Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 22 1914	Herman Blount is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He will grow up to be avant-garde jazz band leader and composer Sun Ra. (1914)
May 22 1925	The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago records The Whole World Is Dreaming Of Love and I Had Someone Else Before I Had You (And I'll Have Someone After You're Gone) for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA. (1925)
May 22 1929	Boogie-woogie pianist Cow Cow Davenport records We Gonna Rub It and Texas Shout, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Vocalion Records. (1929)
May 22 1930	Ambrose And his Orchestra, record A Bench In The Park, A Japanese Dream, 'Leven-Thirty Saturday Night, Lazy Lou'siana Moon and I'm Telling The World About You, at the Small Queen's Hall, London, UK, for HMV Records. (1930)
May 22 1931	Jazz trumpet player and bandleader Kenny Ball is born in Ilford, Essex, UK. (1931)
May 22 1935	Popular vocalist Leslie Hutchinson records the Cole Porter song Two Little Babes In The Woods, in London, UK. (1935)
May 22 1939	Harry Roy and His Orchestra play at The Alhambra, Bradford, UK. (1939)
May 22 1940	Larry Clinton and His Orchestra record the Hoagy Carmichael composition The Nearness Of You for Victor Records in the USA. (1940)
May 22 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 22 1941	Harry James And His Orchestra play in The Hotel Lincoln, New York City, USA. (1941)
May 22 1944	Count Basie And His Orchestra play at The Hotel Lincoln, New York City, USA. (1944)
May 22 1950	Jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet records My Old Gal, Slow Down Baby, Hot Rod and You Gotta Change in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 22 1950	Jazz saxophonist Eddie Cleanhead Vinson records Queen Bee Blues, Jump And Grunt, If You Don't Think I'm Sinking and My Big Brass Bed Is Gone for King Records in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 22 1950	Jazz clarinettist George Lewis, with trumpet player Elmer Talbert, records Willie The Weeper, Make Me A Pallet On the Floor, Sheik Of Araby, Jerusalem Blues, 2:19 Blues and other songs in Philiberto?s Music Store, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The tracks will be released on an album entitled Jam Session. (1950)
May 22 1950	Billy Cotton And His Band, with vocalist Alan Breeze, play at The Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. (1950)
May 22 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the eighth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 22 1950	Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the eighth night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 22 1950	Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the second night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 22 1950	Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the second of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 22 1953	When The Charlie Parker Quartet plays at Birdland, New York City, USA, the show is broadcast live by WJZ Radio. (1953)
May 22 1953	The Joe Daniels Band is in residence at Butlins, Ayr, Scotland. (1953)
May 22 1959	The Count Basie Orchestra, with Billy Eckstine on vocals, records Stormy Monday Blues, I Want A Little Girl (arranged by Quincy Jones), Drifting and other tracks in New York City, USA. (1959)
May 22 1961	Dizzy Gillespie records the album Perceptions for Verve Records in New York City, USA> (1961)
May 22 1961	Acker Bilk's Paramount Jazz Band plays at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK. (1961)
May 22 1962	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers play the second night of a two-week season at McKie's Disc Jockey Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1962)
May 22 1982	Tito Puente plays the penultimate night of a thirteen-night season at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, USA. (1982)