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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'".
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.
In 1922, the jazz age was well underway. Chicago and New York City were becoming the most important centres for jazz, and jazz was becoming very profitable for jazz managers such as Paul Whiteman. Whiteman by 1922 managed some 28 different jazz ensembles on the East Coast of the United States, earning over a $1,000,000 in 1922. [1]
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1930. Musicians born that year included Ornette Coleman , Herbie Mann , Helen Merrill , Sonny Rollins , Ray Charles and Clifford Brown .
Swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw.
1935 in music: Standards: List of 1930s jazz standards: ... This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1935. Events. The beginning of the “Swing Era”.
1938 in music: Standards: List of 1930s jazz standards: See also: 1937 in jazz – 1939 in jazz ... This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1938. [1]
1930s in jazz: Music: 1933 in music: Standards: ... This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1933. [1] Events. Louis Armstrong goes on a tour to Europe.