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1867 |
The St. Paulus Lutheran church in SF was founded. The original church building burned down in 1995. In 2007 it moved from Gough and Eddy to join quarters with the St. Coltrane African Orthodox Church on Fillmore. Links: USA, SF, Jazz 
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1885 May 26 |
Al Jolson (d.1950), American jazz singer and silent film actor, was born in Seredzius, Lithuania as Asa Yoelson. His father Morris was a rabbi and a cantor and so Asa started singing early, alongside his elder brother Harry and two elder sisters. In 1894 the family set off for America in search of a new life. Links: USA, Lithuania, Jews, Jazz
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1885 Oct 20 |
Ferdinand Lamenthe, aka Jelly Roll Morton (d.1941), jazz pianist, composer and singer, was born in New Orleans. He was one of the first to orchestrate jazz music and disputed W.C. Handy's claim to be the originator of jazz and blues. He became famous at an early age for his classically informed improvisational piano playing often in brothels and other non-traditional settings. With his Red Hot Peppers in the 1920s, he pioneered the early jazz practice of reorchestrating and improvising upon well-known standards. He also wrote many enduring jazz tunes including the ‘London Rag’ and the ‘Jelly Roll Blues’. Links: USA, Louisiana, Blues, Jazz, Piano
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1899 Apr 29 |
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (d.1974), jazz composer and musician was born in Washington DC. Links: USA, Jazz, DC
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1901 Aug 4 |
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, (Daniel Louis Armstrong, d.1971) jazz trumpet player, was born in New Orleans. He developed a vocal style called "scat singing"; was a band leader, film star and worldwide celebrity; his career spanned five decades. His autobiography “Satchmo” was published in 1954. "I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you." Laurence Bergreen in 1997 wrote a biography titled: "Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life." Links: USA, Louisiana, Jazz, Biography
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1915 Jun 9 |
Les Paul (d.2009), American guitarist and electric guitar innovator, was born. Links: USA, Jazz, Pop&Rock
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1917 |
The SF Chronicle first mentioned the word jazz as a music form when the Techau Tavern at Eddy and Powell started advertising a jazz program. Links: USA, SF, Jazz
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1919 May 9 |
James Reese Europe (b.1881), jazz band leader and founder of the NYC Clef Club, died after he was stabbed during the intermission of a performance at Mechanic’s Hall in Boston. Europe led the Clef Club Symphony Orchestra before WW I and during the war led a US Army band in the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment, which was attached to the French Army. In 1995 Reid Badger authored “A Life in Ragtime,” a biography of Europe. Links: USA, NYC, Massachusetts, Jazz, Biography
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1921 Mar |
San Francisco police closed down Sid Purcell’s So Different Club, a 20-cents-a-dance joint with upstairs bedrooms, located at 520 Pacific St. Louis Sidney Le Protti (1886-1958) and his So Different Orchestra had been playing jazz there since the club opened after the 1906 earthquake. Links: USA, SF, Sex, Jazz, Dance
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1922 Mar 24 |
The New Orleans school board said that it has decided that jazz music and jazz dancing would be abolished in the public schools. The order was rescinded in 2022. Links: USA, Louisiana, Jazz
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1923 |
Darius Milhaud premiered "La Creation du Monde" (the Creation of the World) with 19 members of the Orchestre du Theatre du Champs-Elyssees. Fernand Leger designed the décor and costumes. The jazz age ballet was created by Milhaud, Blaise Cendrars and Jean Borlin. Links: France, Jazz, Dance
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1925 May |
Lee Morse (1897-1954), US jazz and blues singer and songwriter, recorded her hit song Ukulele Lady. Her most popular years were in the 1920s and early 1930s, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death. Links: USA, Blues, Jazz, Hawaii
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1926 Sep 23 |
John Coltrane (d.1967), influential jazz saxophonist, was born in North Carolina. He greatly influenced jazz from the `60s to the present day despite his untimely. He moved to Philadelphia after high school where he studied music and later worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Hodges and others. Links: USA, North Carolina, Jazz
