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American author and dramatist Edna Ferber publishes the novel Show
Boat, popularizing life in the Southern United States. Although
Ferber never visited the south and invented her story from
fictional minstrel themes, the real American Show Boats were steeped in the black
Riverboat Jazz music of Mississippi and the Ohio Valley.[1]
American ragtime jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Jelly Roll
Morton is signed by Victor and begins
recording with the the Red Hot Peppers, featuring Kid Ory, Omer
Simeon, George Mitchell, Johnny St. Cyr, Barney Bigard, Johnny
Dodds, and Baby Dodds.
Album
releases
Births
Ray Brown (October 13, 1926 – July
2, 2002) American double bassist.
Miles Davis (May
26, 1926 – September 28, 1991)[2]
American trumpeter, bandleader and composer
John
Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967)[3]
American saxophonist and composer
Jimmy Heath
(born October 25, 1926) American jazz saxophonist
Deaths
Awards
Music
criticism
August: David Stanley Smith (1877-1949)
Professor of Music at Yale University, dismisses Jazz as a serious
art form in The Musician.[4]
November: Andrè Coeuroy (1895-1980) and Andrè Schaeffner
publish Le Jazz.[5]
Jacques Émile Blanche (1861 –
1942) criticizes Jazz music and dance in La Revue nouvelle
as a foreign import that threatens the nationality of France.[6]