1944 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
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,
