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-1900's	- Blues become a standard feature of honky tonks and dancehalls. - New Orleans players are playing a mix of Blues, Ragtime, brass band music, marches, Pop songs and dances
- 1903	- Jelly Roll Morton proclaimed to be the inventor of Jazz. - Migrations from the south into Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh are beginning.
-1910's	- Joe Oliver in New Orleans discovered a young cornet player by the name of Louis Armstrong. - Duke Ellington moved to New York from Washington, and began to develop the skills as an arranger and composer.
-1920's	- The New Orleans Rhythm Kings are playing in Chicago at Friar's Inn.
- 1922	- Django Reinhardt's mother bought him a banjo.
- 1923	- Bessie Smith, most famous of the Classic Blues singers, begins her period of greatest fame.
- 1924	- Gershwin does "Rhapsody in Blue".
- 1926	- Miles Davis is born May 25, in Alton, Illinois.
- 1927	- Armstrong makes the greatest of the hot fives and sevens and revolutionizes the trumpet.
- 1928	- Django Reinhardt meets violinist Staphane Grapelli and makes his first records. - Big band Swing is overtaking New Orleans style. - Duke Ellington and Count Basie form their famous big bands as jazz enters its "Golden Age."
-1930's	- Duke Ellington records his first big hit, "Dreamy Blues" (Mood Indigo).
- 1931	- Pianist Oscar Peterson begins to study piano.
- 1934	- Ella Fitzgerald (16 year old) wins first prize at a talent contest at the Harlem Opera House. - The Swing band era opens.
- 1936	- The Count Basie band is the best Swing band (Buck Clayton - trumpet, Benny Morton and Dicky Wells - trombone, Lester Young - tenor sax, Walter Page - bass).
- 1937	- Duke Ellington band records "Caravan". - Vocalists came to the forefront led by such favorites Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Fats Waller.
- 1939	- Charlie Christian's unique electric guitar allow the guitar to compete as a lead instrument.

-1940's	- Swing falls. - Singer and band leader Machito forms most successful of early Afro-Cuban bands. - Charlie Parker meets Dizzy Gillespie. - Bebop era opens. - Thelonius Monk becomes the high priest Bop. - Bop players are playing "off-beat". - Stan Kenton forms his first band. - Charlie Mingus plays with Louis Armstrong's big band. - Bop is a recognized movement. - Jazz is becoming the preferred music of white renegades.
- 1946	- The first vinyl record is produced. - Ray Charles begins his professional carreer.
- 1947	- Charlie Parker forms the "Charlie Parker Quintet" with Max Roach (drums), Miles Davis (trumpet), Tommy Potter (bass) and Duke Jordan (piano). - John Coltrane plays in Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson's "Rhythm and Blues group".
- 1948	- At the age of 3, Keith Jarrett begins to play the piano.
- 1949	- Dizzy Gillespie explores Afro-Cuban music with his newly formed big band. His addition of percussionist Chano Pozo to his band adds the Cuban fire. - "The Miles Davis nonet" performs at the Royal Roost on Broadway. - Latin influences become more important in Jazz.
-1950's	- The West Coast School (also called Cool) produces some big hits such as the rendition of "My Funny Valentine" (Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan). - At last there is a mixing black and white bands. - Drugs run rampant in Bop. - Billy Holiday abuses with alcohol and drugs. Her voice is going and so is her health. - Coltrane becomes addicted to Heroin. - Charlie Parker is still hopelessly addicted to drugs. - Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins joins "the Miles Davis group".
- 1951	- Jazz is starting to be considered legitimate by colleges and universities.
- 1952	- John Lewis (piano), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums) form a "Modern Jazz Quartet" (MJQ). - The Swing band era opens.
- 1953	- Mingus creates first superstar group, which includes Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and Bud Powell.
- 1954	- Miles Davis stops to use drugs and records his famous "Walking". - Horace Silver and Miles Davis begin experiments with Hard Bop or Funk. - Pianist Bill Evans has become a master of composition and harmony. - in Newport, Rhode Island, takes place first Jazz Festival.
- 1955	- Heroin takes away the key musicians of Bop... - On March 12, 1955 dies Charlie Parker... The reason is heart seizure and hemorrhage. - The group of Miles Davis has at last constant structure of the musicians: Cannonball Adderley (alto sax), Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Jo Jones (drums) and Miles on trumpet, of course.
- 1956	- Charlie Mingus comes to peak of his popularity.
- 1957	- Coltrane plays the historic "Five Spot" with Thelonious Monk.
- 1958	- Miles Davis invites into your group pianist Bill Evans.
- 1959	- Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane and other musicians of Miles group, pawn a basis of Modal Jazz (the album "Kind of Blue").

