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1926 in jazz

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1926 in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1926.

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Musicians born that year included Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

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Events

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Record releases

Standards

Music criticism

  • August: David Stanley Smith (1877–1949) Professor of Music at Yale University, dismisses Jazz as a serious art form in The Musician.[7]
  • November: Andrè Coeuroy (1895–1980) and Andrè Schaeffner publish Le Jazz.[8]
  • Jacques Émile Blanche (1861–1942) criticizes Jazz music and dance in La Revue nouvelle as a foreign import that threatens the nationality of France.[9]
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Deaths

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  • Edmund Jenkins, African-American composer during the Harlem Renaissance (born 1894).

Births

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Jazz guitarist Franco Cerri in Milan, Italy in September 2008
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Kenny Hagood with Dizzy Gillespie.
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Jazz musician Miles Davis
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Czech jazz singer Vlasta Pruchova, Lucerna Hall, Prague 1985
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Tony Bennett in 2012.
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John Coltrane in 1961.
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