This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1917.
Hanley and MacDonald's "Indiana" (1917) is one of the most popular pre-1920s standards.
Dizzy Gillespie in concert in Deauville, Normandy, France
Ella Fitzgerald photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1940
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1916.
Promotional postcard of the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
Cat Anderson, Aquarium, New York, ca. 1947
Bill Harris, Dave Tough, and Charlie Ventura, Three Deuces, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948