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Louis Armstrong recorded the first jazz version in 1930. Benny Goodman's 1936 recording, sung by Lionel Hampton, revived interest in the song; the following year it was recorded by Count Basie and Quintette du Hot Club de France. [16] "Georgia on My Mind" [8] [11] [19] is a song composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Stuart Gorrell.
She was featured with the Whiteman band in the 20th Century-Fox 1935 film Thanks a Million. She left Whiteman's band in 1937 and worked as a solo act, recording for Liberty Music Shop Records . In the late 1930s, she led a male big band and recorded for Varsity Records.
Mildred Bailey known as "The Queen of Swing," Bailey had early ties to Dixieland through her work with jazz bands. In the late 1940s, there was a revival of Dixieland, harking back to the contrapuntal New Orleans style. This was driven in large part by record company reissues of jazz classics by the Oliver, Morton, and Armstrong bands of the 1930s.
Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the most popular dance bands in the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. His band included trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie , Jonah Jones , and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham , saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry , guitarist Danny Barker , bassist Milt Hinton , and ...
Erenberg, Lewis A. Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture (1998) Gitler, Ira. 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 ...
3 – Nancy Harrow, American jazz singer and songwriter. 7 – George Girard, American trumpeter (died 1957). 8 – Pepper Adams, American baritone saxophonist and composer (died 1986). 28 – John Mayer, Indian composer (died 2004). 30 – Clifford Brown, American trumpeter (died 1956). 31 – Booker Ervin, American saxophonist (died 1970 ...
The 1930s belonged to popular swing big bands, 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 , Harry James , Jimmie ...
Arthur Ryerson (May 22, 1913 – October 27, 2004) was a jazz guitarist who emerged in the 1930s, playing acoustic and electric guitar, as well as the banjo. He played with jazz orchestras and bands in the 1930s and the 1940s. In the early 1950s, he played on several early rock and roll recordings of Bill Haley. His daughter is flautist Ali ...