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1942 in jazz

Jazz in 1942: 4 albums, 13 standards, 51 births and 4 deaths.

Albums released in 1942

Original Soundtrack Recording Of The Classic 1942 Film "Holiday Inn" 1942 Moanin' Low 1942 · Victor
Song Hits From the Paramount Picture Holiday Inn 1942
Hoagy Carmichael Plays, Sings and Whistles His Own Compositions 1942

Standards written in 1942

TitleComposerKeyFormGroove
Perdido Juan Tizol B♭ major AABA · 32 Latin
There Will Never Be Another You Harry Warren E♭ major ABAC · 32 Medium-up swing
Moonlight Becomes You Jimmy Van-Heusen F major AABA · 34 Ballad
God Bless The Child Herzog-Holiday E♭ major AABA · 38 Ballad
You've Changed Carl Fisher E♭ major AABA · 32 Ballad
At Last Harry Warren C major AABA · 32 Medium swing
I'll Be Around Alec Wilder C major AABA · 32 Ballad
Skylark Hoagy Carmichael E♭ major AABA · 32 Ballad
I'm Old Fashioned Jerome Kern F major ABC · 36 Medium swing
Salt Peanuts Dizzy Gillespie B♭ major AABA · 32 Up-tempo swing
I've Heard That Song Before Jule Styne C major ABAC · 32 Medium swing
Dearly Beloved Jerome Kern C major ABAC · 32 Medium swing
Baltimore Oriole Hoagy Carmichael G minor AB · 36 Ballad

Died in 1942

Jimmy Blanton 1918–1942 · American musician (1918–1942) Bunny Berigan 1908–1942 · American musician (1908-1942) Charlie Christian 1916–1942 · American swing and jazz guitarist (1916-1942) Jaroslav Ježek 1906–1942 · Czech conductor, Esperantist, composer and jazz musician…

Born in 1942

Barbra Streisand 1942 · American singer and actress (born 1942) Gilberto Gil 1942 · Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter… Caetano Veloso 1942 · Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and… John McLaughlin 1942 · English guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra Scatman John 1942–1999 · American musician (1942–1999) Andy Summers 1942 · British guitarist Jack DeJohnette 1942–2025 · American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer (1942–2025) Jean-Luc Ponty 1942 · French jazz violinist and composer Tomasz Stańko 1942–2018 · Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser (1942–2018) Philip Catherine 1942 · British-Belgian jazz rock guitarist Flora Purim 1942 · Brazilian jazz singer Yōsuke Yamashita 1942 · Japanese jazz pianist, composer and writer Anneke Grönloh 1942–2018 · Dutch singer (1942–2018) James Blood Ulmer 1942–2026 · American jazz and blues guitarist and singer Letta Mbulu 1942 · South African musician Nara Leão 1942–1989 · Brazilian singer (1942–1989) Freda Payne 1942 · American singer and actress (born 1942) Oliver Lake 1942 · American musician (born 1942) Marlena Shaw 1942–2024 · American female singer (1942–2024) Lonnie Smith 1942–2021 · American jazz musician (1942–2021) Han Bennink 1942 · Dutch musician (born 1942) John Taylor 1942–2015 · British jazz pianist (1942–2015) Buster Williams 1942 · American musician Al Lowe 1942 · musician and game designer (born 1946) Cornell Dupree 1942–2011 · American R&B/soul jazz guitarist (1942–2011) Joe Chambers 1942–2022 · American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer Ranee Lee 1942 · Canadian musician Jamie Muir 1942–2025 · British musician (1942–2025) Jiří Stivín 1942 · Czech flautist, composer, jazz musician… Richard Stoltzman 1942 · American musician Amina Claudine Myers 1942 · American musician Marc Moulin 1942–2008 · Belgian musician and journalist (1942–2008) Thomas Danneberg 1942–2023 · German actor (1942–2023) Larry Willis 1942–2019 · American jazz pianist and composer (1942–2019) Terumasa Hino 1942 · Japanese jazz trumpet player Jeremy Steig 1942–2016 · American jazz flutist (1942–2016) Andrew White 1942–2020 · American musician (1942-2020) Wendell Harrison 1942 · American musician Alan Skidmore 1942 · British saxophonist Charles Tolliver 1942 · American jazz trumpeter and composer Lennart Åberg 1942–2021 · Swedish saxophonist (1942–2021) Pete Levin 1942 · American jazz musician Peter Lemer 1942 · British musician Byard Lancaster 1942–2012 · American jazz musician (1942–2012) Cecil Bridgewater 1942 · American jazz trumpeter David Friesen 1942 · American jazz bassist Jon Lucien 1942–2007 · British Virgin Islands musician (1942–2007) Maki Asakawa 1942–2010 · Japanese singer (1942-2010) Dave Bargeron 1942–2025 · American trombonist and tuba player most famous for… Yolande Bavan 1942 · Sri Lankan actress and singer Faruq Z. Bey 1942–2012 · American musician (1942–2012)