* 1904 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician, composer, and bandleader ( The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers ) ( b. 1904 )

* Jimmy Dorsey

** Jimmy Dorsey, American jazz musician ( b. 1904 )

* February 29 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader ( d. 1957 )

On his last recording session, in New York, on September 15, 1930, Beiderbecke played on the original recording of Hoagy Carmichael's new song, " Georgia on My Mind ", with Carmichael doing the vocal, Eddie Lang on guitar, Joe Venuti on violin, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto saxophone, Jack Teagarden on trombone, and Bud Freeman on tenor saxophone.

Competition was also intensifying, as African-American and white swing bands began to receive popular attention, including those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Benny Carter, Earl Hines, Chick Webb, and Count Basie.

* Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes

The popularity of many of the major bands was amplified by star vocalists, such as Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, Helen O ' Connell and Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Billie Holiday and Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie, Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest with Harry James, Doris Day with Les Brown, Toni Arden and Ken Curtis with Shep Fields and Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman.

* Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey-famous jazz musicians and bandleaders were born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.

* Charlie Turner-Trumpeter who played for and with many great musicians, including Jimmy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra.

Cedar Grove was once home to Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook Ballroom, located on Route 23, which regularly hosted well-known bands and vocalists, including Buddy Rich, Glenn Miller, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, and Jo Stafford.

Presley made his national television debut on January 28, appearing on CBS's Stage Show, starring Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.

* Jimmy Dorsey, big band leader.

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

Included in this group are Bing Crosby's original recording of ' White Christmas ' and thousands more by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, the Andrews Sisters and other famous and lesser-known musicians who recorded during this time period.

Lewis's clarinet playing barely evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and Don Murray to play clarinet in his band.

Nevertheless, they found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the swing and jazz idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major big bands, including those led by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby ( Bing's brother ), Desi Arnaz, Guy Lombardo, Les Brown, Bunny Berigan, Xavier Cugat, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Nelson Riddle and mood-master Gordon Jenkins, whose orchestra and chorus accompanied them on such successful soft and melancholy renditions as " I Can Dream, Can't I?

While the compositions and performances were credited to " Jimmy Thudpucker ", they were in fact co-written and sung by Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for " Ginny's Song ", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. Label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits, an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver's subsidiary of RCA Records ).

Novello co-wrote the first tune with M. Davich, and the second tune is an Italian language cover of " MacArthur Park ", the Jimmy Webb song, in an arrangement similar to that recorded by Richard Harris.

His first hit was in 1932 with " That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine ," a duet with fellow railroad man, Jimmy Long, and which Autry and Long co-wrote, which was parodied by Sesame Street as " That Furry Blue Mommy Of Mine.

Recently, Woliner also directed and co-wrote the live-action version of Robert Smigel's " Ambiguously Gay Duo " starring Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Steve Carell, and Stephen Colbert for NBC's " Saturday Night Live ".

Frank Sinatra co-wrote a song with Jimmy Saunders called " Peachtree Street " in 1950.

The last lineup of The Champs, in 1965, included Johnny Trombore, who co-wrote some songs with Jimmy Seals, Maurice Marshall, Dash Crofts, bassist Curtis Paul and Seal's replacement on saxophone, Keith MacKendrick.

Kenny Chesney charted in 2000 with the Top 10 single " I Lost It ", which band member Jimmy Olander co-wrote with Neil Thrasher.

They included his biggest success, " Dancing in the Street ", which he co-wrote with Hunter and Marvin Gaye ; " It Takes Two " ( Gaye and Weston ), " Ask the Lonely " for the Four Tops, Jimmy Ruffin's " What Becomes of the Brokenhearted ", " My Baby Loves Me " ( Martha & The Vandellas ), " Uptight ( Everything's Alright )" for Stevie Wonder and Gaye's " Stubborn Kind of Fellow ".

In addition, he co-wrote and directed the independent film Southie ( 1998 ) starring Amanda Peet, Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan, Anne Meara, Will Arnet, Jimmy Cummings and Lawrence Tierney.

* 1925 – Jimmy Smith, American jazz organist ( d. 2005 )

In 1943, Jimmy Savile launched the world's first DJ dance party by playing jazz records in the upstairs function room of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds in Otley, England.

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.

However, by the 1950s, jazz musicians such as Jimmy Smith began to use the organ's distinctive sound.

In the hands of Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow, who had absorbed the language of bebop, the guitar began to be seen as a “ serious ” jazz instrument.

* 1926 – Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger

Lacy began his career at sixteen playing Dixieland music with much older musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen, Pee Wee Russell, George " Pops " Foster and Zutty Singleton and then with Kansas City jazz players like Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, and Jimmy Rushing.

* April 26 – Jimmy Giuffre, American jazz musician ( died 2008 )

The short-lived Jimmy Blanton transformed the use of double bass in jazz, allowing it to function as a solo rather than a rhythm instrument alone.

Many of the finest jazz singers, including Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, and Dinah Washington, have avoided scat entirely.

These ideas were extended in the 1962 Free Fall recording by jazz clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre's trio, featuring music that was often freely and spontaneously improvised, and which had only tenuous similarity to established jazz styles.

While Davis ' explorations of modal jazz were sporadic throughout the 1960s — he would include several of the tunes from Kind of Blue in the repertoire of his " Second Great Quintet "— Coltrane would take the lead in extensively exploring the limits of modal improvisation and composition with his own classic quartet, featuring Elvin Jones ( drums ), McCoy Tyner ( piano ), and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison ( bass ).

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

* Continuum ( jazz group ), a jazz supergroup consisting of Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Ron Carter, Art Taylor, Kenny Barron

He continued working the city's piano bar circuit and earned the nickname " Ragtime Jimmy ," before he joined one of the first recognizable jazz bands in New York, the Original New Orleans Jazz Band.

The Jimmy Giuffre Trio ( with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow ) received little attention during their original incarnation from 1960 – 62, but afterwards were regarded as one of the most innovative free jazz ensembles.

The Delta Museum, which is now housed in the former post office building in downtown Ferriday, honors Mickey Gilley, Jerry Lee Lewis, journalist Howard K. Smith, evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Hollywood socialite Ann Boyar Warner and jazz musician Pee Wee Whittaker.

Also, in the 1970s Jerry Reed song " Amos Moses ," in the 1990s George Strait song " Adalida ," in Dan Baird's 1992 song " Dixie Beauxderaunt ," the 1999 Jimmy Buffett song " I will Play for Gumbo ," the 2008 Toby Keith song " Creole Woman ," and its name is the title of a song by jazz songstress Marcia Ball.