is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1938. Benny Goodman performs The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert. May 25 – Dick McDonough, American...

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its...

The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of swing and jazz music recorded...

The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (Russian: Сюита для джазового оркестра №2) is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly...

1938 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1938. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII)...

notable events in music that took place in the year 1938. 1938 in British music 1938 in Norwegian music 1938 in country music 1938 in jazz January 16 Benny...

1938) was an American jazz cornet player and bandleader. He was particularly recognized for his playing style and his pioneering use of mutes in jazz...

Eric Gale (September 20, 1938 – May 25, 1994) was an American jazz and jazz fusion guitarist. Eric Gale was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York...

Alfred McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938 – March 6, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet from...

(ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz record ever issued....