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A history of jazz
A history of jazz in 50 key moments, as chosen by Guardian and Observer writers
Find the Guardian's full history of modern music
17 June 2011
What would you include in your version of the history of jazz?
Buddy Bolden 'invents' jazz
The first divas of the blues
Louis Armstrong buys a cornet
The first jazz recording
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall
Django reinhardt's caravan catches fire
The first electric guitar
Art Tatum stuns his contemporaries in New York
Duke Ellington's mother dies
Nat King Cole: the reluctant vocalist
A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him
Jazz gets a history
Billie Holiday ends her set with Strange Fruit
Coleman Hawkins records Body and Soul
Thelonious Monk buys a hat
Mary Lou Williams gets a weekly radio show
Gil Evans's informal salon
Chano Pozo meets Dizzy Gillespie
The Modern Jazz Quartet buy tuxedos
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