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August. The American Federation of Musicians president James C. Petrillo initiated a ban on recording, in hopes of coercing record companies into returning part of their profits to the union to be used for special concerts and projects.
On August 1, 1942, the American Federation of Musicians, at the instigation of union president James C. Petrillo, began a strike against the major American record companies because of disagreements over royalty payments. Beginning on midnight, July 31, 1942, no union musician could make commercial recordings for any commercial record company. [1]
Listed below are executive orders numbered 6071–9537 and presidential proclamations signed by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945). He issued 3721 executive orders. [ 8 ] His executive orders are also listed on Wikisource , along with his presidential proclamations .
Jazz musician Jimmy Dorsey from the film The Fabulous Dorseys (1947). The Fabulous Dorseys is released, a fictionalized biographical film that tells the story of the Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
Although in recent years, new evidence has appeared in jazz historian Vic Hobson's 2014 Creating Jazz Counterpoint. New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues , in which is stated that Buddy Bolden's band member Willy Cornish — who is seen on the only surviving picture of the Bolden Band — affirmed Bunk Johnson as a member of the early ...
He was born in Newport, Kentucky, United States. [3] Kirk grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he was tutored by Wilberforce Whiteman, Paul Whiteman's father. [4] Kirk started his musical career playing with George Morrison's band, but then went on to join Terrence Holder's Dark Clouds of Joy. [3]
David Stone Martin, ca. April 1947, photo by William P. Gottlieb. David Stone Martin, born David Livingstone Martin (June 13, 1913 – March 6, 1992 in New London, Connecticut) [1] was an American artist best known for his illustrations on jazz record albums. [2] [3]
Barnet was born in New York City, the son of Charline (Daly) and Willard Barnet. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His parents divorced when he was two, and he was raised by his mother and her grandparents. His grandfather was Charles Frederick Daly, a vice-president for the New York Central Railroad , banker, and businessman.