American author and dramatist
Edna Ferber publishes the novel Show Boat, popularizing life in the
Southern United States. Although Ferber never visited the south and invented her story from fictional minstrel themes, the real American
Show Boats were steeped in the black Riverboat Jazz music of
Mississippi and the
Ohio Valley.[1]
American ragtime jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
Jelly Roll Morton is signed by
Victor and begins recording with the Red Hot Peppers, featuring Kid Ory, Omer Simeon, George Mitchell, Johnny St. Cyr, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, and Baby Dodds.
Duke Ellington and his band record "East St Louis Toodle-o" on November 29.
Jacques Émile Blanche (1861–1942) criticizes Jazz music and dance in La Revue nouvelle as a foreign import that threatens the nationality of France.[9]
Deaths
Unknown date
Edmund Jenkins, African-American composer during the Harlem Renaissance (born 1894).
^Ward, Geoffrey C., "Jazz: a history of America's music." Knopf, 2000. Pages 130, 131.
ISBN0-679-44551-X
^[1] Larson, Thomas E.E. The history and tradition of jazz." Kendall Hunt Pub Co, 2002 Page 59.
ISBN978-0-7872-7574-7.
^[2] Ratliff, Ben "The New York Times essential library: Jazz"a critic's guide to the 100 most important recordings." Times Books, 2002, Page 17.
ISBN978-0-8050-7068-2
^Ward, Geoffrey C., "Jazz: a history of America's music." Knopf, 2000. Pages 136-137.
ISBN0-679-44551-X
^Blake, Jody (1999). Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930.
Penn State Press. p. 86.
ISBN0-271-01753-8.
American author and dramatist
Edna Ferber publishes the novel Show Boat, popularizing life in the
Southern United States. Although Ferber never visited the south and invented her story from fictional minstrel themes, the real American
Show Boats were steeped in the black Riverboat Jazz music of
Mississippi and the
Ohio Valley.[1]
American ragtime jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
Jelly Roll Morton is signed by
Victor and begins recording with the Red Hot Peppers, featuring Kid Ory, Omer Simeon, George Mitchell, Johnny St. Cyr, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, and Baby Dodds.
Duke Ellington and his band record "East St Louis Toodle-o" on November 29.
Jacques Émile Blanche (1861–1942) criticizes Jazz music and dance in La Revue nouvelle as a foreign import that threatens the nationality of France.[9]
Deaths
Unknown date
Edmund Jenkins, African-American composer during the Harlem Renaissance (born 1894).
^Ward, Geoffrey C., "Jazz: a history of America's music." Knopf, 2000. Pages 130, 131.
ISBN0-679-44551-X
^[1] Larson, Thomas E.E. The history and tradition of jazz." Kendall Hunt Pub Co, 2002 Page 59.
ISBN978-0-7872-7574-7.
^[2] Ratliff, Ben "The New York Times essential library: Jazz"a critic's guide to the 100 most important recordings." Times Books, 2002, Page 17.
ISBN978-0-8050-7068-2
^Ward, Geoffrey C., "Jazz: a history of America's music." Knopf, 2000. Pages 136-137.
ISBN0-679-44551-X
^Blake, Jody (1999). Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930.
Penn State Press. p. 86.
ISBN0-271-01753-8.