1922 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1922.
Musicians born that year included Carmen McRae and Charles Mingus.

Jazz scene

In 1922, the jazz age was well underway. Chicago and New York City were becoming the most important centres for jazz, and jazz was becoming very profitable for jazz managers such as Paul Whiteman. Whiteman by 1922 managed some 28 different jazz ensembles on the East Coast of the United States, earning over a $1,000,000 in 1922.
Despite its popularity, as a form of music Jazz was still not appreciated by many critics, including Anne Faulkner who passed off jazz as "a destructive dissonance", asking if the music "put the sin in syncopation" and Henry van Dyke who described jazz as "an unmitigated cacophony, a species of music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles".
Chicago in 1922 in particular was attracting bands such as Joe "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band at the Lincoln Gardens, joined by Louis Armstrong on August 8, 1922, and the Austin High Gang featuring Frank Teschemacher, Jimmy McPartland, Richard McPartland and Lawrence "Bud" Freeman who began playing at the Friar's Inn in Chicago. Meanwhile, on the New York scene, Duke Ellington arrived in New York City with Sonny Greer and banjo player Elmer Snowden and met his idol James P. Johnson, Fats Waller who had begun to make a name for himself with his piano rolls and Willie "The Lion" Smith.Coleman Hawkins, already well noted for his high level of profiency joined Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds and were later hired in New York by Fletcher Henderson.
Jazz began to emerge in the Soviet Union with the "First Eccentric Orchestra of the Russian Federated Socialist Republic – Valentin Parnakh's Jazz Band".

Standards

Standards published in 1922 included "Bugle Call Rag" and "Farewell Blues".

Births

; January3 – Geezil Minerve, Cuban-born alto saxophonist and flautist.4

* Arvid Gram Paulsen, Norwegian saxophonist and trumpeter.
* Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flautist.15 – Thelma Carpenter, American singer and actress.16 – Lina Romay, Mexican-American actress and singer.18 – Johnny Costa, American pianist.20 – Ray Anthony, American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.25 – Jimmy Wyble, American guitarist.26 – Page Cavanaugh, American pianist and singer.29 – Jack Sels, Belgian saxophonist.

; February6 – Conrad Gozzo, American trumpeter. 11 – Bob Carter, American bassist and arranger.14 – Pauline Braddy, African-American drummer, International Sweethearts of Rhythm.19 – Martin Slavin, British composer.22

* Joe Wilder, American trumpeter.
* Virtue Hampton Whitted, American singer and bassist.23 – John Carisi, American trumpeter and composer.

; March2

* Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American tenor saxophonist.
* Joe Morris, American trumpeter.19 – David "Buck" Wheat, American bassist.20 – Larry Elgart, American band leader.24 – King Pleasure, American singer.

; April1 – Duke Jordan, American pianist.8 – Carmen McRae, American singer, pianist and composer.17 – Paul Smith, American pianist.19 – Glauco Masetti, Italian jazz reedist.21 – Mundell Lowe, American guitarist, composer, and conductor.22

* Charles Mingus, American upright bassist and pianist.
* Lou Stein, American pianist.24 – Aaron Bell, American upright bassist.26 – Dorothy Donegan, American pianist.27 – Tale Ognenovski, Macedonian multi-instrumentalist.29 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian and American harmonica player and guitarist.

; May1 – Floyd "Candy" Johnson, American saxophonist.4 – King Fleming, American pianist and bandleader.5 – Monica Lewis, American singer and actress.12 – Gerald Wiggins, pianist and organist.15 – James Buffington, American hornist.16 – Eddie Bert, American trombonist.18 – Kai Winding, Danish-born American trombonist.19 – Terry Devon, British singer.29 – Bubba Brooks, American tenor saxophonist.
; June5 – Specs Powell, drummer.7 – Beryl Booker, American swing pianist.9 – Gösta Theselius, Swedish arranger, composer, film scorer, pianist, and saxophonist.15 – Jaki Byard, American multi-instrumentalist.19

* David van Kriedt, saxophonist.
* Mousey Alexander, American drummer.24 – Manny Albam, baritone saxophonist.25 – Johnny Smith, American guitarist.29 – Ralph Burns, American pianist, composer, and arranger.

; July5 – Bruce Turner, English saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.6 – Jiří Jelínek, Czech trumpeter and singer.17 – Danny Bank, American saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.20

* Ernie Wilkins, American saxophonist.
* Karel Krautgartner, Czech clarinetist and saxophonist.21 – Kay Starr, American singer.

; August1 – Charles W. LaRue, American trombonist.2 – Big Nick Nicholas, American saxophonist and singer.4 – Earl Swope, American trombonist.17

* Arv Garrison, American guitarist.
* Jack Sperling, American drummer.29 – Rolf Ericson, Swedish trumpeter and flugelhornist

; September7 – Joe Newman, American trumpeter.15 – Harry Betts, American trombonist.24 – Jack Costanzo, American percussionist.28 – Linda Vogt, Australian flautist.30 – Oscar Pettiford, American upright bassist, cellist and composer.
; October3 – Von Freeman, American tenor saxophonist.4 – Stan Hasselgård, Swedish clarinetist 5 – Jim Godbolt, English jazz historian and journalist 15 – Lorraine Gordon, American jazz music advocate, Village Vanguard jazz club.29 – Neal Hefti, American trumpeter and composer.30 – Illinois Jacquet, American tenor saxophonist.31 – Ted Nash, American saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist.
; November4 – Ralph Sutton, American pianist.7 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader.12 – Lou Blackburn, American trombonist.29 – Bobby Donaldson, American drummer.
; December8 – Sol Yaged, American clarinetist.14 – Cecil Payne, American baritone saxophonist.18 – Big Miller, American singer and bassist.