The first jazz concerto for piano and orchestra was presented at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Commissioned by Walter Damrosch, American composer George Gershwin presented "Concerto In F", and was also the featured soloist playing a flugelhorn in a slow, bluesy style as one of his numbers.
While performing "The Last Time." Keith Richards was electrocuted and knocked unconscious during a Rolling Stones concert in Sacramento, CA.
Ray Charles was fined $10,000 and given a five year suspended prison sentence after being convicted of possessing heroin and marijuana.
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Mickey Thomas - US singer; Elvin Bishop Group/Jefferson Starship Ozzy Osbourne/John Michael Osbourne - Singer; Black Sabbath/own band Vic Malcolm - UK lead guitarist; Geordie
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Bill Johnson (98) - US jazz musician considered the father of the "slap" style of string bass playing. He started "slapping" the strings of his bass (a more vigorous technique than the classical pizzicato), after he accidentally broke his bow on the road with his band in northern Louisiana in the early 1910s. Other New Orleans string bass players picked up this style, and spread it across the country with the spread of New Orleans Jazz. Johnson was founder and manager of the first jazz band to leave New Orleans and tour widely in the 1910s, The Original Creole Orchestra. He also played with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band, and made many fine recordings in Chicago . Hoyt Curtin (87) - composer and music producer, the main musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show Grady Martin (72) - Guitarist to Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly and played the riff on Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman' until his retirement in 1986. (heart failure)
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