Ragtime is still popular, but it is dying. The first non-American Ragtime sheet music appears in London, England. English musician Vic Filmer begins playing Rags. American black music begins to gain appeal in Europe.
Dance craze starts.
Leadbelly hears New Orleans Jazz and is not intrigued or impressed. Django will become the first European to have a major influence on American Jazz players. Piano virtuoso Art Tatum is born in Toledo, Ohio on October 13. Clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw is born in New Haven, Connecticut. Trumpeter Roy Eldridge is born in Pittsburgh, Pa. on January 30.