1944 in jazz

1944 in jazz
File:Drifting on a reed coleman hawkins.jpg Coleman Hawkins/Thelonious Monk - drifting on a reed 1944
Decade	1940s in jazz
Music	1944 in music
Standards	List of 1940s jazz standards
See also	1943 in jazz – 1945 in jazz

1944 in jazz:

Events

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

• Coleman Hawkins - Rainbow Mist (1944)

Standards

See also: List of 1940s jazz standards

Deaths

• Rod Cless, clarinetist and saxophonist
• Glenn Miller, big-band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader
• Jimmie Noone, clarinetist
• Yank Porter, pianist and composer
• Clarence Profit, pianist and composer
• O'Neill Spencer, drummer and singer
• Tommy Stevenson, trumpet player
• Miklós Vig, singer, actor and comedian
• Bob Zurke, jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader

Births

• John Abercrombie, guitarist
• Alex Acuña, Peruvian drummer and percussionist
• Monty Alexander, pianist
• Kenneth Ascher, pianist, composer, and arranger
• Bobby Battle, drummer
• Oscar Brashear,
• Willem Breuker,
• Harvey Brooks, bassist
• Martha Brooks,
• Ari Brown, tenor saxophonist and pianist
• Chico Buarque,
• George Cables,
• Michael Carvin,
• Judy Chamberlain, singer, bandleader and journalist
• Mark Charig, British trumpeter and cornetist
• John Clark,
• Dave Cliff, British guitarist
• Billy Cobham, drummer, composer and bandleader
• Bob Degen,
• Chuck Domanico, bassist
• Arthur Doyle,
• Martin Drew, English drummer
• Richard Dunbar, player of the French horn
• Lars Edegran, musician and bandleader
• Sherman Ferguson, drummer
• Al Foster, drummer
• Michael Franks, singer and songwriter
• David Friedman, percussionist
• Vyacheslav Ganelin,
• David Goloschekin, Russian multi-instrumentalist
• Eddie Gómez, Puerto Rican double-bassist
• Carol Grimes, singer/songwriter poet and musician
• John gross, saxophone, flute and clarinet player
• Fred Hess, tenor saxophonist
• Jon Hiseman, English drummer
• Roger Humphries, drummer
• Per Husby, Norwegian musician
• Carlos Inzillo,
• Karl Jenkins, Welsh musician and composer
• Candy Johnson, singer and dancer
• Salena Jones, singer
• Peter Kowald, German free jazz musician
• Joachim Kühn, German pianist
• Pat LaBarbera, tenor, alto and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist
• Didier Levallet, French double-bassist
• Ralph MacDonald,
• Pat Martino,
• Ron Mathewson, Scottish double-bassist and bass guitarist
• Ricky May,
• Bill Mays,
• Butch Miles, drummer
• George Mraz, bassist and alro saxophonisr
• Bobby Naughton, vibraphonist
• Evan Parker, British saxophonist
• Rufus Reid, bassist, educator, and composer
• Steve Reid, drummer
• Babik Reinhardt,
• Diana Ross, vocalist and actress
• Saheb Sarbib, double-bassist and bandleader
• Woody Shaw, trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and bandleader,
• Wally Shoup, alto saxophonist
• Don Sickler, trumpeter
• Lew Soloff, trumpeter, composer and actor
• Bobo Stenson, Swedish pianist
• Albert Stinson, double-bassist
• Charles Sullivan (musician),
• John Surman English saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player
• Warren Tartaglia,
• Kiri Te Kanawa,
• Barbara Thompson, English saxophonist, flautist and composer
• Gianluigi Trovesi, Italian saxophonist, clarinetist and composer
• Henry Threadgill,
• Steve Tyrell,
• Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player
• Phil Wachsmann, violinist
• Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne,
• Jack Wilkins, guitarist
• Howard Wyeth, drummer and pianist

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