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History of Jazz Timeline: 1903
W.C. Handy hears the Rural Blues played on a slide guitar (knife blade
used as a slide) by an itinerant Blues guitarist in a railroad station
in Tutwiler, Mississippi. It sparks a career for him and it is an
important event in Amercan popular music history.
Sidney Bechet borrows his brother's clarinet. The rest is history.
Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke is born in Davenport, Iowa on March 10. Bix's
family is a proper Victorian type family and they do not approve of
popular music as a career.
Jimmy Rushing (Mr. Five-by Five) is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on
August 26. Jimmy will be the primary male singer for the Count Basie band.
Valve trombonist/arranger Brad Gowans born in Billerica, MA.
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