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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Drifting_on_a_reed_coleman_hawkins.jpg/250px-Drifting_on_a_reed_coleman_hawkins.jpg) Coleman Hawkins/Thelonious Monk - drifting on a reed 1944 |
Decade | 1940s in jazz |
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Music | 1944 in music |
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Standards | List of 1940s jazz standards |
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See also | 1943 in jazz – 1945 in jazz |
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Overview of the events of 1944 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1944.
Lester Young wearing pork pie hat. Events
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
Album releases
Standards
Deaths
- February
- 16 – Bob Zurke, American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (born 1912).
- April
- March
- 22 – Yank Porter, American pianist and composer (born 1895).
- July
- October
- December
- 8 – Rod Cless, American clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1907).
- 15 – Glenn Miller, American big-band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (born 1904).
- 19 – Miklós Vig, Hungarian singer, actor and comedian (born 1898).
- Unknown date
Births
Gianluigi Trovesi in 2006.
Steve Reid at Circulo de Bellas Artes 2008.
Joachim Kühn in 2016.
Billy Cobham
Barbara Thompson with Colosseum in 2010.
Naná Vasconcelos in 2008. January
- 5 – Louis Stewart, Irish guitarist (died 2016).
- 6 – Don Sickler, American trumpeter.
- 8 – Bobby Battle, American drummer.
- 9 – Roy Hellvin, Norwegian pianist, composer, and music arranger.
- 10
- 12 – Cynthia Robinson, American trumpeter and vocalist, Sly and the Family Stone (died 2015).
- 20 – Chuck Domanico, American bassist (died 2002).
- 23 – Randy Jones, British-born American drummer (died 2016).
- 24 – Bob Degen, American pianist.
- 29
- 30 – Roger Humphries, American drummer.
February
- 1 – Ari Brown, American tenor saxophonist and pianist.
- 5 – Bill Mays, American pianist.
- 6 – Kosuke Mine, Japanese saxophonist.
- 8 – Candy Johnson, American singer and dancer (died 2012).
- 10 – Rufus Reid, American bassist, educator, and composer.
- 11 – Martin Drew, English drummer (died 2010).
- 15 – Henry Threadgill, American composer, saxophonist, and flautist.
- 17 – Karl Jenkins, Welsh musician and composer.
- 19 – Ron Mathewson, Scottish upright bassist and bass guitarist.
- 20 – Lew Soloff, American trumpeter, composer, and actor (died 2015).
- 22 – Mark Charig, British trumpeter and cornetist.
- 24 – Oddbjørn Blindheim, Norwegian pianist.
March
April
May
- 16 – Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader.
- 22 – Richard Dunbar, American player of the French horn (died 2006).
- 30 – John Gross, American saxophone, flute and clarinet player.
June
- 4 – Jack Wilkins, American guitarist.
- 6 – Monty Alexander, Jamaican-American pianist.
- 7 – Erling Wicklund, Norwegian trombonist and music critique.
- 8 – Babik Reinhardt, French guitarist (died 2001).
- 10 – David Goloschekin, Russian violinist and multi-instrumentalist.
- 17 – Chris Spedding, English guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and record producer.
- 19 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist.
- 21 – Jon Hiseman, English drummer, recording engineer, and record producer (died 2018).
- 24
- Chris Wood, English saxophonist and flautist, Traffic (died 1983).
- Jeff Beck, English guitarist.
- 25
- 26 – Arthur Doyle, American saxophonist, flutist, and vocalist (died 2014).
July
- 4
- 15 – Martha Brooks, Canadian writer and singer.
- 17 – Aage Teigen, Norwegian trombonist (died 2014).
- 19 – Didier Levallet, French upright bassist.
- 21 – Orange Kellin, Swedish clarinetist.
- 27 – Barbara Thompson, English saxophonist, and flautist.
August
September
- 3 – Fred Hess, American tenor saxophonist (died 2018).
- 9 – George Mraz, Czech-American bassist and alto saxophonist.
- 18 – Michael Franks, American singer and songwriter.
- 21 – John Clark, American hornist and composer.
- 26 – Judy Chamberlain, American singer, bandleader and journalist.
October
November
December
- 12
- 15 – Carlos Inzillo, Argentinian clarinetist, producer, and historian.
- 16 – John Abercrombie, American guitarist (died 2017).
- 17 – Vyacheslav Ganelin, Lithuanian–Israeli musician and composer.
- 19
- 24 – Woody Shaw, trumpeter, flugelhornist, and cornetist (died 1989).
- 31 – Bernie Senensky, Canadian pianist, organist, and composer.
Unknown date
- Lars Edegran, American musician and bandleader.
- Tom Parker, British pianist (died 2013).
- Wally Shoup, American saxophonist and painter.
See also
References
- ^ "Music industry manager Jazz Summers dies". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
- ^ "Alvin Lee of Ten Years After Dead at 68". Rolling Stone. 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
Bibliography
- The New Real Book, Volume I. Sher Music. 1988. ISBN 0-9614701-4-3.
- The New Real Book, Volume II. Sher Music. 1991. ISBN 0-9614701-7-8.
- The New Real Book, Volume III. Sher Music. 1995. ISBN 1-883217-30-X.
- The Real Book, Volume I (6th ed.). Hal Leonard. 2004. ISBN 0-634-06038-4.
- The Real Book, Volume II (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2007. ISBN 978-1-4234-2452-9.
- The Real Book, Volume III (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06136-4.
- The Real Jazz Book. Warner Bros. ISBN 978-91-85041-36-7.
- The Real Vocal Book, Volume I. Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06080-5.
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