This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1918.
Vaudeville performer Sophie Tucker popularized the jazz standards "Some of These Days", "I Ain't Got Nobody" and "After You've Gone".
Cachao López around 2000
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