Important musical events during the jazz age?

i just need a few important events that occured in relation to music during the jazz age (1918-1929)

things like important records or performances

Important musical events during the jazz age?theatre

1918 Trumpeter King Oliver leaves New Orleans for Chicago. Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins tours with blues singer Mamie Smith and begins to develop a unique style of playing

1919 The Original Dixieland Jass Band performs in London. Will Marion Cook tours Europe with his Southern Syncopated Orchestra which includes clarinetist Sidney Bechet. After the tour Bechet stays in Europe. New Orleans trombonist Kid Ory moves to Los Angeles and forms a band, bringing jazz to new ears

1920 Blues singer Mamie Smith records Crazy Blues, making it the first blues recording by a black singer. Pianist and composer Duke Ellington forms a dance band in Washington DC with drummer Sonny Greer. Charlie Parker is born

1921 The town of Zion, Illinois bans jazz performances, labeling them "sinful." Pianist James P. Johnson records The Harlem Strut and Carolina Shout, the earliest stride piano recordings, in New York

1924 Duke Ellington makes his first recordings as leader of the Washingtonians. George Gershwin debuts Rhapsody in Blue along with Paul Whiteman's band. Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, make their first recordings

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