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Saxophonist and clarinetist Joe Hayman is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
Cherry Wainer is born in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She will find success as a Hammond organist, best-known as a member of Lord Rockingham's XI.
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Louis Jordan reaches No1 in the Billboard R'n'B Singles Chart in the USA.
The Metronome All Stars plus Stan Kenton And His Orchestra record Metronome Riff at RKO Pathe Studios, New York City, USA, for Capitol Records. The All Stars line up on this session includes Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Nat King Cole (piano), Buddy Rich and Shelly Manne (drums) and Art Pepper (sax).
The Lester Young Band plays at The Royal Roost, New York City, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker plays the thirteenth night of a two-week engagement at The Blue Note Club in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Orrin Tucker And His Orchestra open for a month at The Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet plays at Club 43, Woodside, Queens, New York City, USA.
The Sax Mallard Combo comes to the end of an engagement at The Ebony Lounge, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Walter Thompson is born in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He will find success as a jazz-oriented composer, saxophonist, percussionist, and educator. He will also create the multidisciplinary live composing sign language, Soundpainting.
Jazz saxophonist Jimmy Forrest and jump blues vocalist Roy Brown play the third night in a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
The Gene Ammons Octet records Just Chips, Street Of Dreams, The Beat and Traveling Light for Savoy Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Louis Sclavis is born in Lyon, France, Europe. He will find success as a jazz musician and recording artist, playing clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone.
Big Jay McNeely plays the fourth night in a week long residency at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Vic Ash And His Band play at the Festival Hall, East Kirkby, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
The Jazztet plays at Birdland, New York City, USA.
The Roland Kirk Quartet records We Free Kings, Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year and other tracks for Mercury Records in Nola Penthouse Studio, New York City, USA.
Brenda Lee, with producer Owen Bradley, records Organ Grinder's SwingLet The Four Winds Blow, Hold Me and I'll Always Be In Love With You for Decca Records in Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session features guitarists Hank Garland and Grady Martin, bassists Harold Bradley and Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman, pianist Floyd Cramer, harmonica player Charlie McCoy, sexophonist Boots Randolph and the Anita Kerr Singers.
Louis Jordan plays at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Pony Poindexter completes recording of tracks for his Epic Records album Pony's Express, in New York City, USA.
Be-bop jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and saxophonist Charlie Mariano record the album East And West for RCA Japan in Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Nat Kendrick And The S wans release a new instrumental single, Wobble Wobble, on Dade Records in the USA.
Joe Williams, Gerry Mulligan and McCoy Tyner are among the artists appearing at The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
Cannonball Adderley plays in Sankei Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Stan Getz records Reflections, Penthouse Serrenade and other tracks for Verve Records in A + R Studios, New York City, USA.
The New York Contemporary Five, which includes Don Cherry and Archie Shepp, record tracks for their debut album Consequences on Fontana Records.
The New Stan Getz Quartet, with Astrud Gilberto, plays during a month of dates at The Caf
The New Stan Getz Quartet with Astrud Gilberto plays during a month of dates at The Caf
The Dexter Gordon Quartet do a live radio broadcast from Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
The Sun Ra Arkestra and The Roswell Rudd-John Tchicai Quartet play on the last night of the Four Days In December concert series staged by The Jazz Composers' Guild at Judson Hall, 165 West 57th Street, New York City, USA.
John Coltrane opens at The Half Note, New York City, USA.
John Coltrane begins a one-week residency at Pep's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley records the album Dippin' at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Blue Note Records.
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane play at Art D'Lugoff's Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
John Coltrane plays the first of four nights at Leo's Casino, Euclid Quad Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers play at the California Ballroom, Dunstable, England, UK, Europe.
The Eric Kloss Quintet records Blues Up Tight, We're Goin' Up and other tracks for Prestige Records, in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Blood Sweat And Tears are playing during three nights at The Cafe Au GoGo, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, supported by Buzzy Linhart.
The Buddy Miles Express play the fourth of five nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Don Drummond, saxophonist with influential ska/reggae band The Skatalites, dies in Bellevue Hospital, Jamaica, Caribbean, aged 37. He had been committed to the hospital as insane, and his death (controversially) will be listed as a suicide.
The Archie Shepp Quartet plays at Sheffield University, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
During an eight-date tour, jazz saxophonist Tommy Smith plays at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Van Morrison agrees to the British government using his hit Brown-Eyed Girl for a tv commercial promoting peace in Northern Ireland.
Legendary jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet dies in New York City, USA, aged 81.
Revered classic jazz label Blue Note launches a range of telephone ringtones based on the music of its artists including Thelonious Monk, Chet Baker and Herbie Hancock.
Jazz flute and saxophone star Bud Shank, dies, aged 82, in San Diego, California, USA. Although a leading light in the West Coast jazz scene and a pioneer of the 60s samba-jazz craze, he is perhaps best-known to a wider public for his signature flute embellishments on the Mamas And The Papas summer anthem California Dreamin'.
MIM (Musical Instrument Museum), a 200,000 square feet museum and venue focused entirely on music and musical instruments from around the globe opens in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Dave Brubeck is presented with a special issue Miles Davis Award, in the Salle Stevie Wonder of the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, during the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. The award is to honour Brubeck's career as one the most audacious jazz pianists of his generation. Later in the day, The Dave Brubeck Quartet performs the closing concert of the festival in the Theatre Maisonneuve.
Gerbrand Westveen dies in the Netherlands, Europe. He had found success as a saxophone player, doing sessions on albums by Fay Lovsky, Sommerset, André Hazes, Henk Westbroek and Ben Liebrand and others.
Hackney Colliery Band releases the LP Collaborations: Voume One, on Veki Records in the UK.
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