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1930 Sep 7 |
Billy Hajek, sailor and jazzman, passed the world’s record of 72 hours of continuous piano playing at Clay & Co. at Sutter and Kearny streets in SF. Links: SF, Jazz, Piano
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1934 |
Ina Ray Hutton formed her first all-female jazz orchestra, Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears. Links: USA, California, Jazz
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1938 |
Alan Lomax invited Jelly Roll Morton (1885-1941) to record music and memories at the Library of Congress. In 2005 Rounder Records published a complete, 9-hour set of the recordings on 7 CDs plus an additional CD of Lomax interviews with contemporaries of Morton. Links: USA, Jazz
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1939 |
Charles Edward Smith authored “Jazzmen.” Links: USA, Jazz, Books
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1939 |
Lena Horne (1917-2010) performed in the Broadway revue “Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1939.” The revue ran for 9 performances. Links: USA, Filmstar, Jazz
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1940 |
The Ink Spots made a hit with their song Java Jive: “I like coffee, and I like tea, I love the java jive and it loves me." Links: Jazz, Pop&Rock
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1941 Jul 10 |
Jelly Roll Morton (b.1885 as Ferdinand Joseph Le Menthe), jazz musician, died in Los Angeles, Ca. He was a virtuoso pianist, bandleader and composer who some call the first true composer of jazz music. Morton was a colorful character who liked to generate publicity for himself by bragging. His business card referred to him as the "Creator of Jazz and Swing." He was born September 20, 1890 in the Creole of Color community in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. He took the name "Morton" by Anglicizing the name of his step-father, Mouton. In 2003 Howard Reich and William Gaines authored "Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton." Links: USA, Louisiana, Jazz
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1941 |
Gene Kruppa, jazz drummer, hired Anita O'Day (1919-2006) as his vocalist. Links: USA, Jazz
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1942 Jul 12 |
Richard Stoltzman, classical and jazz clarinetist (Tashi), was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Links: USA, Jazz, Nebraska
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1945 May 7 |
Cornelius Bumpus (d.2004), keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute), was born In Dallas, Texas. Links: USA, Jazz, Texas
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1948 |
In NYC a group of young jazz players gathered at the apartment of Gil Evans on West 55th and crafted a music that was later tagged as “the birth of the cool.” Miles Davis led the group that also included Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis and John Carisi. This followed the recent disbanding of band led by Claude Thornhill (d.1965), in which Gill Evans was an arranger. Links: USA, NYC, Jazz
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1949 Jan 22 |
Police broke into Rm. 203 of the Mark Twain Hotel in San Francisco and arrested Billie Holiday (1915-1959) and her manager, John Levy, on charges of possession of opium. Her defense attorney, Jake Erlich, fingered Levy as an informer and persuaded the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. Links: USA, SF, Jazz
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1949 |
In San Francisco Guido Caccienti and Johnny Noga opened the Blackhawk bar on the northeast corner of Turk and Hyde, replacing an older bar named the Stork. It soon gathered renown as a jazz club following an engagement by the Dave Brubeck trio. The club closed in 1963. Links: USA, SF, Jazz
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1950 |
Alan Lomax authored “Mister Jelly Roll” Links: USA, Jazz, Books
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1950 |
Jimbo’s Bop City, an after-hours club in SF, opened at 1690 Post St. Players such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, and Gerry Mulligan played there until it closed in 1965. Links: USA, SF, Jazz
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1953 |
In Los Angeles The Hi-Lo’s, a vocal quartet, formed with Gene Puerling (1929-2008) singing bass-baritone. The group became the most popular jazz-based vocal group of the period. Links: USA, California, Jazz, Pop&Rock
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1953 |
