1951 in jazz

1951 in jazz:

Album releases

  • Stan Kenton: City of Glass
  • Oscar Peterson: 1951
  • Shorty Rogers: Modern Sounds
  • Standards

    Deaths

  • Charlie Creath, American jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader.
  • Cyril Blake, Trinidadian jazz trumpeter.
  • Doc West, American jazz drummer.
  • Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer
  • R.Q. Dickerson, American jazz trumpeter.
  • Ray Wetzel, American jazz trumpeter.
  • Shirley Clay, American jazz trumpeter.
  • Sid Catlett, American swinging jazz drummer
  • Valentin Parnakh, Russian poet, translator, historian, explorer, musician, choreographer, ballet master, best remembered as a founding father of Soviet jazz.
  • Vic Berton, American jazz drummer.
  • Births

  • Alphonso Johnson, bassist
  • Anthony Davis (composer),
  • Barry Finnerty,
  • Bill Frisell, guitarist
  • Bill MacCormick,
  • Billy Newton-Davis,
  • Bob Berg, saxophonist
  • Bobby Caldwell,
  • Bobby Previte,
  • Brooks Kerr, pianist
  • Carla White, vocalist
  • Charles Loos, Belgian pianist
  • Dennis Irwin, double-bassist
  • Diedre Murray, cellist and composer
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