1921 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1921.

1921 in jazz
Paul Whiteman and orchestra in 1921
Decade1920s in jazz
Music1921 in music
StandardsList of 1920s jazz standards
See also1920 in jazz 1922 in jazz
List of years in jazz

Musicians born that year included Humphrey Lyttelton and Eddie Calhoun.

Events

Tony Jackson, seated at piano
  • Bix Beiderbecke attended the Lake Forest Academy near Chicago, and got the opportunity to learn about the New Orleans and Chicago Jazz.
  • Frankie Trumbauer worked for Isham Jones at the College Inn in Chicago.
  • Sidney Bechet returns from his trip to Europe, and musicians like Duke Ellington become aware of his abilities.
  • Fletcher Henderson is on the road with Ethel Waters. He hears Armstrong for the first time and immediately offers him a job. Armstrong turns him down.
  • James P. Johnson start approaching jazz with the recording of "Worried and Lonesome Blues" and "Carolina Shout", and he becomes a pioneer of stride piano with these recordings.
  • Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins joined the Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds.
  • Lennie Tristano takes an interest in piano at the age of two years.

Standards

Deaths

April
  • 20Tony Jackson, American pianist, singer, and composer (born 1882).

Births

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See also

References

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