1954 in jazz

1954 in jazz
Duke Ellington at the KFG Radio Studio, November 1954
Decade	1950s in jazz
Music	1954 in music
Standards	List of post-1950 jazz standards
See also	1953 in jazz – 1955 in jazz

1954 in jazz:

Events

• The first Newport Jazz Festival was held in Newport, Rhode Island.

Album releases

• Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan
• Chet Baker: Sextet
• Tal Farlow: The Tal Farlow Quartet
• Tal Farlow: The Tal Farlow Album

Standards

Deaths

Eddie Condon, Tony Parenti, Wild Bill Davison, Brad Gowans, Jack Lesberg, and Freddie Ohms, Eddie Condon's, New York

Lee Morse c. 1930

• Alfred Burt, American jazz composer and trumpeter
• Austin Wylie, American jazz bandleader.
• Brad Gowans, American jazz trombonist and reedist.
• Dink Johnson, dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer.
• Garland Wilson, American jazz pianist
• Hot Lips Page, American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader
• Lee Morse, American jazz and blues singer and songwriter
• Mike Mosiello, Italian-born American trumpet player
• Papa Celestin, American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, cornetist and vocalist.
• Rudy Williams, American jazz alto saxophonist
• William Frank Newton, trumpeter from Emory, Virginia.

Births

Al Di Meola

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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