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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.
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 .
A music group named Ejazz performed the first officially sanctioned jazz music concert in post-revolutionary Iran. [6] They produced jazz fusion, incorporating elements from the indigenous classical music. [6] Rana Farhan, an Iranian jazz and blues singer living in New York, [7] combines classical Persian poetry with modern jazz and blues. [8]
It is the most recorded jazz standard of all time. [2] In the 1930s, swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music. Duke Ellington and his band members composed numerous swing era hits that have become standards: "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (1932), "Sophisticated Lady" (1933) and "Caravan" (1936), among others.
14 – Jimmy Blythe, jazz and boogie woogie pianist (born 1901). July. 4 – Buddie Petit, jazz cornetist (born 1897). [2] 23 – Jimmy Harrison, American jazz trombonist (born 1900). August. 6 – Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer (born 1903). November. 4 – Buddy Bolden, cornetist (born 1877).
The top popular records of 1930 listed below were compiled from Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954, [3] record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified. Numerical rankings are approximate, there were no Billboard charts in 1930, the numbers are only used for a frame of ...
October 12th, Jimmy Wade, jazz trumpeter (born 1895) 26 – Eddie Lang, American guitarist, regarded as Father of Jazz Guitar (born 1902). July. 15 – Freddie Keppard, jazz cornetist (born 1889). September. 30 – William Krell, American bandleader and composer (born 1868).
Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, [1] based on the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz style. Prominent English trad jazz musicians such as Chris Barber , Freddy Randall , Acker Bilk , Kenny Ball , Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine [ 1 ] performed a ...