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1926 in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1926. Musicians born that year included Miles Davis and John Coltrane, american author and dramatist Edna Ferber publishes the novel Show Boat, popularizing life in the Southern United States. Louis Armstrongs Hot Five releases recordings on Okeh, Virtuoso cornet work on Cornet Chop Suey, jelly Roll Mortons Red Hot Peppers recordings on Victor, Sidewalk Blues. In 1926 standards published included Big Butter and Egg Man, Bye Bye Blackbird, august, David Stanley Smith Professor of Music at Yale University, dismisses Jazz as a serious art form in The Musician. November, Andrè Coeuroy and Andrè Schaeffner publish Le Jazz, jacques Émile Blanche criticizes Jazz music and dance in La Revue nouvelle as a foreign import that threatens the nationality of France. 1920s in jazz Jazz Age Roaring Twenties
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1916 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1916. February 1 - Carl Nielsen conducts the première of his Symphony No, february 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert. March 3 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band begin playing at Schillers Cafe in Chicago, Illinois, march 10 - Sir Hubert Parry writes the choral setting of William Blakes poem And did those feet in ancient time which becomes known as Jerusalem. April 28 - Edison Records carry out the first public comparison test between live and recorded singing voices at Carnegie Hall, featuring soprano Marie Rappold, june 5 - Steins Dixie Jass Band plays its first concert under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band. August 3 - The musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, written, produced, directed and starring Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, premières at His Majestys Theatre in London. It will run for five years and a total of 2,238 performances, december - Wilbur Sweatman records his hot ragtime for Emerson Records in New York City. Gustav Holst completes composition of his orchestral suite The Planets, Op.32, sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia accepts its first students. Soprano Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann is awarded the Charlottenkreuz, german soprano Vali von der Osten marries tenor Fritz Windgassen. Allahs Holiday w. Otto Harbach m, rudolf Friml And They Called It Dixieland w. Raymond Egan m. Richard A. Whiting Arrah Go On, Im Gonna Go Back To Oregon w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m, Bert Grant At Finnigans Ball w. m. Bert Lee Baby Shoes by Joe Goodwin Beale Street Blues w. m, James W. Tate & Frank Clifford Harris Bugle Call Rag w. m. Eubie Blake & Carey Morgan Bull Frog Blues Tom Brown, Guy Shrigley The Cobblers Song w. Oscar Asche m, cliff Hess The Honolulu Blues w. Grant Clarke & Eddie Cox m. James V. Monaco Hows Every Little Thing In Dixie. W. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble Hula Lou w. Edward Grossmith m. Ted D. Ward I Aint Got Nobody w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m, spencer Williams I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife w. Joseph Cawthorn & John Golden m. John Golden I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles w. Andrew B, sterling & Ed Moran m. Harry von Tilzer I Want To Marry A Male Quartette w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml If I Knock The L Out Of Kelly w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m, If You Were the Only Girl w. Clifford Grey m. Nat D. Ayer Im Sorry I Made You Cry w. m. N. J. Clesi Ireland Must Be Heaven, Fred Fisher Ive A Shooting Box In Scotland w. m. Thomas Lawrason Riggs & Cole Porter Joe Turner Blues w. Walter Hirsch m. W. C, handy Katinka w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml Keep Your Eye On The Girlie You Love w. Howard Johnson & Alex Gerber m, ira Schuster The Laddies Who Fought And Won w. m
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1917 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1917. S. See Category, Musical groups established in 1917 All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me w. Al Dubin m. Ernest R. Ball Any Time Is Kissing Time w. Oscar Asche m, frederic Norton from the musical Chu Chin Chow Are You From Heaven. W. m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland A Bachelor Gay w. Frank Clifford Harris & Valentine m. James W. Tate from the musical The Maid of the Mountains Barnyard Blues w. m. Edwin B. Charles Shisler Cheer Up, Liza John L. Golden, Raymond Hubbell Cleopatra Had A Jazz Band w. Jack Coogan m, jimmy Morgan Come To The Fair w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin The Darktown Strutters Ball w. m, shelton Brooks Dixie Jass Band One-Step Original Dixieland Jass Band Down in the Valley trad US Eileen w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert For Me And My Gal w. Edgar Leslie & E. Ray Goetz m. George W. Meyer For Your Country and My Country w. m. Irving Berlin Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride w. James Thomson m. Geoffrey OHara Give Me the Moonlight, Hirsch Good Luck and God Be With You, Laddie Boy w. Gus Edwards Good Bye Broadway, Hello France w. C. Francis Reisner & Benny Davis m, goodbye, Mule, with Yer Old Hee-Haw. w. William