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1917 in music

See also: 1916 in music, other events of 1917, 1918 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

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3 Hit Recordings

First Jazz recordings made by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
First African American jazz recordings made by Wilber Sweatman's Band

"Rockaway" by Howard Johnson[?]
"Huckleberry Finn" by Cliff Hess[?]
"My Sunshine Jane" by Keirn Brennan[?]
"The Bombo-Shay" by Henry Creamer
"Indiana" by Ballard MacDonald[?]
"Hawaiian Butterfly" by George Little[?]
"Lily of the Valley" by L.W. Gilbert
"Some Sunday Morning" by Gus Kahn[?]
"Livery Stable Blues" by Alcide Nunez & Ray Lopez[?]
"At the Darktown Strutters Ball" by Shelton Brooks

Hit Recordings

"Livery Stable Blues/Dixie Jass One Step" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band

January 10 - Jerry Wexler[?], record producer
March 17 - Nat King Cole (+ 1965)
March 26 - Rufus Thomas[?]
May 28 - Papa John Creach[?], Hot Tuna
June 30 - Lena Horne[?]
August 22 - John Lee Hooker
October 6 - Bob Neal[?], ex-Presley manager
October 10 - Thelonius Monk
October 21 - Dizzy Gillespie

April 1 - Scott Joplin

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