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Multi-instrumentalist and record producer Maartin Alcock is born in Middleton, Greater Manchester, UK. He is best-known as a member of the folk group Fairport Convention.
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers record Once Upon A Groove, Sam's Tune, Touche and Little T [Lil 'T] for Pacific Jazz Records in New York City, USA.
A new jazz venue, The Cavern Club, is opened in Liverpool, UK, by local entrepreneur Alan Sytner.
Fats
Domino's original version of Ain't That A
Shame enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No23
during a two-week run.
The BBC Light Programme's jazz festival, Jazz Saturday, featuring Chris Barber, Sandy Brown, Cy Laurie, Mick Mulligan and the Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group, is held at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.
Soul/r'n'b vocalist Billy Wilson is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. In a long and varied career, he will work with Martha And The Vandellas, The Contours and Jr. Walker's All Star Band.
Fats Domino's I'm Walkin' replaces his Blue Monday which, in turn, had replaced his Blueberry Hill, at the top of the Billboard R'n'B
charts in the USA.
Izzy Young opens The Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. His first customers are said to have been Harry Belafonte and Burl Ives.
Buddy Holly and The Crickets record Words Of Love at producer Norman Petty's recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico, USA.
Little Darlin' by The Diamonds reaches No2 in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA, making it their biggest hit.
Alan Freed's Easter Jubilee opens at the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. New acts Charlie Gracie, Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen join Freed's roster of established black stars, including Bo Diddley, The Cleftones, Bobby Marchan, The Del-Vikings [aka The Dell Vikings], The Harptones, The Solitaires, The G Clefs and The Pearls.
The Big Bopper begins a non-stop 122 hours of radio broadcasting in the USA to establish a new world record.
A Sun Records package tour featuring Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wanda Jackson and Johnny Cash plays in Saskatoon, Manitoba, Canada.
Soozie Tyrell, violinist, guitarist and backing vocalist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is born in Pisa, Italy, Europe.
Chess Records of Chicago, Illinois, USA, begins moving in to its new office and studio building at 2120 South Michigan Avenue.
Britain's skiffle king Lonnie Donegan records Putting On The Style and Gamblin' Man, in London, UK.
Too Much by Elvis Presley enters the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No6 during a nine-week run.
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers record Down On The Street, Shorty and other tracks in New York City for Jubilee Records.
The Diamonds release their version of the Buddy Holly song Words Of Love on Mercury Records in the USA.
The Top Record Stars of 1957 tour, featuring Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sonny James, Wanda Jackson and Johnny Hicks, plays the first of two nights in Beaumont, Texas, USA. The show is presented by Beaumont Police Department and, according to the posters, tickets costing $1 are available 'from any policeman or at Police Station.'
Frankie Laine plays the eleventh night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
After a performance at the Wide Awake Ballroom, Newark, New Jersey, USA, Solomon Burke becomes convinced that his manager, Kae Williams, is cheating him out of most of his performance fees. After a confrontation, Burke shoots Williams, who gets his revenge by having Burke's Apollo Records contract terminated and having the singer 'blackballed' from the music business, so that he cannot perform live. [guns, violence]
Amateur skiffle group The Quarrymen perform from the back of a lorry in Roseberry St, Liverpool, UK. Their guitarist is John Lennon, later to form The Beatles.John Lee Hooker records Little Wheel and Rosie Mae for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago, Illinois.
Chuck Willis, The Cookies, The Velours and Ocie Smith [aka O.C. Smith] play at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
The Four Knights play the second of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Charlie Gracie plays at The Gaumont, Southampton, UK, supported by Shirley Bassey and Ted Heath And His Music.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet plays the first of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The Biggest Show Of Stars For 1957 plays the second of five nights at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA, featuring Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Paul Anka, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Bowen, Sam 'The Man' Taylor and Clyde McPhatter.
When US package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars for 1957, normally featuring Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Paul Anka, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, The Bobbettes, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Bowen, Sam 'The Man' Taylor and Clyde McPhatter plays in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, the white acts are unable to perform because of local segregation laws.
The Everly Brothers are the musical guests on CBS tv's Ed Sullivan Show, recorded in New York City, USA.
Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No1 during a nineteen-week run.
Milton Allen records Don't Bug Me Baby for RCA Victor Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, The session is produced by Chet Akins.
The New Billy Taylor Trio records I Get A Kick Out Of You, You Make Me Feel So Young and other tracks for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA.
The Coasters play the fifth night of a week at the Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA, with The Hollywood Flames and the Ernie Freeman Combo.
Starring tonight on tv show American Bandstand in the USA is Jerry Lee Lewis. Further down the bill, however, are Tom And Jerry singing their minor hit Hey! Schoolgirl. They will find greater success after a name change to Simon and Garfunkel.
Tommy Steele shoots a wedding sequence for the film The Duke Wore Jeans, in British National Studios, Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, UK.
The Modern Jazz Quartet plays at The Odeon, Nottingham, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Don Rendell Sextet.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Empire Theatre, Nottingham, UK, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck are the stars of the All-Star Jazz Show on NBC-tv in the USA.
Elvis Presley plays his first live show in two months, a New Year's Concert in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
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