Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 19 1929	Mavis Chloe Rivers is born in Apia, Western Samoa. She will find international acclaim as jazz and blues vocalist Mavis Rivers. (1929)
May 19 1929	Alfredo Jos da Silva is born in Rio De Janiero, Brazil. He will find fame as pianist, singer and composer Johnny Alf, sometimes described as the Father of Bossa Nova. (1929)
May 19 1931	The movie King Of Jazz, starring Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby and others, opens in theatres in Portugal, Europe. (1931)
May 19 1933	Songwriter Harold Arlen performs as the opening act at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, USA, singing his ever-popular composition Stormy Weather. (1933)
May 19 1933	Spike Hughes And His Negro Orchestra record Air In D Flat, Donegal Cradle Song, Music At Sunrise, Firebird and How Come You Like Me Like You Do?, for Decca Records in New York City, USA. (1933)
May 19 1934	Ralph Bennett And His Seven Aces play in The Cooper Club, Henderson, Texas, USA. (1934)
May 19 1938	The Ink Spots record I Wish You The Best Of Everything and When The Sun Goes Down, for Decca Records. (1938)
May 19 1942	The Ink Spots record Who Wouldn’t Love You? for Decca Records. (1942)
May 19 1945	The Nat 'King' Cole Trio records You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody loves You, Don’t Blame Me, I’m In the Mood For Love and other tracks in Los Angeles for Capitol Records. (1945)
May 19 1945	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The Paradise Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (1945)
May 19 1945	Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra play in The Naval Base, Melville, Rhode Island, USA. (1945)
May 19 1950	Having recovered from three months of illness, Louis Jordan And His Orchestra begin a week at The Paramount Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Nat King Cole, records Time Out For Tears, My Brother, Home, A Woman's Got A Right To Change Her Mind and, with his wife Maria Cole on vocals, Ev'ry Day [I Fall In Love], in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Sarah Vaughan records Mean To Me, Come Rain Or Come Shine and Nice Work If You Can Get It, for Columbia Records at their studio in New York City, USA. Playing trumpet on the session is Miles Davis. (1950)
May 19 1950	Ragtime pianist Johnny Maddox becomes the first artist ever recorded on Dot Records in Gallatin, Tennessee, USA. At the session, Maddox records Crazy Bone Rag and St. Louis Tickle. (1950)
May 19 1950	The Ulf Linde Quintet records On The Alamo and Always for Metronome Records in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. (1950)
May 19 1950	Jazz pianist Willie Jones plays in Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois, USA. The show lands Jones in trouble with the local Musicians Union, because saxophonist Melvin Scott complains he has been replaced in the band by Tom Archia without receiving adequate notice and without being paid the full amount promised. (1950)
May 19 1950	Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the fifth night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the fifth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 19 1953	The Miles Davis Quartet records When Lights Are Low, Smooch, Miles Ahead and Tune Up at WOR Studios, New York City, USA. (1953)
May 19 1956	Vic Lewis And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. (1956)
May 19 1960	Jazz saxophonist Don Wilkerson records Morning Coffee, Idiom and Media, in San Francisco, California, USA, for Riverside Records. The tracks will appear on his album Texas Twister. (1960)
May 19 1964	The Modern Jazz Quartet appears on the BBC 2 tv jazz series Jazz 625, in the UK. (1964)
May 19 1980	Brand X, voted the world's Number One jazz-rock band in the Melody Maker Polls for 1978 and 1979, play at The Venue, London, UK. (1980)
May 19 1982	Tito Puente plays at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, USA, during a thirteen-night season. (1982)
May 19 2001	Acclaimed jazz-pop interpretative vocalist Susannah McCorkle commits suicide by jumping from the window of her New York City apartment, after penning a suicide note. (2001)
May 19 2004	The album Twentysomething by Malmesbury-raised jazz star Jamie Cullum debuts at No2 on the Billboard US Contemporary Jazz Chart, and also at No93 on Billboard?s US Top 200 Album chart. (2004)
May 19 2009	Natalie Cole undergoes a kidney transplant operation at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, and is said to be 'resting comfortably'. (2009)
May 19 2010	The PPL Parliamentary Jazz Awards, attended by culture minister Ed Vaizey, are held in the Terrace Pavilion, House of Commons, London, UK. Mark Lockheart wins the jazz musician honour and No Messin' by The Gareth Lockrane Septet wins the jazz album award. Other winners include Jazz Ensemble - The Nigel Price Organ Trio; jazz venue - The Jazz Bar (Edinburgh); jazz broadcaster - Alyn Shipton; jazz publication - Jazzwise. The event is hosted by Paul Gambaccini and guests are treated to a live performance by 2009 Jazz Musician of the Year Phil Robson with vocalist Christine Tobin. (2010)
May 19 2010	The Neil Cowley Trio play at The Corn Exchange, Newbury, UK. (2010)
May 19 2011	Multi-award-winning jazz vocalist Clare Teal is interviewed on BBC tv show Breakfast to promote her recently-released album, Hey Ho, in the UK. (2011)