In 1919 in jazz, although 70 blacks were killed by white mobs, a monumenal step was made when he NAACP promoted the slogan "The new Negro has no fear", which helped the cause of jazz.^[1] The Original Dixieland Jazz Band visited England in 1919 and generated new interest in the new music. Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet also delivered an accolade to Sidney Bechet in Revue Romande, considered the first serious article on jazz in history, and Bechet is lauded as a gifted musician by many classical European musicians.^[1]

In 1919 the popular standard "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" was published. Births in that year included Art Blakey and Nat King Cole.

Events

• Sidney Bechet moves to New York City and joins Will Marion Cook's Southern Syncopated Orchestra and travels later travels to Europe where he discovers the soprano saxophone.^[1]
• February -James Reese Europe and his Hellfighters return home and soon go on a tour of the states .^[1]
• May 9- James Reese Europe is stabbed to death by Herbert Wright.^[1][2]

Standards

Deaths

1919 sheet music cover for "Good Night Angeline" with photo of James Reese Europe and his famous 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band

• Henry Ford, New Orleans jazz string bass player
• Henry Ragas, jazz pianist who played with the Original Dixieland Jass Band on their earliest recording sessions
• James Reese Europe, ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer

Births

Art Blakey in 1985 Anita O'Day at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Arnold Fishkind c. 1960 The musicians listed below were American unless otherwise stated.

• Al McKibbon, double bassist, known for his work in bop, hard bop, and Latin jazz
• Al Viola, jazz guitarist
• Anita O'Day, jazz singer
• Arnold Fishkind, jazz bassist
• Art Blakey, drummer and bandleader.
• Babs Gonzales,
• Barry Galbraith,
• Benny Harris,
• Bernard Anderson,
• Booty Wood,
• Buddy Morrow,
• Calvin Jackson,
• Don Cornell,
• Ella Johnson,
• Erwin Lehn,
• George Shearing,
• Georges Henry,
• Georgie Auld,
• Hal Singer,
• Henry Coker,
• Herbie Fields,
• Herbie Nichols,
• Herman Fowlkes, Jr.,
• Ike Isaacs (guitarist),
• Israel Crosby,
• Jim Chapin,
• Joe Benjamin,
• Joe Carroll,
• Joe McQueen,
• John Malachi,
• Johnny Bothwell,
• Johnny Desmond,
• Kenny Trimble,
• Lennie Tristano,
• Luther Henderson,
• Mary Ann McCall,
• Mercer Ellington,
• Moultrie Patten,
• Nat King Cole, pianist and vocalist
• Peck Morrison,
• Peggy Mann,
• Randy Brooks (musician),
• Sadik Hakim,
• Shadow Wilson,
• Snooky Young,
• Steve Jordan (guitarist),
• T o Tom,
• Vic Lewis,

References