AOS3 Traditional Music
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Updated: 2 Oct 2017
A timeline to scope the time period surrounding AOS3
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Afro-American capella group,
the Fisk Jubilee Singers,
visited the UK on a
fundraising tour and
was asked to sing for
Queen Victoria.New Orleans city council
establishes "Congo Square"
as an official site for slave
music and dance.The first Africans are
sold into slavery in America.American Pianist Tommy Turpin
writes Harlem Rag,
the first known
ragtime composition.American Pianist Scott Joplin
publishes his first
two rags.American Cornetist Buddy
Bolden forms his band.The first piano rags
appear in print.Ragtime grows in popularity.American Jazz Pianist, Scott Joplin's
Maple Leaf Rag is
published and sells
over 100,000 copies.American bandleader Duke Ellington is bornCharles Booth's performance
of J. Bodewalt Lange's
Creole Blues is recorded for
the new Victor label.
This is the first acoustic
recording of ragtime to
be made commercially availableThe American Federation of
Musicians (the musicians union)
votes to suppress ragtime.American trumpet player
Louis Armstrong is bornLincoln Park is opened in
New Orleans as a center
for ragtime and early
jazz performances.American Jazz Pianist, Scott Joplin, publishes
The Entertainer: a Ragtime Two-Step,
which would become a
popular hit nearly 70 years later.American Pianist Jelly Roll Morton
claims to have invented
jazz in this year.American Cornetist Buddy Bolden
begins to develop a reputation
in New Orleans for playing
music that fuses elements of
blues and ragtime.American Tenor saxophonist
Coleman Hawkins is born.A black newspaper in
Indianapolis releases
a statement in reaction
to racist songs popular
during this period:
"Composers should not
set music to a set of
words that are a direct
insult to the colored race."American Pianist Jelly Roll Morton
composes
King Porter Stomp.American Cornetist Buddy Bolden
is committed to a
mental institution without
having ever recorded any music.American Pianist
Scott Joplin moves
to New York.American Composer and
conductor
James Reese Europe
founds the Clef Club,
an association for
Black musicians based in New York.American Pianist
Pianist Scott Joplin
publishes his opera
Treemonisha.The word "jazz" first appears in print.James Reese Europe records
ragtime arrangements in New York
with the first black ensemble to be
recorded.Pianist W.C. Handy
writes St. Louis Blues.American Trumpeter King Oliver
forms a band in
New Orleans with
American Clarinetist Sidney Bechet.American
Vocalist Billie Holiday
is born.American Composer
Scott Joplin dies.The classic era of ragtime ends.The Original Dixieland Jass Band
(an all white group)
makes the first jazz recording,
Livery Stable Blues,
and also becomes the
first jazz group to appear
on film in the movie,
The Good for Nothing.Jazz musicians begin to leave the city of New Orleans for the North.American Trumpet player
Dizzy Gillespie is bornAmerican Pianist
Thelonious Monk is bornAmerican Bandleader
King Oliver leaves
New Orleans for ChicagoNew Orleans trombonist
Kid Ory moves to
Los Angeles and forms a
band, bringing jazz to new ears.American Composer
James Reese Europe
is murdered by a
fellow bandmate after
an argument.The town of Zion,
Illinois bans jazz
performances, labeling
them "sinful."Composer Pianist James P. Johnson
records The Harlem Strut and
Carolina Shout, the earliest
stride piano recordings,
in New York.American Pianist
William "Count" Basie
makes his first recordings.Ragtime publisher John Stark
goes out of business
signifying the end of ragtime.American Trumpet player
Louis Armstrong
moves to Chicago to
join King Oliver's Band.American Blues singer Bessie Smith
makes her first recording,
Down-hearted Blues,
which sells a million copies
in six months and leads
to her signing a nine-year
contract with Columbia Records.American Cornetist King Oliver's band,
which includes Louis Armstrong
on trumpet and Armstrong's
wife Lil Hardin on piano,
makes its first recordings,
including Dippermouth Blues.American Pianist Jelly Roll Morton,
now based in Chicago,
makes several recordings
including solo pieces such as
King Porter Stomp and
performances with the
New Orleans Rhythm Kings.American Bandleader
Duke Ellington makes
his first recordings as
leader of the Washingtonians.American Composer
George Gershwin debuts
Rhapsody in Blue along with
Paul Whiteman's band.American Trumpet Player
