1944 in jazz

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1944 in jazz
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Coleman Hawkins/Thelonious Monk - drifting on a reed 1944
Decade 1940s in jazz
Music 1944 in music
Standards List of 1940s jazz standards
See also 1943 in jazz 1945 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 1944.

Contents

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Lester Young wearing pork pie hat.

Events

1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.

Album releases

Standards

Deaths

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December
Unknown date

Births

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Gianluigi Trovesi in 2006.
Steve Reid at Circulo de Bellas Artes 2008. Steve Reid Circulo de Bellas Artes 2.JPG
Steve Reid at Circulo de Bellas Artes 2008.
Joachim Kuhn in 2016. Joachim Kuhn (2016).jpg
Joachim Kühn in 2016.
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Billy Cobham
Barbara Thompson with Colosseum in 2010. 2010-11-01 Colosseum, Brueckenforum, Bonn IMG 6440 Barbara Thompson.jpg
Barbara Thompson with Colosseum in 2010.
Nana Vasconcelos in 2008. Nana Vasconcelos (2457390747).jpg
Naná Vasconcelos in 2008.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown date

See also

References

  1. "Music industry manager Jazz Summers dies". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  2. "Iris Williams, Welsh singer best known for her 1979 hit He Was Beautiful". Telegraph. 16 July 2025. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  3. "Alvin Lee of Ten Years After Dead at 68". Rolling Stone . 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2016-04-17.

Bibliography