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The Cragg Family, Louise Thorndyke Boucicault And Company, Katherine Germaine, The Four Otts, Lefbre's Saxophone Quartet, Chas. H. Bradshaw And Company, Remarc And Rilay, and Hill And Silviany, are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
During a successful UK tour, most of the members of The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, a jazz ensemble from the USA, are sailing on the SS Rowan from Glasgow, Scotland, to Derry, Ireland. Eight members of the band are killed when the ship is struck by two others in a collision. Survivors include Sidney Bechet, Evelyn Dove and Cyril Blake.
Les Hite's California band, and Slim Gaillard's novelty group, play during a week of shows at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Free-form jazz saxophonist Charles Tyler is born in Cadiz, Kentucky, USA.
Jazz saxophonist James Moody records Cherokee and Pennies From Heaven in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe for Metronome/Prestige Records.
When The Charlie Parker Septet plays at Birdland, Broadway, New York City, USA, the show is broadcast live by WJZ Radio.
Julian Dash And His Orchestra record Hot Rod, For Squares Only, Cream'n Boogie and Open Up Them Pearly Gates in New York City, USA.
Sidney Bechet plays at La Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, Europe.
Trumpeters Billy Butterfield and Red Allen, trombonist Bill Harris; clarinet player Buddy DeFranco, saxophonists Louis Prima, Charlie Parker and Jerry Jerome, pianist Teddy Wilson, bassist Eddie Safranski, drummer Don Lamond and singer Dottie Reed play at Loew's King's Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
The Paul Williams Orchestra plays at The Ebony Club, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
The Stan Getz Quintet is playing at Birdland, New York City, USA.
Illinois Jacquet plays during a week at The Trocaveria Club, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Jazz clarinet player Omer Simeon, who worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Kid Ory, Coleman Hawkins and many others, dies of throat cancer, aged 57, in New York City, USA.
Cannonball Adderley is playing at The Birdhouse, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Cannonball Adderley is recording tracks for his Riverside Records album Know What I Mean?, at Bell Sound Studios, New York City, USA.
Cannonball Adderley And His Orchestra are recording tracks for the Riverside Records album African Waltz, in New York City, USA.
Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa, with Antonio Carlos Jobim on guitar, record Two Note Samba, Menina Flor, Ebony Samba and Mania De Maria for Verve Records in Webster Hall, New York City, USA.
The Paul Desmond-Jim Hall Quartet records The One I Love, Blues For Fun and other material in Webster Hall, New York City, USA, for RCA Victor Records.
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman release the LP John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman on Impulse! Records in the USA.
Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins plays at The Marounuchi Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
The Jazz Crusaders record Free Sample, Moon River and other tracks in Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Four Upsetters release a new single, Midnight Soiree b/w Crazy Arms on Sun Records in the USA.
Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing and Stan Getz play at Philharmonic Hall, New York City, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Bill Barron records the Leonard Bernstein/Steven Sondheim compositions Cool, Somewhere and I Feel Pretty, in Gotham Studios, New York City for Dauntless Records.
The John Coltrane Quartet records Crescent and Bessie's Blues for Impulse Records at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Wayne Shorter records Juju, Yes Or No and other tracks for Blue Note Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
The Hullabaloos, The Detergents, Shirley Ellis, Little Richard (whose backing group includes Jimi Hendrix], The Vibrators, The Exciters, The Hollies, The Uniques, Dee Dee Warwick, Roddy Joy, Sandie Shaw and King Curtis play at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
The John Coltrane Quartet records Chim Chim Cheree, Brasilia and Song Of Praise at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Impulse! Records.
Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter records the album Etcetera for Blue Note Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
The Yusef Lateef Quartet records Bamboo Flute Blues, I'll Always Be In Love With You and Semiocto for Impulse Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
John Coltrane performs his four-part suite A Love Supreme in its entirety at the Antibes Jazz Festival, Antibes, France, Europe.
Albert Ayler records the album Spirits Rejoice at Judson Hall in New York City, USA, for ESP Disk.
'Another Beatles Christmas Show', starring The Beatles, opens at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK. It runs until 16 January, with support acts including Freddie And The Dreamers, The Yardbirds, Elkie Brooks, Sounds Incorporated , The Mike Cotton Sound and Jimmy Savile as compere.
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On the day of the burial of recently-assassinated US Senator Bobby Kennedy, Duke Ellington, The Bill Evans Trio, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Johnny Hodges, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Felicia Saunders, The Horace Silver Quintet and Joe Williams, record a tribute concert for WCBS-tv, New York City, USA.
James Brown records You Know It, Tit For Tat and Believers Shall Enjoy in King Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Blood, Sweat And Tears play the first of two nights at The Psychedelic Supermarket, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer [Emerson, Lake And Palmer], Labi Siffre, Ronnie Scott, Jim Cregan [Family], Brian Gibson [Geordie] and Tony Norton [Jigsaw] take part in a Pop Star Celebrity Race at Brands Hatch, near Swanley, Kent, UK. Jazzman Ronnie Scott wins the race. Also in attendance are Suzi Quatro and Don Powell [Slade].
Rent Party play at Robinson College, Cambridge, England, UK, Europe.
Bamboo Fringe play at The Everyman Bistro, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Inner City Unit play at The New Ocean Club, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe.
Inner City Unit play at The Blue Note, Derby, England, UK, Europe.
The Jan Garbarek Quartet plays at The Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK.
Jazz and r'n'b saxophonist Red Prysock, dies of a heart attack in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In his varied career Prysock worked with Tiny Bradshaw, Roy Milton and Cootie Williams. Red was also the brother of vocalist Arthur Prysock.
Legendary jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet dies in New York City, USA, aged 81.
The 2006 Playboy Jazz Festival, a two-day event, begins at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Bill Cosby as master of ceremonies. Artists appearing over the two days of the event include Elvis Costello, Jamie Cullum, Branford Marsalis, Allen Toussaint and Ozomatli.
LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founder member of the Dave Matthews Band, suffers a punctured lung and broken ribs in a vehicular accident at his farm near the band's home base of Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Pete King, saxophonist and co-founder of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, London, UK, dies aged 80 in London, UK. In the last years of his life he had suffered from dementia.
Clarence Clemons, saxophonist of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, dies aged 69 in a Florida hospital. He had suffered a stroke and underwent brain surgery a week earlier.
Melissa Aldana plays at The SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
Charles Lloyd And The Marvels 80th Birthday Celebration takes place at The Rose Theater, New York City, USA.
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