Soupy Sales (1926-2009) began his “Soupy’s On” 5-day-a-week variety show in Detroit on WXYZ-TV. The theme song was Charlie Parker’s "Yardbird Suite." Many jazz giants played on his show but very little film footage survived. His “Lunch with Soupy Sales” went national in October 1959, on the ABC television network. Links: USA, TV, Michigan, Jazz
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1953 |
Jon Hendricks (1921-2017), Jazz singer and songwriter, began collaborating with fellow jazz singer Dave Lambert. They later joined with Annie Ross, a British-born jazz singer and in 1958 recorded the hit album “Sing a Song of Basie.” Links: USA, Jazz
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1954 Dec 16 |
Lee Morse (b.1897), US jazz and blues singer and songwriter, died. Her most popular years were in the 1920s and early 1930s, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death. Her hit songs included “Ukulele Lady” (1925). Links: USA, Blues, Jazz
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1954 |
Misty, written by pianist Errol Garner, was released on his Verve album “Contrasts.” Wyatt “Bull” Ruther (1923-1999) played the bass lines. Links: USA, Jazz, Pop&Rock
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1956 Nov 5 |
Arthur Tatum (Art Tatum, 46), US jazz pianist and composer, died in Los Angeles. Links: USA, California, Jazz, Piano
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1956 |
Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010), jazz singer, recorded her first album, “Affair… a Story of a Girl in Love.” She also appeared in her first film “The Girl Can’t Help It.” Links: USA, Jazz, Film
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1957 Nov 29 |
John Coltrane and the Thelonius Monk quartet performed together for a show at Carnegie Hall. Tapes of the performance, recorded by Voice of America, were mislabeled and lost until 2005. Links: NYC, Jazz
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1959 Jul 17 |
Billie Holiday (b.1915), jazz and blues singer, died in NYC at age 44. In 1956 William Dufty (d.2002) authored the biography "Lady Sings the Blues." In 2000 Robert O’Meally authored "Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday." Links: USA, NYC, Jazz
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1960 Jan 12 |
The San Francisco Chronicle learned that jazz musician Dave Brubeck had lost $40,000 in bookings on a monthlong Southern tour by his quartet because of black bass player Eugene Wright. Brubeck refused to drop Wright from his group. Links: USA, Black History, Jazz, SF Bay Area
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1961 Jun 25 |
Jazz trio Paul Motion, drums, Bill Evans, piano, and Scott LaFaro recorded a performance at the Village Vanguard in NYC in which each man functioned as an equal rather than as an accompaniment to the leader. The recording changed the idea of the piano trio. Links: USA, NYC, Jazz
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1961 |
San Francisco Mayor George Christopher ordered the police to close the teenage section of the Blackhawk jazz bar, where a chicken wire section had allowed high school and college kids to see and hear jazz music. The mayor's morality crusade soon fizzled and the section was reopened. Links: USA, SF, Jazz
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1962 |
Lou Rawls (1935-2006) released his 1st solo jazz album “Stormy Monday” recorded with the Les McCann Trio. Links: USA, Jazz
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1963 Jul 21 |
In San Francisco the Blackhawk jazz bar, opened in 1949 on the northeast corner of Turk and Hyde, closed with a final show featuring Cal Tjader's band, John Handy and others. Links: USA, SF, Jazz
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1963 Aug 31 |
Dick Gibson (d.1998), jazz lover, held his first Gibson Colorado Jazz Party at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen. He flew in some of the world’s top jazz musicians and began an annual Labor Day weekend tradition that lasted 30 years. Links: USA, Colorado, Jazz
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1965 |
Pharoah Sanders, jazz saxophonist, debuted his 1st album: “Pharoah’s First.” Links: USA, Jazz
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1967 Jul 17 |
