1939 in jazz

1939 in jazz
Clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman popularized many of the 1930s standards, including "Darn That Dream", How Deep Is the Ocean, and "Stompin' at the Savoy".
Decade	1930s in jazz
Music	1939 in music
Standards	List of 1930s jazz standards
See also	1938 in jazz – 1940 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1939.

Events

• The earliest formal books on jazz begin to appear, including Wilder Hobson's American Jazz Music and Frederick Ramsey and Charles Edward Smith's Jazzmen.^[1]
• Fletcher Henderson becomes the first black musician who is a regular member of a white big band when he joins Benny Goodman, although he does not became a featured artist in the band.^[1]
• Charlie Christian makes some revolutionary electric guitar records which allow to the guitar to play lead with the trumpet and the saxophone for the first time.^[1]
• The Duke Ellington Band experiences major success. Django Reinhardt records "Montmartre", "Solid Old Man", "Low Cotton" and "Finesse" with the band.^[1]

Standards

Deaths

• Ma Rainey, Blues singer
• Charlie Irvis, American jazz trombonist
• Chick Webb, American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.
• Herschel Evans, tenor saxophonist
• John Robichaux, American jazz bandleader, drummer, and violinist
• Louis Douglas, American dancer, choreographer, and music businessman
• Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter

Births

Alan Silva in Belgium in 1969

Andrew Cyrille

References