Louis Armstrong moves to
New York City to work with
Fletcher Henderson.American Blues singer Bessie Smith
and trumpeter Louis Armstrong
record the classic version of
W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues
for Columbia Records.American Trumpet Player
Louis Armstrong makes
his first recordings with
his group, the Hot Five.American Pianist
James P. Johnson records
Charleston, which becomes
a huge hit and gives rise to a
dance of the same name.Electrical recordings are
introduced.American Trumpeter Louis
Armstrong has a
huge hit and pioneers scat singing
with his first recorded original
composition, Heebie Jeebies,
featuring his Hot Five.American Pianist Jelly
Roll Morton's
group the Red Hot Peppers
records in Chicago.American Trumpet Player
Miles Davis is bornAmerican Saxophonist
John Coltrane is bornAmerican Trumpet Player
Louis Armstrong makes his
first recordings with his
Hot Seven, which was the
Hot Five plus drums and tuba.American bandleader Duke Ellington
begins his residency at the
Cotton Club in Harlem,
increasing the band from
six to eleven members.American Clarinetist Benny Goodman
makes his first recordings.Pianist Fats Waller participates
in a mixed-race recording
session in which he is forced
to play behind a screen to
separate him from the
white musicians.The film St. Louis Blues about the life
of pianist W.C. Handy is released,
featuring blues singer Bessie Smith,
Handy as musical director,
and pianist James P. Johnson's band.American Free jazz
saxophonist Ornette
Coleman is born.American Cornetist Bix
Beiderbecke dies of
pneumonia at age 38.American Cornetist
Buddy Bolden diesRCA demonstrates the
first 33 1/3 rmp
long-playing disc.American Bandleader
Duke Ellington records
It Don't Mean a Thing
(If it Ain't' Got That Swing),
the first jazz composition to
use swing in the title.American Clarinetist
Benny Goodman
begins his career
with the Fletcher
Henderson Orchestra.American Pianist Art Tatum
records his first piano solo,
Tiger Rag, which is
thought by many to be a duet.American Singer Bessie Smith
makes her last recordings.American Singer
Billie Holiday makes
her first recording.Fletcher Henderson's
band folds due to
financial difficulties
and Henderson sells
his arrangements to
Benny Goodman, who
performs with his band
at Billy Rose's Music Hall in New York.The journal Down Beat:
the Contemporary Music
Magazine is launched in Chicago.The Quintette du Hot Club de France,
featuring guitarist Django Reinhardt
and violinist Stephane Grappelli,
gives its first public performance
at the Ecole Normale de Musique
in Paris.American Vocalist Ella Fitzgerald
makes her first recordings.American Clarinetist
Benny Goodman records
Fletcher Henderson's
arrangement of Jelly Roll Morton's
King Porter Stomp.Benny Goodman begins
recording with a racially
integrated trio that
includes pianist Teddy
Wilson and drummer
Gene Krupa.George Gershwin's
three-act opera Porgy and Bess
opens at the Alvin Theater in New YorkAmerican Vocalist
Billie Holiday makes
several recordings
with pianist Teddy Wilson,
including What a Little
Moonlight Can Do.American Vocalist
Billie Holiday and
Teddy Wilson record I
Cried for You, which goes
on to sell 15,000 copies.American Pianist Nat King Cole
makes his first recordings
with the Solid Swingers,
a band led by his brother,
Eddie Cole, a bassist.American Bandleader
Benny Goodman,
adding vibraphonist Lionel Hampton
to his trio, records Moonglow,
which starts a series of
popular quartet recordings.American Bandleader
Duke Ellington
provides music for the
Marx Brothers movie
A Day at the Races.American Vocalist
Billie Holiday makes her
debut with Count Basie's band.American Saxophonist
Coleman Hawkins records
with Django Reinhardt
and saxophonist
Benny Carter in Paris.American Bandleader
Duke Ellington records
Caravan, by Juan Tizol.American Bandleader
Count Basie and his band
broadcasts from the
Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.Count Basie's band records
One O'clock Jump, which
becomes their signature tune.American Bandleader
Benny Goodman records
Sing, Sing, Sing.American Composer
George Gershwin dies of a
brain tumor.American Vocalist
Bessie Smith dies in
a car accident.American Trumpeter
Dizzy Gillespie makes his
first recordingsAmerican Bandleader
Benny Goodman's
band hosts a sold out
concert at Carnegie Hall
which features a jazz history
element and a jam session
with members of Duke Ellington’s
and Count Basie's bands.
