1915 in jazz

1915 in jazz

Jelly Roll Morton published "Jelly Roll Blues" in 1915, the first jazz work in print.
Decade Pre-1920 in jazz
Music 1915 in music
Standards List of pre-1920 jazz standards
See also 1916 in jazz

The exact year in which the musical style called "jazz" began is subject to debate, as are the origins of the word and what exactly qualifies as jazz. Certainly, the term had come to be used by 1915 for a form of music based on New Orleans Ragtime music. Some of the earliest standards first appeared in 1915, and some musicians who went on to become famous in the golden age of jazz were born in that year.[1]

Events

Standards

Births

Billie Holiday Photo by William Gottlieb, 1947

References

  1. Cooke 1999, pp. 1
  2. Cooke 1999, pp. 38, 56
  • Cooke, Mervyn (1999). Jazz. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20318-0.