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History of Jazz Time Line: 1913
- Thirteen year old Louis Armstrong is sent to a waif's home after he fires a pistol in celebration. This is where he learns to play cornet. The rest is history.
- Louis Armstrong is proud when he leads the waif's home band through his neighborhood.
- Fourteen year old Duke Ellington visits pool halls and burlesque theatres. He is introduced to the entertainment world that he will soon be a part of.
- According to stride pianist James P. Johnson, Luckyeth Roberts is the best stride piano player in New York City at this time.
- The stride pianists are still playing Ragtime as the New Orleans players did a generation before. So we will see an interesting evolution in their playing over the next few years that parallels the beginning of Jazz in New Orleans.
- Boogie Woogie piano player Jimmy Yancey quits vaudeville to work as a Chicago White Sox groundskeeper.
- On November 21, Coleman Hawkins' parents give him a C-Melody saxophone for his ninth birthday.
- British musician Vic Filmer brings Ragtime to Paris.
- Art Tatum is three years old and is already picking out hymns on the piano in Toledo.
- Future bandleader Woody Herman is born in Milwaukee, WI. on May 16. Contributed by Jack Twomey.
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