John Coltrane (b.1926), jazz composer-musician died in Huntington, N.Y. He gained attention through recordings as part of Miles Davis’ quintet in the 50s. By 1960, following critical acclaim, Coltrane was leading his own quartet that eventually dissolved in 1965. He worked with various musicians for the next two years until succumbing to liver cancer in 1967. Coltrane’s style, developed over the years from influences ranging from Miles Davis’ forms of modal improvisation to Eastern musical theory, has influenced and been imitated by numerous jazz musicians since. His album’s included "Kulu Se Mama" written by Juno Lewis (d.2002). In 2002 Ashley Kahn authored "A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album.” In 2007 Ben Ratliff authored “Coltrane: The Story of Sound.” Links: USA, New York, Jazz, Biography
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1967 Sep 25 |
Stuff Smith (b.1909), jazz violinist, died in Munich, Germany. Links: Germany, Jazz, Violin
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1969 Feb 15 |
Charles Ellsworth Russell (b.1906), aka Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinet player, died in Alexandria, Va. His albums included “Portrait of Pee Wee” (1958). Links: USA, Virginia, Jazz
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1969 Aug 19 |
Miles Davis and associates began a 3-day session recording the album "Bitches Brew" with Tony Williams on drums at Columbia's 30th Street Studio. Other players included Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Airto Moreira, Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Lenny White. The album was released in the spring of 1970 and became a commercial success. Links: USA, NYC, Jazz
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1969 |
Toshiko Akiyoshi (b.1929), jazz pianist and composer, married saxophonist Lou Tabackin. Links: USA, Jazz, Composer, Piano
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1969 |
Dave Brubeck (b.1920) composed "The Gates of Justice," a 45-minute oratorio for chorus, tenor, bass-baritone, brass, percussion and jazz trio. Links: USA, Jazz
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1969 |
Tony Williams (1945-1997), American jazz drummer, left Miles Davis and helped form the Jazz-rock fusion trio Lifetime with guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young. Links: Jazz
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1969 |
In northern California the Concord Jazz Festival began. Links: USA, California, Jazz
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1970 |
Wayne Shorter and keyboardist Joe Zawinful formed the pioneering fusion band Weather Report. Links: USA, Jazz
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1970 |
In Cuba Jesus (Chucho) Valdez formed his jazz group Irakere. Links: Cuba, Jazz
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1971 Jul 6 |
Louis Armstrong (b.1900), jazz and blues musician widely known as "Satchmo," died. His innovations of early day blues and Dixieland music inspired the swing eras of the 1920s and 1930s. He invented skat, a technique of singing jazz improvisations. Louis spoke out against the US government during the 1957 Little Rock, Ark. school troubles. "The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell." A 32 cent memorial stamp was issued by the Post Office in 1995. Armstrong smoked marijuana every day of his adult life, was unfaithful to each of his four wives, was arrested 4 times and consorted freely with prostitutes, pimps and mobsters. His biographies include: "Louis Armstrong: An American Genius" by James Lincoln Collier (1983); "Satchmo" by Gary Giddins (1988); and "Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life" by Laurence Bergreen (1997). In 1999 Joshua Berrett published "The Louis Armstrong Companion." In 2009 Terry Teachout authored “Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.” Links: USA, Blues, Jazz, Pop&Rock, Biography
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1971 |
Franzo King founded the John Coltrane African Orthodox Church at 351 Divisadero St. in San Francisco. King named himself Bishop King and played tenor sax every Sunday at noon for services. A new owner forced the Church to relocate in 2000. Links: SF, Jazz, Religion
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1971 |
In SF Steve Strauss founded the Blue Bear School of American Music to teach rock instead of Bach. The school offered courses in rock, blues, folk and jazz. In 1996 they celebrated a 25 year anniversary. Links: SF, Jazz, Pop&Rock
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1972 |
Todd Barker bought Keystone Korner, a blues bar, in San Francisco’s North Beach and turned it into a jazz bar. Links: USA, SF, Jazz
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1973 Aug 18 |
Gene Krupa (1909-1973), drummer, played for the final time with Benny Goodman Quartet. Links: USA, Jazz
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1973 Oct 16 |
Gene Krupa (b.1909), US jazz and big band drummer, died. Links: USA, Jazz
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