Herschell m. Barclay Walker Good-bye, That Means You w. Andrew B, sterling m. Arthur Lange Good-bye-ee w. m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee Hail, the Gangs All Here w. D. A. Esrom m. Theodore F. Morse & Arthur Sullivan Have A Heart w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern Hawaiian Butterfly w. George A. Billy Baskette & Joseph H. Santley Homeward Bound m. George Meyer w. Howard Johnson, teresa del Riego How Can I Forget When Theres So Much To Remember w. m. Irving Berlin Huckleberry Finn by Cliff Hess I Dont Know Where Im Going But Im On My Way w. m, willie White Ill Take You Back To Italy w. m. Irving Berlin Im All Bound Round With The Mason-Dixon Line w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m, irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie & George W. Meyer Lily Of The Valley w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Fred Fisher Love Will Find A Way w. Harry Graham m, introduced by José Collins in the musical The Maid of the Mountains Madmoiselle From Armentieres w. m. anon McNamaras Band w. John J. Stamford m. Shamus OConnor The Modern Maidens Prayer w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley My Sunshine Jane w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball My Sweetie w. m. Al Jolson, B. G. DeSylva & Gus Kahn Napoleon w. P. G, Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern Nesting Time In Flatbush w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern Oh Its A Lovely War w. m. Maurice Scott Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh, abe Olman Ole Miss Rag w. m. Handy On The Road To Home Sweet Home w. Gus Kahn m, egbert van Alstyne Ostrich Walk m. Edwin B
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1918 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1918. January 18 - The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers at the Konzerthaus, Vienna. February 13 - May Mukle and Rebecca Clarke give a recital at the Aeolian Hall in New York City, accompanied by Marjorie Hayward, performing works by Hubert Parry, Frank Bridge and it includes the premiėre of Morpheus, written by Clarke under the pen-name Anthony Trent. March 3 - Béla Bartóks String Quartet No.2 is premièred in Budapest, april 30-May 1 - Composer Toivo Kuula is mortally wounded in the Finnish Civil War. May 24 - Béla Bartóks opera Duke Bluebeards Castle is premiered in Budapest, september 28 - First performance of Igor Stravinskys Histoire du Soldat, conducted by Ernest Ansermet, in Lausanne, Switzerland. September 29 - First performance of Gustav Holsts orchestral suite The Planets, before an audience at the Queens Hall in London. November 15 - Rosa Ponselle makes her Metropolitan Opera début as Leonora in Verdis La forza del destino, november 30 - Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Ralph Vaughan Williams is appointed Director of Music, First Army, First documented racially integrated jazz recording session. Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone records estimated at 100 million records this year, Goldman Band founded by Edwin Franko Goldman After Youve Gone w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton At The Jazz Band Ball w. m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields Bagdad w. Harold Atteridge m. Al Jolson Beautiful Ohio w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl Clarinet Marmalade m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields Dallas Blues w. Lloyd Garrett m. Hart A. Wand Dancing neath the Dixie moon w, dark Grows The Sky w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson The Daughter Of Rosie OGrady w. Monty C, brice m. Walter Donaldson Dear Little Boy of Mine w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball Dear Old Pal of Mine w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice Ding Dong w. m, Irving Berlin Every Day by Shelton Brooks Evrybodys Crazy bout the Doggone Blues, But Im Happy by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager Fidgety Feet m. Edwin B, edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields A Good Man Is Hard To Find w. m. Eddie Green Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip. w. m, give Me No Mans Land w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks Hike, nat Vincent Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo by Edward Rowland How Can You Tell by Ned Wayburn How Ya Gonna Keep em Down on the Farm. W. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson I Found The End Of The Rainbow w. m, john Mears, Harry Tierney & Joseph McCarthy I Want To Shimmy by Shelton Brooks If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany. W. Grant Clarke & Howard Johnson m. George W. Meyer Ill Be There, Laddie Boy, B. G. DeSylva, Gus Kahn & Al Jolson In The Land Of Beginning Again w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer Ja-Da w. m
