1944 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1944.

1944 in jazz
Coleman Hawkins/Thelonious Monk - drifting on a reed 1944
Decade1940s in jazz
Music1944 in music
StandardsList of 1940s jazz standards
See also1943 in jazz 1945 in jazz
List of years in jazz

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
  • 16Bob Zurke, American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (born 1912).
April
March
  • 22Yank Porter, American pianist and composer (born 1895).
July
October
December
  • 8Rod Cless, American clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1907).
  • 15Glenn Miller, American big-band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (born 1904).
  • 19Miklós Vig, Hungarian singer, actor and comedian (born 1898).
Unknown date

Births

Steve Reid at Circulo de Bellas Artes 2008.
Joachim Kühn in 2016.
Barbara Thompson with Colosseum in 2010.

January

February

March

April

May

  • 16Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader.
  • 22Richard Dunbar, American player of the French horn (died 2006).
  • 30John Gross, American saxophone, flute and clarinet player.

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown date

See also

References

  1. "Music industry manager Jazz Summers dies". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  2. "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 1-4234-2452-2.
  • 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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