1922 in jazz explained
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1922.
Musicians born that year included Carmen McRae and Charles Mingus.
Jazz scene
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]
Despite its popularity, as a form of music Jazz was still not appreciated by many critics, including Anne Faulkner who passed off jazz as "a destructive dissonance", asking if the music "put the sin in syncopation"and Henry van Dyke who described jazz as "an unmitigated cacophony, a species of music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.[2]
Chicago in 1922 in particular was attracting bands such as Joe "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band at the Lincoln Gardens, joined by Louis Armstrong on August 8, 1922, and the Austin High Gang featuring Frank Teschemacher (clarinet), Jimmy McPartland (cornet), Richard McPartland (guitar and banjo) and Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (saxophone) who began playing at the Friar's Inn in Chicago.[1] Meanwhile, on the New York scene, Duke Ellington arrived in New York City with Sonny Greer and banjo player Elmer Snowden and met his idol James P. Johnson, Fats Waller who had begun to make a name for himself with his piano rolls and Willie "The Lion" Smith.[1] Coleman Hawkins, already well noted for his high level of profiency joined Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds and were later hired in New York by Fletcher Henderson.[1]
Jazz began to emerge in the Soviet Union with the "First Eccentric Orchestra of the Russian Federated Socialist Republic – Valentin Parnakh's Jazz Band ".
Standards
See also: List of 1920s jazz standards.
Births
- January
- 3 – Geezil Minerve, Cuban-born alto saxophonist and flautist (died 1992).
- 4
- 15 – Thelma Carpenter, American singer and actress (died 1997).
- 16 – Lina Romay, Mexican-American actress and singer (died 2010).
- 18 – Johnny Costa, American pianist (died 1996).
- 20 – Ray Anthony, American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.
- 25 – Jimmy Wyble, American guitarist (died 2010).
- 26 – Page Cavanaugh, American pianist and singer (died 2008).
- 29 – Jack Sels, Belgian saxophonist (died 1970).
- February
- March
- April
- 1 – Duke Jordan, American pianist (died 2006).
- 8 – Carmen McRae, American singer, pianist and composer (died 1994).
- 17 – Paul Smith, American pianist (died 2013).
- 19 – Glauco Masetti, Italian jazz reedist (died 2001).
- 21 – Mundell Lowe, American guitarist, composer, and conductor (died 2017).
- 22
- 24 – Aaron Bell, American upright bassist (died 2003).
- 26 – Dorothy Donegan, American pianist (died 1998).
- 27 – Tale Ognenovski, Macedonian multi-instrumentalist (died 2012).
- 29 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian and American harmonica player and guitarist (died 2016).[3]
- May
- June
- 5 – Specs Powell, drummer (died 2007).
- 7 – Beryl Booker, American swing pianist (died 1978).
- 9 – Gösta Theselius, Swedish arranger, composer, film scorer, pianist, and saxophonist (died 1976).
- 15 – Jaki Byard, American multi-instrumentalist (died 1999).
- 19
- 24 – Manny Albam, baritone saxophonist (died 2001).
- 25 – Johnny Smith, American guitarist (died 2013).
- 29 – Ralph Burns, American pianist, composer, and arranger (died 2001).
- July
- August
- September
- October
- 3 – Von Freeman, American tenor saxophonist (died 2012).
- 4 – Stan Hasselgård, Swedish clarinetist (died 1948).
- 5 – Jim Godbolt, English jazz historian and journalist (died 2013)
- 15 – Lorraine Gordon, American jazz music advocate, Village Vanguard jazz club (died 2018).[5]
- 29 – Neal Hefti, American trumpeter and composer (died 2008).
- 30 – Illinois Jacquet, American tenor saxophonist (died 2004).
- 31 – Ted Nash, American saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist (died 2011).
- November
- December
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: History of Jazz Time Line: 1922 . All About Jazz . December 2, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110415042140/https://www.allaboutjazz.com/jazz1922.htm . April 15, 2011 .
- Book: Riffs & choruses: a new jazz anthology. Clark, Andrew. Continuum International Publishing Group. 2001. 16. 0-8264-4756-2.
- News: Toots Thielemans, Jazz Harmonica Player, Is Dead at 94 . Peter . Keepnews . . A20 . 2016-08-22 . 2016-11-06.
- News: Monica Lewis, Actress Who Sang in Chiquita Banana Cartoons, Dies at 93 . . 2015-06-12 . 2016-04-15.
- News: Lorraine Gordon, Keeper of the Village Vanguard Flame, Dies at 95 . Tim . Weiner . 2018-06-09 . 2018-08-06 . . https://archive.today/20180610151251/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/arts/music/lorraine-gordon-dies.html . 2018-06-10 . live.