1911 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1911.

March

 * 18 – The Irving Berlin album Alexander's Ragtime Band was released.

Unknown date

 * The composer and pianist Scott Joplin published his opera Treemonisha.

Births

 * January
 * 25 – Truck Parham, American upright bassist (died 2002).
 * 30
 * Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpeter (died 1989).
 * Frank Weir, British orchestra leader and saxophonist (died 1981).


 * March
 * 7 — Louis Cottrell Jr., American clarinetist and tenor saxophonist (died 1978).
 * 10 – Pete Clarke, British saxophonist and clarinetist (died 1975).
 * 16 – Harper Goff, Afro-Cuban clarinetist, saxophonist, and trumpeter (died 1993).
 * 31 – Freddie Green, American guitarist (died 1987).


 * April
 * 2 — Cag Cagnolatti, American trumpeter (died 1983).
 * 12 – Tullio Mobiglia, Italian saxophonist and bandleader (died 1991).
 * 16 – Alton Purnell, American pianist (died 1987).
 * 21
 * John G. Blowers Jr. or Johnny Blowers, American drummer (died 2006).
 * Zilas Görling, Swedish saxophonist (died 1960).
 * 28
 * Mario Bauza, American artist, musician, and actor (died 1993).
 * Norma Teagarden, American pianist (died 1996).


 * May
 * 8 — Robert Johnson, American guitarist, singer, and composer (died 1938).
 * 13 – Billy Munn, British jazz pianist and arranger (died 2000).
 * 13 – Maxine Sullivan, American vocalist and performer (died 1987).
 * 18 – Big Joe Turner, American blues shouter (died 1985).


 * July
 * 7 — Charles Redland, Swedish saxophonist, bandleader, and composer (died 1994).
 * 10 – Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (died 1985).
 * 17 – Lionel Ferbos, American trumpeter (died 2014).
 * 23 – Lodewijk Parisius "Kid Dynamite", Surinamese-Dutch tenor saxophonist (died 1963).


 * August
 * 20 – Billy Amstell, British reedist (died 2005).
 * 28 – George Clarke, American tenor saxophonist (died 1985).


 * September
 * 30 – Clare Deniz, British pianist (died 2002).


 * October
 * 7 — Jo Jones, American drummer (died 1985).
 * 8 — Karel Vlach, Czech musician, orchestra conductor, and arranger (died 1986).
 * 26 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (died 1972).


 * November
 * 11 – Dick Wilson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (died 1941).
 * 12 – Buck Clayton, American trumpeter (died 1991).
 * 17 – Max Miller, American pianist and vibraphonist (died 1985).
 * 21 – Alvin Burroughs, American drummer (died 1950).
 * 22 – Ernie Caceres, American saxophonist (died 1971).


 * December
 * 14 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (died 1965).
 * 15 – Stan Kenton, American pianist, composer, arranger, and band leader (died 1979).
 * 19 – Lu Watters, American trumpeter and band leader, Yerba Buena Jazz Band (died 1989).


 * Unknown date
 * Aldo Rossi, Italian reedist and bandleader (died 1980).