| 1920 | "Ragtime for Eleven Instruments" by Igor Stravinsky, is first performed on this day. The inside cover of the score was designed by Picasso.
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| 1928 | "Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody", written by James P. Johnson, the 'Father of Stride" piano, is performed by protégé Fats Waller at Carnegie Hall. |
| 1929 | New Orleans, Louisiana native Jimmie Noone and his Apex Club Orchestra recorded for Supertone Records in Chicago, Illinois on this day. They recorded the Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn composition, Love Me Or Leave Me. |
| 1946 | New Orleans native son Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong recorded in New York City on this day, and the songs were No Variety Blues and Linger In My Arms A Little Longer. |
| 1950 | New Orleans Louisiana native, Sidney Bechet records Jelly Roll Blues, At A Georgia Camp Meeting, National Emblem March, Hindustan and I'll Take That New Orleans Music for Commodore Records in New York City on this day. |
| 1950 | Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong And His All Stars recorded for Decca Records in New York City on this day. The song they recorded was the legendary tune, My Bucket's Got A Hole In It. |
| 1957 | Vic Gaspard, traditional jazz trombonist and baritone horn player from New Orleans, Louisiana passed away on this day at the age of 82. He came from a musical family that included his brother, Oak, a string bassist, who worked the New Orleans circuit. At the turn of the century Vic worked with the 'Onward Brass Band', 'Peerless Orchestra' and the 'Excelsior Brass Band'. He worked with John Robichaux and his brother 'Oak' as coleader of the 'Maple Leaf Orchestra' through 1930. He retired from music before the Depression.
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| 1961 | Louisiana-born country guitarist and singer, Herman E. Johnson recorded tracks for his LP Louisiana Country Blues, in Baton Rouge, Lousiana for Arhoolie Records' on this day. |
| 1963 | Little Peggy March's 'I Will follow Him' peaked at #1 on the Billboard charts on this day.
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| 1967 | Ben Webster and Bill Coleman record jazz in London.
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| 1968 | Lake Charles, Louisiana native, Jackie Lee, hit the Billboard R&B charts on this day with the tune 'African Boo-Ga-Loo'.
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| 1970 | Ray Lopez, traditional jazz cornetist from New Orleans, Louisiana passed away on this day. He was born in 1889, and was a member of 'Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland', that went to Chicago in 1915. He later toured with the 'Five Rubes' and became a movie studio musician. Ray died in Los Angeles, California.
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| 1982 | Camille Lucie Nickerson, a pianist, composer, music educator, music historian and a native of New Orleans, Louisiana passed away on this day at the age of 93. Her father was a renowned music teacher and violinist who's students included Jelly Roll Morton, Emma Barrett, Henry Kimball, and Manuel Manetta. she taught with her father from 1916 until 1926 at the Nickerson School of Music and founded the B-Sharp Music Club, which became the New Orleans branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians in February 1917. In 1930, she published many Creole songs, and wrote a masters thesis: Africo-Creole Music in Louisiana (masters thesis, Oberlin, 1932). In 1932, she received a Master of Music degree from Oberlin. She began to perform Creole songs as “The Louisiana Lady,” in order to educate the public about Creole songs and to keep them alive. |
| 1991 | Amy Grant was smokin' at the top of the pop charts with her hit 'Baby Baby'.
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| 1999 | Al Hirt, traditional jazz trumpeter from New Orleans, Louisiana passed away on this day at the age of 76. Hirt was internationally famous and originally trained in the symphony. He was also considered a virtuoso, and known for his physical presence. He played sparingly with Pete Fountain, and was a member of the WWL-Big 870 house band in the early days called the 'Dawnbusters'. For a time he owned a club and performed on Bourbon Street. Hirt's brother Gerald 'Slick' Hirt was a tombonist and played in New Orleans with Al for a time in the 1960's.
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