Musicians In The 1930s

Al Bowlly in 1935 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rosetta Tharpe (c 1915 – 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. A pioneer of mid-20th-century music, she attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture of rhythmic cords that were precursors of rock and roll. She was the 1st artist to blend gospel music to rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll audiences. She influenced early rock-and-roll musicians, including Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Presl...

The Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly: 17 April 1941. - Flashbak

Musicians In The 1960s

Cab Calloway early 1930s

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Musicians From The 1930s

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27 Stunning Black and White Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in France in the 1930s and 1940s

Makin' sweet music together, 1930s

Musicians In The 1940s

Cab Callaway...

Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of a jazz orchestra. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle, and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music, rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.

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a singer and guitar player from Okemah, Oklahoma, became America’s best-known balladeer of the 1930s. He traveled all over the country writing folk songs such as "So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You," "Goin’ Down the Road

Jazz band du Perray (Vaucluse) Année inconnue.