Pilgrimage to Music Part 8 : 1934 -1937 Music Facts & Events

1934 John Lomax and his son Alan begin recording black music of the southern states, and discover the gospel genre of "rocking and reeling"

Laurens Hammond invents the Hammond organ

The first magazine devoted to jazz music, Down Beat, is published

1935 The radio program "Hit Parade" is launched




Woody Guthrie writes the Dust Bowl Ballads and becomes the first major singer-songwriter



Max Gordon founds the jazz club "Village Vanguard" in New York

1936 Bluesman Robert Johnson cuts his first record

Carl Stalling begins scoring the soundtracks for Warner Brothers' cartoons

The Gibson company produces its first electric guitar, the ES-150


 
1937 Records by the "big bands" are the best sellers

 


One O'Clock Jump" is an instrumental twelve-bar blues composition by Count Basie. It was used as the theme song of Basie's band. The song was partly written by saxophonist Buster Smith, but co-credit was denied by Basie. An influential performance was by Benny Goodman in his 1938 Carnegie Hall concert.



The mambo is born in Cuba

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