Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 23 1921	British jazz trumpet star Humphrey Lyttelton is born in Eton, Berkshire, UK. (1921)
May 23 1921	The stage musical Shuffle Along by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, opens at the 63rd Street Theatre on Broadway, New York City. (1921)
May 23 1925	The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago records Oh, How I Miss You Tonight and Riverboat Shuffle for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA. (1925)
May 23 1928	Clarence Williams' Washboard Five record Red River Blues and Shake It Down for OKeh Records in New York City, USA. (1928),
May 23 1929	Billy Cotton And His Orchestra record Deep Night and Lover, Come Back To Me, in London, UK, for Decca Records. The tracks are not released. (1929)
May 23 1929	Sam Lanin's University Orchestra records I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling, written by Fats Waller, Harry Link and Billy Rose for Supertone Records in the USA. (1929)
May 23 1929	Joe Morris And His Orchestra record I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling, written by Fats Waller, Harry Link and Billy Rose for Champion Records in the USA. (1929)
May 23 1934	Dr Robert Moog, inventor of the electronic music synthesiser which will revolutionise pop and jazz music in the 1970s, is born. The word Moog will become almost a synonym for any kind of electronic keyboard. (1934)
May 23 1935	Vincent Lopez And His Orchestra play in The Cooper Club, Henderson, Texas, USA. (1935)
May 23 1936	Benny Goodman And His Orchestra come to the end of a seven-month long residency in the Joseph Urban Room of the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. In the course of the residency, Goodman has established a popular new style of big-band music - swing. (1936)
May 23 1937	Leo Reisman And His Orchestra perform songs including They All Laughed, Tango Caminito and The Piccolino on radio programme The Schaefer Beer Nine O'clock Revue in the USA. (1937)
May 23 1938	New Orleans piano virtuoso Jelly Roll Morton begins a two-week recording session with music archivist Alan Lomax that results in his influential Library Of Congress Recordings set, in which he not only plays classic jazz and ragtime pieces, but tells the story of the evolution of the music. (1938)
May 23 1939	Benny Goodman And His Orchestra play on the CBS network's Camel Caravan radio show in Columbus, Ohio, USA. (1939)
May 23 1940	Fats Waller takes part in a roadside event honouring high school graduates, somewhere between Wichita Falls and the Mexican border. (1940)
May 23 1940	Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra, with vocalist Frank Sinatra, play at the Astor Hotel, New York City, USA, during a fourteen?week engagement. (1940)
May 23 1940	Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra with vocalist Frank Sinatra, record I'll Never Smile Again for Victor Records in the USA. (1940)
May 23 1941	Abe Lyman's Orchestra opens for a week at The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1941)
May 23 1950	Saxophonist Carl-Henrik Norin records Marcheta for His Master's Voice Records in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. (1950)
May 23 1950	The Charlie Parker Quintet plays at Cafe Society [Downtown], Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 23 1950	The Tito Burns Septet records Lullaby In Rhythm and Sloppy Joe for Decca Records in London, UK. (1950)
May 23 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the ninth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 23 1950	Louis Jordan And His Orchestra play the fifth night of a week at The Paramount Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (1950)
May 23 1950	Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the ninth night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 23 1950	Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the third night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 23 1950	Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the third of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 23 1953	The Charlie Parker Sextet, including Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, plays at Birdland, New York City, USA. (1953)
May 23 1959	The Count Basie Orchestra, with Billy Eckstine on vocals, records Lonesome Lover Blues, Jelly Jelly and other tracks in New York City, USA. (1959)
May 23 1959	Billy May And His band play at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. (1959)
May 23 1962	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers play the third night of a two-week season at McKie's Disc Jockey Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1962)
May 23 1966	When blues and jazz singer Jimmy Witherspoon plays at The Bull¹s Head, Barnes, London, UK, the show is recorded and will be released by Fontana Records as the album 'Spoon Sings And Swings. (1966)
May 23 1968	Dick Jurgens And His Orchestra play at The Willowbrook Ballroom, Willow Springs, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1968)
May 23 1980	Brand X, voted the World's Number One Jazz-rock Band in the Melody Maker Polls for 1978 and 1979, come to the end of a UK tour with a show at the Polytechnic, Oxford. (1980)
May 23 1981	Jazz-rock band Landscape enter the UK singles chart with Norman Bates which will peak at No40, and is their last chart hit. (1981)
May 23 1982	Tito Puente plays the last of thirteen nights at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, USA. (1982)
May 23 1994	Revered jazz guitarist Joe Pass dies aged 65 from liver cancer in Los Angeles, California, USA. (1994)
May 23 2001	New York's prestigious Juilliard School Of Music announced the selection of eighteen instrumentalists who will form the core of its first jazz orchestra, to be known as The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra. (2001)
May 23 2010	Lloyd Glenn dies of a heart attack, aged 75, at his home in Los Angeles, California, USA. A popular session pianist, working with Kid Ory and Big Joe Turner, Glenn was also a fine musical arranger. His solo career featured several r'n'b hits in the USA during the early 50s. (1985)
May 23 2013	Blues and jazz vocalist Kevin Mahogany plays at The Philharmonic Concert Hall, Cherkassy, Ukraine, Eastern Europe. (2013)