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

Events

March

• 18 – The Irving Berlin album Alexander's Ragtime Band was released.^[1]

Unknown date

• The composer and pianist Scott Joplin published his opera Treemonisha.^[2]

Standards

Births

January

• 25 – Truck Parham, American upright bassist (died 2002).
• 30
  • Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpeter (died 1989).^[3]
  • 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).^[4]
• 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).^[5]
  • 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).^[6]
• 17 – Lionel Ferbos, American trumpeter (died 2014).^[7]
• 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).^[8]
• 12 – Buck Clayton, American trumpeter (died 1991).
• 17 – Max Miller, American pianist and vibraphonist (died 1985).
• 21 – Alvin Burroughs, American drummer (died 1950).^[9]
• 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).