1951 in jazz

1951 in jazz
The Jazz band of Brazilian saxophonist Marinho de Oliveira Franco
Decade	1950s in jazz
Music	1951 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1950 in jazz – 1952 in jazz

1951 in jazz:

Album releases

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

Standards

Deaths

Mildred Bailey

• 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

References

Bibliography

• The New Real Book, Volume I. Sher Music. 1988. ISBN 0-9614701-4-3. 
• The New Real Book, Volume II. Sher Music. 1991. ISBN 0-9614701-7-8. 
• The New Real Book, Volume III. Sher Music. 1995. ISBN 1-883217-30-X. 
• The Real Book, Volume I (6th ed.). Hal Leonard. 2004. ISBN 0-634-06038-4. 
• The Real Book, Volume II (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2007. ISBN 1-4234-2452-2. 
• The Real Book, Volume III (2nd ed.). Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06136-4. 
• The Real Jazz Book. Warner Bros. ISBN 978-91-85041-36-7. 
• The Real Vocal Book, Volume I. Hal Leonard. 2006. ISBN 0-634-06080-5. 

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