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1919 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1919. January 18 - The pianist Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of Poland, april 7 - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band brings Dixieland jazz to England, opening a 15-month tour at the Hippodrome, London. July 22 - The Ballets Russes gives the premiere of Manuel de Fallas ballet El sombrero de tres picos in London. August - Josef Matthias Hauer devises his own technique of composition. August 19 - The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, visiting the UK, Ernest Ansermet subsequently writes an enthusiastic review of the orchestras performances in London, singling out Sidney Bechet - one of the first serious pieces of jazz criticism. October 27 - Edward Elgars Cello Concerto is premiered in London, the Louisiana Five are advertised as playing Modern Jazz. Johan Wagenaar becomes director of the Royal Conservatory at the Hague, elsie Griffin joins the DOyly Carte Opera Company. Gustav Kobbés guide The Complete Opera Book is first published, in the United States, wee-Wee. w. George Jessel, m. Harry Ruby Any Old Place With You w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers Ask the Stars by Frank M. Stammers Baby, Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me w. m. Charles McCarron, Casey Morgan & Arthur Swanstrom Breeze w. m. Ballard MacDonald, ed. Thomas Camp Meeting Blues by Dabneys Band Cielito Lindo w. m. Quirino Mendoza y Cortez Daddy Long Legs w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young Dardanella w. Fred Fisher m, felix Bernard & Johnny S. Black Dont Dilly Dally on the Way w. m. Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar w. m, ed Rose, Billy Baskette & Lew Pollack Grönnens Laid, w. Geert Teis Pzn. m. Art Hickman & Ben Black I Aint Gonna Give Nobody None O This Jelly Roll w. Spencer Williams m. Clarence Williams I Gave Her That w. m. B. G. De Sylva & Al Jolson I Lost My Heart In Dixieland w. m. Irving Berlin I Might be Your Once-In-A-While w. Robert B. Smith m, victor Herbert I Never Realized w. m. Cole Porter I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate w. m. Armand J. Piron Im Forever Blowing Bubbles w. John W. Kellette m, jaan Kenbrovin Indian Summer w. Al Dubin m. Irene w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney, introduced by Edith Day in the musical Irene Ive Got My Captain Working for Me Now w. m. Irving Berlin Jazz Baby w. Blanche Merrill & William Jerome m. William Jerome Just Like a Gipsy w. m, victor Jacobi Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses w. Leslie Cooke m. John Openshaw Mah Lindy Lou w. m, lily Strickland Mammy O Mine w. William Tracey m
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1920 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1920. January 19 - The Salzburg Festival is revived, september 4 - City of Birmingham Orchestra first rehearses. November 15 - First complete public performance of Gustav Holsts suite The Planets given in London by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates, december 4 - Première of the opera Die tote Stadt by 23-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold. It later becomes known that the librettist, Paul Schott, is Korngolds father Julius, december 30 - Pearl Hamilton, plays piano with small jazz ensemble to appreciative audience at the Star Theater in New York City. Mamie Smiths first blues recordings become a hit, alerting record companies to the African American market, Hamilton Harty is appointed resident conductor of the Hallé Orchestra. Henri Sauguet forms Groupe des Trois along with Louis Emié and Jean-Marcel Lizotte, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra launches its Mahler festival. Gabriel Fauré retires from the Paris Conservatoire, and is awarded the Grand-Croix of the Légion dHonneur, stewart Macpherson - Melody and Harmony After You Get What You Want, You Dont Want It w. m. Irving Berlin All Shed Say Was Umh Hum w. m, king Zany, Mac Emery, Gus Van & Joe Schenck All The Boys Love Mary Gus Van & Joe Schenck Aunt Hagars Blues w. m. B. G. DeSylva, Al Jolson & Vincent Rose Blue Jeans w. Harry D. Kerr, Otto Motzan & M. K. Jerome Broadway Rose w. Eugene West m. Martin Fried & Otis Spencer Chanson m. Rudolf Friml Chili Bean w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer Crazy Blues w. m, percy Bradford The Cuckoo Waltz w. Arthur Kingsley m. J. E. Jonasson Daddy, Youve Been A Mother To Me w. m. Fred Fisher Do You Ever Think Of Me. w. John Cooper & Harry D, earl Burtnett Down By The O-HI-O w. Jack Yellen m. Abe Olman Feather Your Nest w. m, James Kendis, James Brockman & Howard Johnson The Gipsy Warned Me w. m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee Great Camp Meeting Day w. Noble Sissle He Went In Like A Lion w. Andrew B, sterling m. Harry von Tilzer Home Again Blues w. m. Harry Akst & Irving Berlin I Belong to Glasgow w. m, will Fyffe I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody Like Im Loving You w. m. Egan & Roy Marsh I Used To Love You, But Its All Over Now w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer Id Love To Fall Asleep And Wake Up In My Mammys Arms w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Fred E. Ahlert Ill Be With You In Apple Blossom Time w. Neville Fleason m. Albert Von Tilzer Ill See You In C-U-B-A w. m, Irving Berlin In A Persian Market m. Albert William Ketèlbey The Japanese Sandman w. Raymond B. Hirsch Margie w. Benny Davis m, con Conrad & J. Russel Robinson Mary w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Harry Lauder Old Pal Why Dont You Answer Me w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. M. K. Jerome Pale Moon w. Jesse Glick m. Frederick Knight Logan Palesteena w. m