-1960's	- Free Jazz and Modal Jazz supersede Bop from jazz arena. - The ascention popular form of Hard Bop, named Soul Jazz begins.
- 1961	- Free Jazz is becoming more popular.
- 1962	- The Latin Jazz boom has begun with first hits "Desafinado" and "The Girl from Ipanema".
- 1964	- In October, 1964, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor make Free Jazz revolution by a series of concerts in the "Cellar Cafe" in New York - Pianist Herbie Hancock with drummer Tony Williams begin to work with Miles Davis.
- 1965	- John Coltrane records the epoch album "A Love Supreme". - Baritone sax player Gerry Mulligan records "Night Lights", Where plays on clarinet and piano also.
- 1967	- in July 17, 1967 (at the age of 40) of liver cancer dies John Coltrane. - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix records his debut album "Are You Experienced?".
- 1968	- Jimi Hendrix meets Miles Davis, and this meeting opens new prospects for development of jazz. - Jazz-Rock Fusion supersedes Free Jazz.
- 1969	- Miles Davis and John McLaughlin (electric guitar) record historical "Bitches Brew". - Jean-luc Ponty plays violin with composer Frank Zappa. - Great saxophonist Coleman Hawkins dies of liver cancer.
-1970's	- The career of unique singer Al Jarreau begins.
- 1971	- on July 6, 1971, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong dies in New York City. - John McLaughlin forms the "Mahavishnu Orchestra" with Jan Hammer (piano), Billy Cobham (drums), Jan Hammer (piano), Jerry Goodman (violin) and Rick Laird (bass). - Pianist Chick Corea forms the Free Jazz group "Circle" with Barry Altschul (drums), Dave Holland (bass), and Anthony Braxton (reed and percussion), and records "Paris Concert". - Chick Corea pics a team of stars (Joe Farrell on flute and tenor sax, Stanley Clarke on bass, Airto Moreira on percussion and Flora Purim on vocals) for record historical album " Light as a Feather ". - Pianist Herbie Hancock records album "Headhunters" which becomes classics of Fusion.
- 1972	- "Weather Report" records "I Sing the Body Electric".
- 1973	- coriphaeuses of jazz die: Gospel great Mahalia Jackson, Gospel singer Sister Rosetta, Stride piano pioneer Willie "The Lion" Smith...
- 1974	- in May 24th the magnificent Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington dies.
- 1975	- Koln Concert of pianist Keith Jarrett brings to him huge success. The connoisseurs compare him with Bill Evans. - Guitarist Pat Metheny records his first album "Bright Size Life" with Jaco Pastorius on bass and Bob Moses on drums. - Pop Jazz vocalist Michael Franks records "The Art of Tea" (with Joe Sample, Michael Brecker, David Sanborn and Larry Carlton).
- 1976	- Unique bassist Jacomo Pastorius plays the group "Weather Report".
- 1977	- Pianist Errol Garner dies of a heart attack.
- 1978	- Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea play piano duets. - Groups like "Spyro Gyra" take the idea of fusion and adapt them for accessible radio play. The end results are the commercially popular smooth jazz.
- 1979	- Charles Mingus dies on January 5 at the age of 56 in Mexico. - Trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis comes to New York and begins to play Hard Bop. ...So... Hard Bop revives!
-1980's	- Brilliant trumpeter Wynton Marsalis with his brother saxophonist Branford and bassist Charles Fambrough doing Hard Bop in Art Blakey's "Jazz Messengers".
- 1981	- Miles Davis returns after six years of silence.
- 1982	- The Kool Jazz festival highlights younger musicians of a jazz, among them singer Bobby Mc Ferrin and Wynton and Branford Marsalis. - in February in Weehawken, N.J, piano genius Thelonious Monk dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
- 1983	- Wynton Marsalis records album " Think of One ", which will win Grammy for him.
- 1984	- Miles Davis records album "Decoy" with John Scofield (guitar) and Branford Marsalis (saxophone).
- 1985	- The Fusion group "Weather Report" breaks up because of disagreements between Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul.
- 1987	- Magnificent bass player Jaco Pastorius dies........... - Trumpeter Randy Brecker forms his own group.
- 1988	- At the age of 59 in Amsterdam as a result of fall from a window one of founders Cool Jazz great trumpeter Chet Baker perishes.
- 1989	- Guitarist John Scofield connects Bop, Swing and Jimmy Hendrix's manner of play.
-1990's	- Legendary guitarist Al Di Meola's incredibly fruitful career has spanned a range of styles, emotions and continents. - One of the first Bop singers Sarah Vaughan dies in N.Y. - Saxophonist John Zorn releases his staggeringly original concept album "Naked City."
- 1991	- Trumpet legend Miles Davis dies. - Trumpeter extraordinaire Wynton Marsalis becomes the artistic director of the Jazz at the Lincoln Center program.
- 1992	- A new fusion has been brewing for a few years. It is called Acid Jazz.
- 1993	- .......Dizzy Gillespie dies...... - Bassist Marcus Miller does his first solo album "The Sun Don't Lie" (with Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Joe Sample and David Sanborn).
- 1994	- Herbie "Hip Hop" Hancock explores another style of Jazz on "Dis is da Drum".
- 1995	- The ascending star of jazz piano Brad Mehldau does his first solo album "Introducing Bran Mehldau".
- 1996	- June 15th Queen of jazz Ella Fitzgerald dies.
- 1997	- Marcus Miller forms the new fusion group "Legends" with David Sanborn, Joe Sample, Steve Gadd and Eric Clapton. - Jazz vocalists experience a new level of popularity with new talent such as Cassandra Wilson and Diana Krall.

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