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1950 in jazz

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1950s in jazz

Music
  
1950 in music

1950 in jazz

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1949 in jazz – 1951 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1950.

Contents

Album releases

  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
  • Stan Kenton: Presents
  • Ralph Sutton: Ralph Sutton
  • Lennie Tristano: Wow
  • Stan Getz: Quartets

    • Deaths

  • Al Jolson, American singer, comedian and actor
  • Al Killian, American jazz trumpet player and occasional bandleader
  • Alvin Burroughs, American swing jazz drummer
  • Chelsea Quealey, American jazz trumpeter.
  • Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player.
  • Leo Watson, American jazz vocalese singer, drummer, trombonist and tipple player
  • Ray Perry, American jazz violinist and saxophonist.

    • References

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