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Jazz vibraphonist and percussionist John Joseph Brokensha aka Jack Brokensha, is born in Nailsworth, Adelaide, Australia. He will find success with The Australian Jazz Quartet. After meeting Berry Gordy of Motown Records, Brokensha will be hired as a percussionist, becoming one of the few white members of Motown studio's house band, The Funk Brothers.
Harry Reser's Jazz Pilots, with vocalist Tom Stacks, record The Monkey Doodle-Do and I Wish't I Was in Peoria, for OKeh Records in New York City, USA.
Jack Brokensha is born in Adelaide, South Australia. He will find success as a jazz arranger, composer, vibraphonist, drummer and recording artist.
The Carabelli Jazz Band records La Plus Jolie for Victor Records in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.
Arranger, pianist, orchestra leader, singer and recording artist
Erkki Melakoski is born in Turku, Finland, Europe.
'Jazz singers, jazz dancers, Charleston Steppers and Singing Waiters' are providing the entertainment at The Capitol Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Paul Robeson and his arranger/accompanist Larry Brown begin a tour with a sold-out show at Town Hall, New York City, USA.
In an address to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, David Sarnoff, Vice-president of the Radio
Corporation of America [RCA], predicts the development of a super-radio broadcasting system which could enhance cultural exchanges between the United States, Europe, South America, and the Orient. Sarnoff also discusses the possible artistic leadership of radio, with opera and the stage
drawing talent from the broadcasting stations.
The ground-breaking ceremony is held for Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA, with silent movie actresses Norma Talmadge and Anna May Wong in attendance. The cinema will become internationally famed for its Forecourt Of The Stars where celebrated jazz age entertainers, including Al Jolson, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby will have their handprints and autographs cast in concrete.
Elizabeth
Lennox and Franklyn Baur, with The Brunswick Hour Orchestra, records
Someone To Love for Brunswick
Records in New York City, USA, but the track is not released.
The Jack Shilkret Orchestra records I Want Somebody To Cheer Me Up for Victor Records in New York City, USA.