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1921 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1921. January - Amelita Galli-Curci marries her accompanist, Homer Samuels, who had named in her divorce from the Marchese Luigi Curci. June-July - The Harvard Glee Club takes its first trip to Europe, clarence Williams makes his first recordings Mary Stafford becomes the first black woman to record for Columbia Records The 17-string koto, or Jūshichi-gen, is invented by Michio Miyagi. Cyril Rootham dedicates his Suite in Three Movements for flute and piano to French flautist Louis Fleury, ferruccio Busoni – The Essence of Oneness of Music Aint We Got Fun. w. m. Richard A. Whiting, Raymond Egan & Gus Kahn All by Myself w. m, Irving Berlin And Her Mother Came Too w. Dion Titheradge m. Herbert Happy Lawson April Showers w. B. G. De Sylva m. Louis Silvers Baltimore Buzz w. m, noble Sissle & Eubie Blake Bandana Days w. m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake Bimini Bay w. Gus Kahn & Raymond Egan m, richard Whiting Boy Wanted w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin Dancing Time w. George Grossmith, Jr. Howard Dietz m. Jerome Kern US words written 1924. Dapper Dan w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer Dear Old Southland w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton Down South w. B. G. DeSylva m. Walter Donaldson. Introduced by Al Jolson in the musical Bombo Down Yonder w. m. L. Wolfe Gilbert Everybody Step w. m, Irving Berlin Hawaiian Chimes w. Irving Bibo m. Eva Applefield I Aint Nobodys Darling w. Elmer Hughes m. Robert A. King I Found A Rose In The Devils Garden w. m, fred Fisher & Willie Raskin I Wonder If You Still Care For Me w. m. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler Ill Forget You w. Annelu Burns m. Ernest R. Ball Im Just Wild About Harry w. m, noble Sissle & Eubie Blake Im Missin Mammys Kissin w. Sidney Clare m. Lew Pollack Im Nobodys Baby w. m, Benny Davis, Milton Ager & Lester Santly Jazz Me Blues m. Tom Delaney Keep Movin Helen Trix Kitten On The Keys m, zez Confrey Laughin Rag S. Moore, H. Skinner Learn To Smile w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch Leave Me With A Smile w. m, Charles Koehler & Earl Burtnett Love Will Find A Way w. m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake Ma, hes Making Eyes at Me w. Sidney Clare m. Con Conrad Make Believe w. Benny Davis m, jack Shilkret Mandy N Me w. Bert Kalmar m. Con Conrad My Sunny Tennessee w. m, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby Peggy ONeill w. m. Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson & Gilbert Dodge Sally w. Clifford Grey m. Jerome Kern Say It With Music w. m
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1922 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1922. January 24 - Carl Nielsen conducts the first public performance of his Symphony No.5 in Copenhagen, october 11 - Leila Megàne makes the first complete recording of Sir Edward Elgars Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting. October 19 - Maurice Ravels orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition is premiered in Paris. December 20 - Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on the stage of the Théâtre de lAtelier in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Olivers Creole Jazz Band. Richard Tauber joins the Vienna State Opera, kid Ory makes his first recordings. All musical compositions written in this year or earlier are now public domain in the United States, recordings of those compositions, however are still protected by various state statutes and do not fully enter the nationwide public domain until February 15,2067. Roy Turk, J. Russel Robinson & Addy Britt Aint It A Shame w. m. W. A. Hann, Joseph Simms & Al W. Brown All Over Nothing At All w. J. Keirn Brennan & Paul Cunningham m. James Rule Along The Road To Gundagai w. m. Jack OHagan LAmour, Toujours LAmour w. Catherine Chisholm Cushing m, rudolf Friml Angel Child w. Georgie Price & Benny Davis m. Abner Silver Baby Blue Eyes w. m, jesse Greer, Walter Hirsch & George Jessel Bees Knees by Leo Wood & Ray Lopez Blue w. Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie m. Lou Handman A Brown Bird Singing w. Rodney Richard Bennett m. Haydn Wood Bugle Call Rag m, Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel Carolina in the Morning w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson Carolina Shout m. James P. Johnson Chicago w. m. Dick Winfree & Phil Boutelje Crinoline Days w. m. Irving Berlin Dancing Fool w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder Dearest w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst Do It Again w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin Down In Midnight Town w. Andrew B. Sterling & Edward P. Moran m. Harry Von Tilzer Downhearted Blues w. m, alberta Hunter Dream On w. B. G DeSylva, m. Ted Koehler, Frank Magine & C, Paul Joseph Mares, Leon Rappolo & Elmer Schoebel Fate by Byron Gay Georgette w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson Georgia w. Howard Johnson m. Walter Donaldson Goin Home w. m, Williams Arms Fisher Hot Lips w. m. Brennan A Kiss In The Dark w. B. G. De Sylva m, victor Herbert The Lady In Ermine w. Cyrus Wood m. Al Goodman Lady Of The Evening w. m, introduced by John Steel in the Music Box Revue of 1922
