September 1927 in Music History

Events in Music

Birthdays in Music

Sep 1 Tommy Evans, American doo-wop, and R&B singer (Drifters, 1956-62 - "Save The Last Dance For Me"), born in Wayne County, Michigan (d. 1984)
Sep 2 Tzvi Avni, Israeli classical composer (Meditations On A Drama), born in Saarbrücken, Germany
Sep 6 Keith Humble, Australian composer, born in Geelong, Australia (d. 1995)
Sep 7 Graham Dudley Whettam, British composer, born in Swinden, Wiltshire (d. 2007)
Sep 8 Charles "Specs" Wright, American jazz drummer (Dizzy Gillespie; Cannonball Adderly; Red Garland), born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia (d. 1963)
Sep 8 Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter ("I Fall To Pieces"; "Busted"; "Too Many Rivers"), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2002)
Sep 8 Harmonica Fats [Harvey Blackston], American blues session and touring harmonica player ("Tore Up"), born in McDade, Louisiana (d. 2000)
Sep 9 Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"), born in Pontiac, Michigan (d. 2004)
Sep 20 John Dankworth, English jazz musician and composer, born in Woodford, Essex, England (d. 2010)
Sep 20 Keith "Red" Mitchell, American jazz double bassist, composer, and lyricist (Hampton Hawes; André Previn), born in New York City (d. 1992)
Sep 21 Ward Swingle, American vocalist, jazz musician, composer, arranger, and conductor (The Swingle Singers - Jazz Sebastian Bach), born in Mobile, Alabama (d. 2015)
Sep 25 Sir Colin Davis, British conductor (Covent Garden, 1970-85; Bavarian Radio Symphony, 1983-93; London Symphony, 1995-2006), born in Weybridge, Surrey (d. 2013)
Sep 26 Romano Mussolini, Italian jazz pianist, and bandleader, born in Villa Carpena, Forlì, Kingdom Of Italy (d. 2006)
Sep 27 "Earring" George Mayweather, American blues harmonica player, born in Montgomery, Alabama (d. 1995)
Sep 27 Boris Porena, Italian composer, music theorist, poet, and writer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 2022)
Sep 27 Red Rodney [Robert Chudnick], American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker Quintet), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1994)
Sep 30 Hossein Dehlavi, Persian composer, conductor and teacher (Sarbaz; Plectrum Orchestra), born in Tehran, Persia (d. 2019)