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1941 in jazz

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1940s in jazz

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1941 in music

1941 in jazz

See also
  
1940 in jazz – 1948 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1941.

Contents

Events

  • Cab Calloway is struck by a spitball during a concert in Hartford, Connecticut and fights Dizzy Gillespie after which Dizzy is fired.

    • Deaths

  • Casper Reardon, American classical and later jazz harpist
  • Dick Wilson, American jazz tenor saxophonist
  • Eric Burdon, English singer
  • Frank Melrose, American jazz and blues pianist
  • Jelly Roll Morton, American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer.
  • Ken Snakehips Johnson, jazz band leader and dancer, originally from British Guiana.
  • Steve Lewis, New Orleans jazz pianist and compose

    • References

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