Tag Archives: 1919 in New York

Among the last from the acoustic tempo guitarists, Steve Jordan kept the Freddie Green/Allan Reuss custom entering the 1990s. He in fact studied in early stages with Reuss (Benny Goodman’s tempo guitarist), and Jordan was often much more thinking about being component of a tempo section than learning to be …

A trusted guitarist having a interesting shade, a hard-swinging design, and strong complex abilities, Al Viola have been a secured asset to every program that he made an appearance on, and there were many. Viola performed inside a jazz music group within the Military (1942-45), where he fulfilled Page Cavanaugh. …

A technically competent trumpeter and an underrated trumpeter, Bernie Privin spent the majority of his profession employed in the studios, emphasizing his skills being a lead and section trumpeter. Self-taught, Privin was still an adolescent when he performed in the rings of Harry Reser (1937), Bunny Berigan and Tommy Dorsey …

Ervin Drake composed several varied vocal and jazz specifications between your 1940s and ’60s, including “Perdido” and “I REALLY BELIEVE,” aswell as unofficial theme tracks for two from the brightest vocalists from the 20th hundred years: Frank Sinatra (“IT HAD BEEN a good Season”) and Billie Vacation (“HELLO Heartache”). Delivered …

Martha Lipton had a significant American operatic profession being a mezzo-soprano and alto, showing up nearly 300 occasions in the Metropolitan Opera Home between 1944 and 1961. She analyzed in the Juilliard, where she debuted as Pauline in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades in 1941. She 1st sang with the brand …

A figure in the bop era who had potential but, unfortunately, retired from music in 1952, Benny Harris used Tiny Bradshaw (1939) and twice with Earl Hines’ Orchestra (1941 and 1943). He was a fixture on 52nd Road in the first ’40s, getting involved in many early bop periods and …

Among jazz’s most tragically overlooked geniuses, Herbie Nichols was an extremely initial piano stylist along with a author of tremendous creativity and eclecticism. He wasn’t known broadly plenty of to exert very much impact in either division, but his music ultimately drawn a rabid cult pursuing, though nearly the wide …

Among the to begin many early fatalities in jazz, Henry Ragas’ 1 claim to popularity was his association with the initial Dixieland Jazz Music group. Ragas found experience like a single pianist during 1910-13. He proceeded to go with Johnny Stein’s music group to Chicago in 1916 and, when many …

b. 6 Might 1866, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. 23 March 1919, NY, USA. A significant librettist and lyricist through the early years from the twentieth hundred years, Blossom still left his dad’s insurance business after he started writing short tales and then, books, among which, Checkers, he effectively dramatized. …

The son of the milliner from NY City’s Decrease East Part, Aaron Chwatt became a performer after winning an amateur contest at age 12. Six years later on, he was a performing bellboy inside a Bronx tavern. (It had been from the standard that he took his popular moniker, Red …