1950 in jazz

1950 in jazz
GeorgeLewisBandKubrick.jpg
The George Lewis Ragtime Jazz Band in New Orleans, 1950
Decade1950s in jazz
Music1950 in music
StandardsList of post-1950 jazz standards
See also1949 in jazz1951 in jazz
List of years in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1950.

Events

  • The owner of Cafe' Society, Barney Josephson, was forced out of business by the right-wing politics of Senator Joseph McCarthy.[1]
  • Dizzy Gillespie visited Clifford Brown at the hospital during his year long recovery after an automobile accident that almost killed him, and urges him to move forward with his musical career as a trumpeter.[1]

Album releases

Standards

Deaths

May
  • 2Leo Watson, American jazz vocalese singer, drummer, trombonist and tipple player (born 1898).
  • 6Chelsea Quealey, American jazz trumpeter (died 1905).
July
August
September
  • 5Al Killian, American jazz trumpeter and occasional bandleader (born 1916).
  • 15Dol Dauber, Czech violinist, bandleader, composer, and music arranger (born 1894).
October
  • 23Al Jolson, American singer, comedian and actor (born 1886).
Unknown date
  • Lou Gold, Polish-American composer, pianist and band leader (born 1885).
  • Ray Perry, American jazz violinist and saxophonist (born 1915).

Births

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Unknown date

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "History Of Jazz Timeline: 1950". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2017-12-25.

Bibliography

External links


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