With the success of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool, Warner Bros. purchased a majority interest in First National in September 1928.

It was clear that Edison originally intended to create a sound film system, which would not gain worldwide recognition until the release of " The Jazz Singer " in 1927.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

A lot of attempts were made before the success of the Jazz Singer, that can be seen in the List of film sound systems.

" When he saw Al Jolson singing in The Jazz Singer in 1927, considered the first talkie, Capra recalled his reaction:

The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was not only the first film with synchronized dialogue, but the first feature film that was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face ;" " Toot, Toot, Tootsie ", " Blue Skies " and " My Mammy ".

* 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

Lee starred and sang in the hit films The Jazz Singer, Disney's Lady and the Tramp, and Pete Kelly's Blues, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1952 Lee played opposite Danny Thomas in a remake of the early Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer.

After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, " talkies " became more and more commonplace.

Although the release of The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ) by Warner Brothers marked the first commercially successful sound film, silent films were the majority of features released in both 1927 and 1928, along with so-called goat-glanded films: silents with a section of sound film inserted.

As a result of the financial problems the studio was having, Warner Bros. took the next step and released The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.

Thanks to the success of The Jazz Singer, the studio was cash-rich.

With the success of these first talkies ( The Jazz Singer, Lights of New York, The Singing Fool, and The Terror ), Warner Bros. became one of the top studios in Hollywood and the brothers were now able to move out from the Poverty Row section of Hollywood and acquire a big studio in Burbank, California.

* Warner Brothers produces the first movie with a soundtrack Don Juan in 1926, followed by the first Part-Talkie The Jazz Singer in 1927, the first All-Talking movie Lights of New York in 1928 and the first All-Color All-Talking movie On with the Show, 1929.

* October 6 – The Jazz Singer opens in the United States and it becomes a huge success, although it would be a while before silent films are completely gone.

* Day of Atonement ( play ), a play by Samson Raphaelson, which became the 1927 film The Jazz Singer

One week after the marriage, The Jazz Singer was released.

The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927.

Newspaper ad from a fully equipped theater in Tacoma, Washington, showing The Jazz Singer ( 1927 film ) | The Jazz Singer, on Vitaphone, and a Fox newsreel, on Movietone sound system | Movietone, together on the same bill.

Then, on October 6, 1927, Warner Bros .' The Jazz Singer premiered.

Though the success of The Jazz Singer was due largely to Jolson, already established as one of America's biggest music stars, and its limited use of synchronized sound hardly qualified it as an innovative sound film ( let alone the " first "), the movie's profits were proof enough to the industry that the technology was worth investing in.

* " At the Jazz Band Ball " / " Jazz Me Blues ", recorded on October 5, 1927, in New York and released as Okeh 40923

Sam died of pneumonia in 1927 ( just before the premiere of the first feature-length talking picture, The Jazz Singer ), and Jack became sole head of production.

Sound film had been captivating audiences since 1927 with The Jazz Singer and Walt decided that the next cartoon Steamboat Willie would have sound.

It came right at the beginning of the sound film era, with the very first feature sound film, The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), having been released just months earlier.

Al Jolson in his hit 1927 sound film, The Jazz Singer ( 1927 film ) | The Jazz Singer.

In 1927, after the successful release of the first full-length talking picture, The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), he nevertheless felt that talking pictures were a fad.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

* Affinity ( band ), A Jazz / Rock band active in the late 60s and early 70s

There are also important festivals of Jazz ( July ), Bayonne ham ( Holy Week ), theatre and pelota ( the Basque sport ).

They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

Jazz Impressions of the USA ( 1956, Morello's debut with the group ), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia ( 1958 ), Jazz Impressions of Japan ( 1964 ), and Jazz Impressions of New York ( 1964 ) are less well-known albums, but all are brilliant examples of the quartet's studio work, and they produced Brubeck standards such as " Summer Song ," " Brandenburg Gate ," " Koto Song ," and " Theme From Mr. Broadway.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

He won his first Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance for his work on the soundtrack.

The term " Jazz " was first applied to a style of music and dance during WWI.

Jamiroquai's first single, " When You Gonna Learn ", was released in 1992 on the Acid Jazz label.

Reiko Obata, founder of East West Jazz band, is the first to perform and record an album of jazz standards featuring koto.

Chicago Jazz wrote: " From the first note of Jazz Impressions, you know you're in for something interesting and different.

Connick won his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance.

Connick won his first Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance.

* February 26 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records their first commercial record, with the tunes " Livery Stable Blues " and " Dixie Jazz Band One Step ".

* The first Jazz music is recorded.

* April 6 – Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, " Chimes Blues ," with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.