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1944 in jazz

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1944 in jazz
Coleman Hawkins/Thelonious Monk - drifting on a reed 1944
Decade1940s in jazz
Music1944 in music
StandardsList of 1940s jazz standards
See also1943 in jazz1945 in jazz
List of years in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1944.

Lester Young wearing pork pie hat.

Events

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1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.

Album releases

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Standards

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Deaths

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February
  • 16Bob Zurke, American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (born 1912).
April
March
  • 22Yank Porter, American pianist and composer (born 1895).
July
October
December
  • 8Rod Cless, American clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1907).
  • 15Glenn Miller, American big-band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (born 1904).
  • 19Miklós Vig, Hungarian singer, actor and comedian (born 1898).
Unknown date

Births

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Gianluigi Trovesi in 2006.
Steve Reid at Circulo de Bellas Artes 2008.
Joachim Kühn in 2016.
Billy Cobham
Barbara Thompson with Colosseum in 2010.
Naná Vasconcelos in 2008.

January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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  • 16Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader.
  • 22Richard Dunbar, American player of the French horn (died 2006).
  • 30John Gross, American saxophone, flute and clarinet player.

June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Unknown date

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Music industry manager Jazz Summers dies". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  2. ^ "Alvin Lee of Ten Years After Dead at 68". Rolling Stone. 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2016-04-17.

Bibliography

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