958 After August 1958 1958–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029 US Singles Chart Billboard magazine Billboard number-one singles chart (which preceded the Billboard Hot 100 chart), which was updated weekly by the Billboard magazine, was the ...
The swing era lasted until the mid-1940s, and produced popular tunes such as Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" (1940) and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train" (1941). When the big bands struggled to keep going during World War II , a shift was happening in jazz in favor of smaller groups.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1940. Events. March. ... Top hits of the year. On February 8, 1940, ...
Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s (1987) Hennessey, Thomas J. From Jazz to Swing: African-Americans and Their Music, 1890–1935 (1994). Schuller, Gunther. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945 (1991) Spring, Howard. "Swing and the Lindy Hop: Dance, Venue, Media, and Tradition".
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
Several factors led to the demise of the swing era: the 1942–1944 musicians' strike from August 1942 to November 1944 (the union that most jazz musicians belonged to told its members not to record until the record companies agreed to pay them each time their music was played on the radio), the earlier ban of ASCAP songs from radio stations ...
November 13 – Première of the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia in the United States set to classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski. November 23 – Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Quintet is premièred at the Moscow Conservatory with the composer at the piano. December 6 – Arnold Schoenberg's Violin Concerto is premièred.