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Adaline
Shepherd is born in Algona, Iowa, USA. She is perhaps
best-remembered as the composer of the ragtime piano favourites
Pickles And
Peppers and Wireless Rag.
Edythe Baker is born in Missouri, USA. After moving moved to
New York City in late 1919, she will make a series of piano rolls
for the Aeolian company ranging from ragtime to melodic popular tunes, including Yes Sir, That's My Baby and Sweet Man.
America's first Negro-owned and managed entertainment center, The New Pekin Theatre, opens at 2700 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The first production is a full-length musical comedy, The Man From 'Bam, featuring ten songs by ragtime composer Joe Jordan.
The magazine Talking Machine World runs an advert for recordings by Mamie Smith, describing her as "a singer of blues - the music of so new a flavor".The DeBroy Somers Band records Marie, Sweetheart Of All My Dreams, Flower Of Love and Just Plain Folk, for Columbia Records in London, UK.
Blues star Blind Lemon Jefferson dies aged 36 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will be buried in an unmarked grave in the Wortham Negro Cemetery.
Anselmo Sacasas And His Royal Havana Orchestra are playing at The Colony Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with The Four Senators.Vaughn Monroe And His Orchestra play at The Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Pearl Bailey signs a document on Columbia Recording Company headed paper in New York City, USA, agreeing to waive royalties on her V-Disc recordings of the songs Tired and Fifteen Years, which are given free to boost morale in the US Army and Navy.
Paul Martell's Orchestra is playing at The Palm Beach Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
The musical comedy Along Fifth Avenue, with music by Gordon Jenkins, comes to the end of its run at The Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA. It will re-open shortly after at The Imperial Theatre.
The "Spectacular Musical Show" Adam To Atom is playing at The Museum Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz pianist Dill Jones, multi-instrumentalist Tubby Hayes and others play at The King's Head, Merton, UK.
US music trade magazine Cashbox describes the newly-released Got My Mojo Working by Muddy Waters on Chess Records as a "sleeper of the week". The same edition of Cashbox also refers to another version of the same song as its "r'n'b sleeper of the week." The song, written by Preston Foster, will become the subject of a long drawn out copyright case.
Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson record That Old Feeling, Let’s Fall In Love and other tracks for the album Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson, in Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California.
Ed Cuffee, who played trombone with jazz bands including McKinney's Cotton Pickers, The Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Count Basie and Bunk Johnson, dies in New York City, USA.
The Marcels, Jerry Butler, Dee Clark and Maxine Brown play the fourth night of a week at the The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Ray Charles, The Coasters and Betty Carter play the second night of a week of shows at the Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA. On the same day, Ray is arrested in a Southside apartment following a drugs tip-off to police. No drugs are found but he is charged for 'loitering with known narcotics addicts'.
Jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan And His Quartet record tracks for the album Bearcat for Jazzland Records at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City, USA.The Dave Brubeck Quartet is recorded live, performing St Louis Blues, Nomad and other tracks during an appearance on KQED-tv in San Francisco, California, USA.
During a concert at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, Louis Armstrong spontaneously plays a rendition of God Bless America, in tribute to the recently assassinated President Kennedy.
Tommy
Tucker releases a new single, Long Tall Shorty, which
will become a live favourite for many UK bands, notably The
Who.
Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Sleepy John Estes, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sunnyland Slim, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Lightnin
John Coltrane plays the first of four nights at Leo's Casino, Euclid Quad Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
The 
Buddy Charles And His Trio are playing at The Winner's Circle, Chicago. Illinois, USA.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience return to Los Angeles, California, USA, and rent a mansion on Benedict Canyon Road where they hang out with drummer Buddy Miles.Jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd plays the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, as support to The Moody Blues and Rotary Connection.
On their Chicago XIV tour, Chicago play at The Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Eastates, Illinois, USA.Hard To Say I'm Sorry by Chicago reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA.
A video for the Traveling Wilburys '
single, Wilbury Twist, is filmed at a Los Angeles mansion. The Wilburys
are Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison.
Jazz pianist Patricia Barber releases a new album, Nightclub, on Blue Note records in the UK.
The first day of the Lollapalooza '05 festival is held at Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Artists appearing over the two days of the event include Pixies, Weezer, The Killers, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab For Cutie and Arcade Fire.
On their 19-date Rock Paper Scissors tour Sting and Peter Gabriel play at The United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Ariana Grande and Hailee Steinfeld appear at The iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, in The Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays the second of two nights at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
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