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Earle Roberts is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find success mostly as a jazz banjo and guitar player, with bands including Jack Johnson's band, Frank Westphals' Orchestra, Art Khan, Bud Freeman, The Sinclair Minstrels, as well as working on the steamboats out of New Orleans.
Edison Phonograph machines are being advertised in American newspapers for a payment of $1.00 down plus $1.00 a week.
Ernst Heinrich Stauffer is born in Murten, Switzerland, Europe. He will find success as bandleader, musician and actor Teddy Stauffer.The Troubadours record I Had You. I Lost You, I Found You (Only To Lose You Again), Waters Of The Perkiomen and D'ye Love Me?, for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Frances Deitsch is born in New York City, USA. She will find acclaim as song lyric writer Fran Landesman, whose songs Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most and Ballad Of The Sad Young Men will become jazz standards.Alice In Wonderland, a stage play with music, is running at The Civic Repertory Theatre, New York City, USA.
Joe Venuti and his band, with Kay Starr on vocals, play at The Village Casino, Bemus Point, New York State, USA.
Anselmo Sacasas And His Royal Havana Orchestra are playing at The Colony Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with The Four Senators.
Jazz trumpeter, vocalist and bandleader Johnnie 'Scat' Davis plays at The Blackhawk, Chicago, Illinois, USA, during a four-week residency.
The film Young Man With A Horn [aka Young Man Of Music], opens in cinemas in the USA. The film, based loosely on the life of Bix Beiderbecke, stars Kirk Douglas as a troubled young jazz trumpeteer, and includes acting roles for popular vocalist Doris Day, and songwiter Hoagy Carmichael.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing a selection of popular songs on his radio show, Meet Frank Sinatra, in the USA.
Judy Garland comes to the end of a four-week concert engagement at The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles, California, USA.In London, UK, the NME holds its annual Poll Winners Concert at The Royal Albert Hall.
Musicarnival, one of the first tent-based theatres in America, opens at Thistledown race Track, Warrensville Center Road, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It specialises in musicals, opera and variety, but will also stage jazz performances by artists including Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, and Dave Brubeck.Frank Sinatra records You Make Me Feel So Young, Memories Of You and other tracks in KHJ Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Buddy Knox, fresh from a No1 US hit with Party Doll, is called up to the US Army.
Mercury Records announces that it is stopping production of 78rpm records. [On The Platters recent No1 his single, Twilight Time, 98.2% of sales were on 45rpm discs, and a mere 1.8% on 78rpm.]
Louis Armstrong and the All Stars record I Love Jazz, The Mardi-Gras March, Basin Street Blues and Otchi-tchor-ni-ya for Decca Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
John Lee Hooker records Solid Sender, Canal Street Blues, Dusty Road and other tracks for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers record the album The Big Beat at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows play the fourth night in a week of shows at The Coventry Theatre, Coventry, UK.
Bob Miller And His Millermen, well known for their BBC radio session work, play at The Locarno Ballroom, Old Town Square, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. The band's vocalist is popular jazz singer Barbara Jay.
Barbra Streisand plays the second night in a month-long engagement at The Bon Soir Club, New York City, USA.
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Andy Connell, keyboardist of Swing Out Sister, is born in Manchester, England, UK, Europe.Helen Shapiro, Danny Williams, The Brook Brothers, Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor and The Galliards, The Two Tones, The Red Price Combo, Joe Baker and Jack Douglas play at The Granada, Walthamstow, England, UK, Europe.
Ray Charles And His Raelets Revue are playing during seven nights at The Regal Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji and his group play the third of nine nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Cannonball Adderley Sextet with Nat Adderley and The Charlie Mingus Group play at Art D'Lugoff's Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Ben Webster, with Arnvid Meyer's Orchestra, records Duke's In Bed, Nancy With The Laughing Face, Brother John's Blues and Blue Light for Black Lion Records in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
Jazz guitarist and banjo player Johnny St. Cyr, dies of leukaemia in Los Angeles, California, USA. In a long and acclaimed career, he worked with with Papa Celestin, Kid Ory, Fate Marable, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and others.Miles Davis plays at The Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA, during the Summer Of Stars concert season.
Jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela plays the second of ten nights at The Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Peggy Lee records Bridge Over Troubled Water, Always Something There To Remind Me and The Thrill Is Gone in Capitol Tower, Los Angeles, California, USA.
China Radio, the national Chinese station, begins broadcasting Western popular music for the first time, ranging from Glenn Miller to Madonna.
Kathlyn Brox (aka Kathleen Brox) of The Brox Sisters, stars of Vaudeville, Broadway, films and radio, dies aged 84 in New York City, USA.
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Apple launches its iTunes Music Store in Japan, Asia.
Rock drummer and bandleader Keef Hartley dies aged 67 of complications arising from surgery in Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK, Europe.Erykah Badu takes to Twitter to furiously criticise The Flaming Lips for releasing footage of her sitting in a bath full of blood, glitter and creamy liquid, in the video for the band's version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, online over the weekend. The video immediately notches up another 100,000 views.
The seven-day-long New Orleans
Jazz And Heritage Festival begins in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The first night is headlined by Dr. John, John Mayer and George Benson, and
artists appearing over the coming days include Billy Joel, B.B. King, Ben
Harper, Jill Scott, The Dave Matthews Band, Roy Ayers, Patti Smith, Maroon 5, Willie Nelson, Fleetwood Mac, Frank
Ocean, Trombone Shorty, Taj Mahal and Aaron Neville.
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