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.

Ellington ended his association with Mills in 1937, although he continued to record under Mills ' banner through to 1940.

After the Master and Variety labels collapsed in late 1937, Mills placed Ellington back on Brunswick and those small group units on Vocalion through 1940, when Ellington signed back to Victor ( and the small groups were placed on Bluebird ).

The feature " Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue " comprised two tunes that had been in the band's book since 1937 but largely forgotten until Ellington, who had abruptly ended the band's scheduled set because of the late arrival of four key players, called the two tunes as the time was approaching midnight.

Ray Nance performed on trumpet and violin, 1937 to 1939, before moving on to the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

" Notably, Webb lost to Duke Ellington in 1937.

What Ellington contributed to the Cotton Club is priceless and is summed up perfectly in this 1937 New York Times excerpt: " So long may the empirical Duke and his music making roosters reign-and long may the Cotton Club continue to remember that it came down from Harlem ".

On 1 September 1937, Newall was appointed as Chief of the Air Staff, the military head of the RAF, in succession to Sir Edward Ellington.

* 1937, Ellington Court, Southgate, London

Following completion of his term as Chief of the Air Staff, Ellington became Inspector-General of the RAF on 1 September 1937.

After Gordon was introduced to Duke Ellington in 1937, Ellington sometimes invited Gordon to put words to his compositions.

Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.

* 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

Worldwide fame in 1933 brought him the commission of building a meditation temple in India for Maharajah of Indore, but when Brâncuși went to India in 1937 to complete the plans and begin construction, the Mahrajah was away and lost interest in the project when he returned.

It was taken from Ethiopia by Benito Mussolini's troops in 1937 as a war chest, and returned on 18 April 2005.

Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O ' Shaughnessy home at Greenwich.

In March 1937, Alexander was appointed as one of the aides-de-camp to the recently acceded King George VI and in May returned to the United Kingdom to take part in this capacity in the state procession through London during the King's coronation.

Following the coronation celebration, Alexander returned to India, where he was made the honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Punjab Regiment, and then in October 1937 was promoted to the rank of major-general, making Alexander the youngest general in the British Army.

In 1937 Eccles returned to Australia, where he worked on military research during World War II.

In July 1958, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda returned to the country after a long absence in the United States ( where he had obtained his medical degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 ), the United Kingdom ( where he practised medicine ), and Ghana.

When Franco ordered Paraguayan troops to abandon the advanced positions in the Chaco that they had held since the 1935 truce, the army revolted in August 1937 and returned the Liberals to power.

He returned in 1937 to deliver the Terry Lectures, Psychology and Religion, at Yale University.

In 1937 he returned to the University of Minnesota and earned a bachelor's degree in 1939.

By 1937, after five years, the 31-year-old Huston returned to Hollywood intent on being a " serious writer.

" However, from time to time his inspiration returned, as it did on a trip to Jamaica in 1937.

Foster returned to do the Tarzan Sunday strip beginning September 27, 1931, continuing until Burne Hogarth took over the Sunday Tarzan on May 9, 1937.

Since the 1980s, however, there has been a big increase in straw quality as specialist growers have returned to growing older, tall-stemmed, ' heritage ' varieties of wheat such as Squareheads Master ( 1880 ), N59 ( 1959 ), Rampton Rivet ( 1937 ), Victor ( 1910 ) and April Bearded ( early 1800s )

In 1937, Prima and his smaller gang ( Federico, Masinter, Pinero, and Meyer Weinberg on clarinet ) returned to the " Famous Door " in New York to perform.

However, " citrus tomatoes " proved unsuccessful, and the Romoland Fruit Co. returned to marketing its oranges as " blood oranges " in 1937.

They returned to re-observe the community during the Depression and published Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts ( 1937 ).

As such, The Shadow returned to network airwaves on September 26, 1937, over the new Mutual Broadcasting System.

He returned to conduct the orchestra in 1937, 1938 and 1939, and declared, " This is the orchestra I would like to take round the world.

In 1937 he returned to New York where he appeared at clubs and played on national radio programs.

By 1937, Lee had grown bored with her life in Cairo and she returned to Paris, where she met the British surrealist painter and curator Roland Penrose, whom she later would marry.

* 1937: the Cotton Club, all the rage in New York, is put on at the Moulin Rouge ; Ray Ventura and his Collegians also appear.

Cotton merchants on Union Avenue ( 1937 )

In 1937, Byas moved to New York to work with the Eddie Mallory band, accompanying Mallory ’ s wife, the singer Ethel Waters, on tour, and at the Cotton Club.

The Cotton Bowl Classic called its namesake home since the bowl's inception in 1937 until the 2010 game.

Cotton had been the primary product and by 1937, denims, awnings and tickings were the principal output.

* 1937 – Too Much Johnson, Mercury Theatre Company, Director: Orson Welles ; Writers: William Gillette and Orson Welles ; Starring Joseph Cotton as Augustus Billings and Ruth Ford as Mrs. Billings.

In fact a 1937 New York Times article writes, " The Cotton Club has climbed aboard the Broadway bandwagon, wish a show that is calculated to give the customers their money ’ s worth of sound and color – and it does ".

* In 1937, the first Cotton Bowl Classic is played in Fair Park.

By 1940, there were five major college bowl games: the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl ( 1935 ), the Cotton Bowl Classic ( 1937 ), the Orange Bowl ( 1935 ), and the Sun Bowl ( 1935 ).

Part of the estate became Ashridge Golf Club in 1932, and had Henry Cotton as its club professional in the late 1930s, including his most successful year 1937.

He also led TCU to two bowl game wins, a 3 – 2 victory over Louisiana State in the 1936 Sugar Bowl, and a 16-6 victory over Marquette in the first annual Cotton Bowl Classic in 1937 after which he was named MVP.

* Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson ( 1902 – 1988 ), Geneticist, Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, 1937 – 1957, and Draper's Professor of Agriculture, University of Cambridge, 1957 – 1969

The team disbanded soon after 1935 and in 1937 Casino Park was leased to a local white team — Monroe Twins who became the Monroe White Sox in 1938 — who played in the Cotton States League.

* Cotton Queen ( 1937 )