and jazz clubs in 20s to 40s required a loud solo instrument to fill a big hall (Trumper, Saxophone) Although, we know jazzflute started to emerge in 20s. The earliest known recording of a jazzflute being used as solo instrument, was by Cuban clarnetist Alberto Socarras, recording "Shooting the Pistol" with Clarence Williams band and setting a milestone for future jazzflutist. While acknowleding the contribution to the early pioneers, jazz historians credit saxophonist Wayman Carver as being the first true jazz flutist, whilst recording extensively in the 30s. Tunes like "Loveless Love" in 1931 and "Sweet Sue, just You" in 1933 with Spike Hughes band. In the forties, multiinstrumentalist Jerome Richardson, joined Lionel Hamptons big band and recorded solos on "Kingfish" in 1949 and "There Will Never Be Another You" in 1950. From the end of the forties onward the use of improvised microphones
the A&R manager for Liberty Records. At their first meeting, Williams gave Dwight a stack of lyrics written by Bernie Taupin, who had answered the same ad. Dwight wrote music for the lyrics, and then mailed it to Taupin, and thus began a partnership that continues to this day. In 1967, what would become the first Elton John/Bernie Taupin song, "Scarecrow", was recorded; when the two first met, six months later, Dwight was going by the name "Elton John", in homage to Bluesology saxophonist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry. Empty Sky , Elton John's 1969 debut album, went largely unnoticed. The team of John and Taupin joined Dick James's DJM Records as staff songwriters in 1968, and over the next two years wrote material for various artists, like Roger Cook and Lulu. Taupin would write a batch of lyrics in underr an hour and give it to John, who would write music for them in half an hour, dispoosing of the lyrics if he couldn't come up with anything quickly