April/May Jazz birthdays

01__ Harry Carney – Born 1910
01__ Duke Jordan – Born 1922
01__ John Laporta – Born 1920

02__ Larry Coryell – Born 1943
02__ Booker Little – Born 1938

03__ Eric Kloss – Born 1949
03__ Jimmy McGriff – Born 1936
03__ Harold Vick – Born 1936

04__ Michel Camilo – Born 1952
04__ Jake Hanna – Born 1931
04__ Hugh Masekela – Born 1939

05__ Evan Parker – Born 1944
05__ Stanley Turrentine – Born 1934

06__ Gene Bertoncini – Born 1937
06__ Bill Hardman – Born 1933
06__ Gerry Mulligan – Born 1927
06__ Andre Previn – Born 1929
06__ Charlie Rouse – Born 1924
06__ Horace Tapscott – Born 1934
06__ Art Taylor – Born 1929
06__ Randy Weston – Born 1926

07__ Bob Berg – Born 1951
07__ Victor Feldman – Born 1934
07__ Billie Holliday – Born 1915
07__ Freddie Hubbard – Born 1938
07__ Pete Laroca – Born 1938
07__ Mongo Santamaria – Born 1922
07__ Alex Schlippenbach – Born 1938

08__ Carmen McRae – Born 1920

10__ Walter Bishop, Jr – Born 1927
10__ Denny Zeitlin – Born 1938

12__ Johnny Dodds – Born 1892
12__ Lionel Hampton – Born 1909
12__ Herbie Hancock – Born 1940

13__ Teddy Charles – Born 1928
13__ Bud Freeman – Born 1906

14__ Gene Ammons – Born 1925
14__ Shorty Rogers – Born 1924

15__ Richard Davis – Born 1930

16__ Herbie Mann – Born 1930

17__ Chris Barber – Born 1930
17__ Han Bennink – Born 1942
17__ Jan Hammer – Born 1948
17__ Sam Noto – Born 1930
17__ Buster Williams – Born 1942

18__ Hal Galper – Born 1938
18__ Leo Parker – Born 1925

20__ Ran Blake – Born 1935
20__ Beaver Harris – Born 1936
20__ Tito Puente – Born 1923

21__ Ian Carr – Born 1933
21__ Slide Hampton – Born 1932
21__ Mundell Lowe – Born 1922

22__ Paul Chambers – Born 1935
22__ Don Menza – Born 1936
22__ Charles Mingus – Born 1922

24__ Aaron Bell – Born 1922
24__ Johnny Griffin – Born 1928
24__ Joe Henderson – Born 1937
24__ Stafford James – Born 1946
24__ Frank Strazzeri – Born 1930
24__ Collin Walcott – Born 1945

25__ Earl Bostic – Born 1913__
25__ Ella Fitzgerald – Born 1918
25__ Willis Jackson – Born 1932

26__ Teddy Edwards – Born 1924
26__ Jimmy Giuffre – Born 1921

28__ Mario Bauza – Born 1911
28__ Willie Colon – Born 1950
28__ Blossom Dearie – Born 1926
28__ Steve Khan – Born 1947
28__ John Tchicai – Born 1936

29__ George Adams – Born 1940
29__ Ray Barretto – Born 1929
29__ Duke Ellington – Born 1899
29__ Big Jay McNeely – Born 1928
29__ Jean Toots Thielemans – Born 1922

30__ Abdul Wadud – Born 1947

M A Y

01__ Shirley Horn – Born 1934
01__ James Newton – Born 1953
01__ Ira Sullivan – Born 1931
01__ Carlos Ward – Born 1940

02__ Bing Crosby – Born 1904

03__ Jimmy Cleveland – Born 1926
03__ Yank Lawson – Born 1911
03__ John Lewis – Born 1920

04__ Ron Carter – Born 1937
04__ Maynard Ferguson – Born 1928
04__ Don Friedman – Born 1935
04__ Lars Gullin – Born 1928
04__ Richard Williams – Born 1931

05__ Paul Barbarin – Born 1899
05__ Stanley Cowell – Born 1941
05__ Fred Astaire – Born 1899
05__ Bix Beiderbecke – Born 1903
05__ Jack Walrath – Born 1946

06__ David Friesen – Born 1942

08__ Keith Jarrett – Born 1945
08__ Mary Lou Williams – Born 1910

10__ Mel Lewis – Born 1929

11__ Irving Berlin – Born 1888
11__ Carla Bley – Born 1938
11__ J C Higginbotham – Born 1906
11__ King Oliver – Born 1885

12__ Gary Peacock – Born 1935
12__ Gerald Wiggins – Born 1922

13__ Gil Evans – Born 1912
13__ Red Garland – Born 1923
13__ Woody Herman – Born 1913__
13__ Maxine Sullivan – Born 1911

14__ Sidney Bechet – Born 1897

15__ Edmond Hall – Born 1901
15__ Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Born 1936
15__ Ellis Larkins – Born 1923

16__ Eddie Bert – Born 1922
16__ Betty Carter – Born 1930
16__ Billy Cobham – Born 1946
16__ Michael Moore – Born 1945

17__ Jackie McLean – Born 1932
17__ Paul Quinichette – Born 1916
17__ Dewey Redman – Born 1931

18__ Big Joe Turner – Born 1911
18__ Kai Winding – Born 1922

21__ Lawrence Marable – Born 1929
21__ Fats Waller – Born 1904

22__ Sun Ra – Born 1914

23__ Richie Beirach – Born 1947
23__ Rosemary Clooney – Born 1928
23__ Famoudou Don Moye – Born 1946
23__ Artie Shaw – Born 1910
23__ Marvin Stamm – Born 1939

24__ Charles Earland – Born 1941
24__ Archie Shepp – Born 1937

25__ Miles Davis – Born 1926
25__ Jimmy Hamilton – Born 1917

26__ Shorty Baker – Born 1914
26__ Lew Tabackin – Born 1940

27__ Dee Dee Bridgewater – Born 1950
27__ Ramsey Lewis – Born 1935
27__ Albert Nicholas – Born 1900
27__ Niels-Henning =D8rsted-Pedersen – Born 1946
27__ Bud Shank – Born 1926

28__ Russ Freeman – Born 1926
28__ Andy Kirk – Born 1898
28__ Tommy Ladnier – Born 1900

29__ Freddie Redd – Born 1927
29__ Hilton Ruiz – Born 1952

30__ Harry Beckett – Born 1935
30__ Sidney de Paris – Born 1905
30__ Benny Goodman – Born 1909
30__ Dave McKenna – Born 1930