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Tommy Christian And His Orchestra are playing during a three-month engagement at The Mounds Country Club, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA, operated by the notorious St. Louis gangster William Patrick 'Bow Wow' McQuillan.
Ambrose And his Orchestra record L-O-V-E, The Thought Never Entered My Head and Who Cares?, in Chelsea, London, UK, for Decca Records.
Toshiko Akiyoshi is born in Liaoyang, Manchuria. She will find fame as a jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and was the first woman to win the Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's Readers Poll.
Ruth Etting records More Than You Know written by Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu, for Columbia Records in the USA.
Jazz cornet virtuoso Bix Beiderbecke spends the thirtieth of 36 nights in the Keeley Institute, Dwight, Illinois, USA, being treated for delerium tremens caused by his heavy drinking.
Ruth Etting records More Than You Know written by Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu, for Columbia Records in the USA.
Pioneering cajun musicians Joe Creduer [accordion-vocals] and Albert Babineaux [triangle] record Tu Va Partir Seul, La Fille Que J'Aime, Ma Cherie and Petit Ou Gros, Donne Moi Le, for Victor Records in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.