This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1927.

1927 in jazz
Poster for the film The Jazz Singer (1927), featuring stars Eugenie Besserer and Al Jolson
Decade1920s in jazz
Music1927 in music
StandardsList of 1920s jazz standards
See also1926 in jazz1928 in jazz
List of years in jazz
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Musicians born that year included John Dankworth, Cleo Laine and Stan Getz.

Events

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  • April 21 – Electric re-recording of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, with Gershwin at the piano. In 1925, electrical recording vastly improved the quality of recordings, and many important recordings, including Whiteman's 1924 recording of the Rhapsody, were re-recorded electrically. Whiteman was at the podium, but left the studio because of a disagreement with Gershwin over the tempo. Shilkret, Victor's Director of Light Music at the time, took the baton, and the recording was completed as scheduled.[1] The recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1974.

Standards

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Deaths

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October
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  • 1Florence Mills, American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian (born 1896).
Unknown date

Births

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Cleo Laine
 
John Dankworth at Buxton Opera House on 4 November 2002, while in concert with Cleo Laine.

January

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February

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March

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April

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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References

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  1. ^ Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5128-8
  2. ^ "History of Jazz Time Line: 1927". All About Jazz. Archived from the original on 2011-04-15. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
  3. ^ Slotnik, Daniel E. (2012-02-28). "Red Holloway, Swinger of the Sax, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
  4. ^ "Franse accordeonlegende Marcel Azzola overleden". RTLboulevard.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-01-22.
  5. ^ "Danny Moss". The Telegraph. 2008-06-01. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  6. ^ "Romano Mussolini". The Telegraph. 2006-02-04. Retrieved 2016-02-27.

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