Musicians born that year included the drummer Max Roach and singers Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington.

In 1924, Leopold Stokowski, the British orchestral conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, observed that jazz had "come to stay.

"[8] Black jazz entrepreneur and producer Clarence Williams recorded groups in New Orleans, among them Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong.

[9] Noted Classic Blues singer Bessie Smith began to achieve major fame.

"[20] The American composer and critic, Virgil Thomson, wrote in 1924 that jazz rhythm shakes but doesn't flow; it lacks a climax; and it "never gets anywhere emotionally".