After the Goodman concert,
Count Basie's band and
Chick Webb's band have
an informal competition
at the Savoy Ballroom.American Cornetist King Oliver
dies after years in
poverty working as a
pool-room janitor.American Bandleader
Benny Goodman's
band records Bach Goes to Town:
Prelude and Fugue in Swing,
which combines elements of
classical music and swing.A new band led by
American Trombonist
Glenn Miller gains
notoriety through
regular radio broadcasts.American Vocalist
Billie Holiday records
Strange Fruit, with
controversial lyrics
regarding lynchings
which causes it to be
banned from several radio stations.American Bandleader
Glenn Miller records
the hugely successful
In The Mood.American Bandleader
Benny Goodman
hires guitarist Charlie Christian.Lester Young records
Lester Leaps In with Count Basie.American Saxophonist
Coleman Hawkins
records Body and Soul,
setting a new standard
for improvisational
sophistication on the saxophone.American Singer
Ma Rainey dies.A young American Saxophonist,
Charlie Parker moves to New York to
pursue musicBlue note records is foundedJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy
was elected as presidentPainter Pablo Picasso's first exhibit is held in ParisU.S. President William McKinley is assassinated.Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.The Wright brothers make their first successful flight.Scientist Albert Einstein presents his special theory of relativityPizza is introduced at Lombardi's in New York.The first wireless broadcast of classical music is produced in New York.Robert Peary reaches the North Pole.Alcohol is banned in Tennessee.Hawaii becomes official US terratoryThe Electric Theatre, the first movie theatre in the US opened in LAThe Ice cream cone was inventedAlcohol is banned in in North Carolina and GeorgiaMark Twain dies.The Titanic sinks.60-floor Woolworth Building
is completed,
making it the largest
building in the world.Vernon and Irene Castle,
a married dance team,
begins performing floor
shows at James Europe's shows.Scott Joplin stages Treemonisha
himself and the show fails.The U.S. Navy closes New Orleans's Storyville red-light district.Revolution occurs in Russia.The U.S. enters World War I.Labor and housing tensions
lead to race riots in
Chicago, East St. Louis,
Washington, D.C. and other cities,
killing hundreds and burning
thousands out of their homes.Marie Curie isolates radium.Civil War occurs in Mexico.The Titanic sinks.Woodrow Wilson becomes President.World War I begins in Europe.The Great Migration begins;
over the next 65 years
6 million Blacks will leave
the South for northern cities,
the mid-west and California,
carrying their musical influences with them.Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity.World War I ends.winton Churchill becomes pm of BritainJapan bombs Pearl Harbour and HawaiiPianist Oscar Peterson
makes his first recordings.Thelonious Monk is arrested for possession of
drugs and banned from performing in New York
night clubs for six yearsThe Korean war beginsGeorge Orwell diesNATO is formed.New York police strip thelonious <monkThe town of Zion,
Illinois bans jazz performances,
labeling them "sinful."The first network
radio broadcast
occurs in the U.S.Earthquake in Tokyo
kills 100,000.Calvin Coolidge
becomes President.Periods
trumpeter, Cootie Williams, leaves Duke
Ellingtons band and was replaced by drum,peter and violinist, Ray Nance.Cootie Williams forms his own orchestra, which eventually employs musicians such as Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Charlie Parker and bud powell
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