Wilbur C. Sweatman (Brunswick, Missouri, February 7, 1882 - New York City March 9, 1961) was an African-American ragtime and jazz composer, bandleader, and clarinetist. Brunswick is a city located in Chariton County, Missouri. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or blacks, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West Africa. ... Ragtime is an American musical genre, enjoying its peak popularity around the years 1900–1918. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... A clarinetist (sometimes also spelled clarinettist) is a musician who plays the clarinet. ...

Sweatman started out playing violin, then switched to clarinet. He toured with circus bands in the late 1890s, and developed a famous act of playing three clarinets at once. He spent time playing with the bands of W.C. Handy and Mahara's Minstrels. He led a dance band in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902, where he made his first recordings on (now lost) phonograph cylinders that year or the following one. He wrote a number of rags, Down Home Rag being the most commercially successful. Sweatman moved to New York in 1913, where he became close friends with Scott Joplin, and Joplin named Sweatman as executor of his estate in his will. Sweatman enjoyed popularity with both White and Black audiences in New York, and started issuing recordings in 1916 for Emerson Records, then for Pathé. The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that color in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... W.C. Handy photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 - March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer, often known as The Father of the Blues. ... Downtown Minneapolis as viewed from the Stone Arch Bridge Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The earliest method of recording and reproducing sound was on cylinder phonograph recordings. ... Link title1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Scott Joplin (ca. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Emerson Records was a record label active in the United States of America from 1916 to 1928. ... Pathé Records was a France based international record label active from the 1890s through the 1930s. ...

After the commercial success of the Original Dixieland Jass Band the following year, Sweatman changed the sound and instrumentation of his band along the line of the early New Orleans jazz bands such as the Original Creole Orchestra and the Original Dixieland Jass Band. Sweatman was the first African American to make recordings labeled as "Jass" and "Jazz". (Since Sweatman can be heard making melodic variations even in his 1916 recordings, it might be argued that Sweatman recorded an archaic type of jazz earlier than the Original Dixieland band.) Sweatman's was the leading jazz band for Columbia Records until his popularity was surpassed by that of Ted Lewis. Shown are (left to right) Tony Sbarbaro (aka Tony Spargo) on drums; Edwin Daddy Edwards on trombone; D. James Nick LaRocca on cornet; Larry Shields on clarinet, and Henry Ragas on piano. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis (June 6, 1890-August 25, 1971), was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. ...

Sweatman opened the well known Harlem club Connie's Inn in 1923. He continued playing in New York through the early 1940s, then concentrated his efforts on the music publishing business. This article is about the Harlem neighborhood in New York City. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ...