A history of modern music
A history of modern music as chosen by Guardian and Observer writers
Steve 'Silk' Hurley's Jack Your Body is No 1 in the UK
Harry Smith issues his famous Anthology
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Buddy Bolden 'invents' jazz
The first divas of the blues
Louis Armstrong buys a cornet
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
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
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