September 2005 Birthdays

[Allen H]

SEPTEMBER 2005 BIRTHDAYS

Additions or corrections welcomed…


Happy 40th:
Ron Blake (7th)
Jesse Davis (11th)

Happy 45th:
Lonnie Plaxico (4th)
George Robert (15th)
Graham Haynes (16th)
Nils Petter Molvaer (18th)

Happy 50th:
Wayne Horvitz (1st)
Stacy Rowles (11th)

Happy 55th:
Giacomo Gates (14th)

Happy 60th:
Ira Nepus (5th)
Murray Wall (28th)

Happy 65th:
Willem Van Manen (3rd)
Roy Ayers (10th)
Dave Burrell (10th)
Alex Riel (13th)
Lisle Atkinson (16th)
Hamiet Bluiett (16th)
Gary Bartz (26th)
Mike Nock (27th)
Rod Mason (28th)
Sirone (Norris Jones) (28th)

Happy 70th:
Marion Brown (8th)
Les McCann (23rd)
Roland Alexander (25th)

Happy 75th:
Sonny Rollins (7th)
Muhal Richard Abrams (19th)
Irene Reid (23rd)

Happy 80th:
Eddie Duran (6th)
Alan Bergman (11th)
B.B. King (16th)

Happy 85th:
Bob Enevoldsen (11th)

Happy 90th:
Grachan Moncur Jr. (2nd)


In Memoriam:
Art Pepper - 80th (1st)
Ray Charles - 75th (23rd)
Kenny Kirkland - 50th (28th)


1
GENE HARRIS - pianist (1933-2000)
HILDE HEFTE - singer - 49
WAYNE HORVITZ - pianist, keyboards, bandleader - 50
VELMA MIDDLETON - singer with Louis Armstrong (1917-1961)
ED NEUMEISTER - trombonist with Mel Lewis Orch. - 53
ART PEPPER - altoist (1925-1982)
WILLIE RUFF - French horn player - 74
ED SUMMERLIN - tenor saxophonist, composer - 77
TERI THORNTON - singer (1934-2000)
Leonard Slatkin - National Symphony conductor - 61

2
LAURINDO ALMEIDA - Brazilian guitarist (1917-1995)
WALTER DAVIS JR. - pianist (1932-1990)
BARBARA DONALD - trumpeter - 63
CLIFFORD JORDAN - tenor saxophonist (1931-1993)
DAVE LEONHARDT - pianist - 49
SHERRIE MARICLE - drummer - 42
GRACHAN MONCUR JR. - bassist - 90
PHIL NAPOLEON - trumpeter (1901-1990)
EMIL RICHARDS - vibist - 73
HORACE SILVER - pianist, composer - 77
MIKE SOLAZZO - upstate NY bassist - 63
JOHN ZORN - altoist - 52

3
ROY BROOKS - drummer - 67
TODD COCHRAN - keyboardist - 54
ONAJE ALLAN GUMBS - pianist, composer - 56
ERNIE HENRY - altoist (1926-1957)
MEMPHIS SLIM - bluesman (1915-1988)
LARRY RIDLEY - bassist - 68
MICKEY ROKER - drummer - 73
DAVID SANCHEZ - tenor saxophonist - 37
WILLEM VAN MANEN - trombonist, composer - 65

4
MICHAEL COCHRANE - pianist, Lines of Reason - 57
BIRELI LAGRENE - guitarist - 39
MEADE LUX LEWIS - pianist (1905-1964)
DAVE LIEBMAN - tenor saxophonist - 59
AL NORRIS - guitarist with Jimmie Lunceford (1908-1974)
LONNIE PLAXICO - bassist - 45
HEINER STADLER - composer/pianist/bandleader - 63
HARRY TOBIAS - songwriter, "No Regrets," "It's A Lonesome Old Town" (1895-1994)
GERALD WILSON - trumpet, arranger, bandleader - 87
TOMMY WOLF - songwriter (1925-1979)

5
JOHN CAGE - composer (1912-1992)
ALBERT MANGELSDORFF - trombonist (1928-2005)
IRA NEPUS - trombonist in Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra - 60
RICHIE POWELL - pianist (1931-1956)
CHARLES 'BOBO' SHAW - drummer, founder of Black Artists Group - 58
Marc-Andre Hamelin - concert pianist - 44

6
DAVE BARGERON - trombonist - 63
BUDDY BOLDEN - trumpeter (1877-1931)
EDDIE DURAN - guitarist - 80
JOHN MALACHI - pianist, arranger for Sarah, Dinah, Mr. B (1919-1987)
PHIL MARKOWITZ - pianist - 53
CLAIRE MARTIN - singer - 38
BILLY ROSE - lyricist, "More Than You Know," "It's Only A Paper Moon," "Without A Song," "It Happened in Monterey" (1899-1966)
ANDREW WHITE - woodwinds player - 63
Joan Tower - composer - 67

7
ALVIN ALCORN - trumpeter - 93
BRUCE BARTH - pianist - 48
RON BLAKE - tenor & soprano saxophonist - 40
MAX KAMINSKY - trumpeter (1908-1994)
LITTLE MILTON - bluesman - 71
KEN McINTYRE - reeds (1931-2001)
JOE NEWMAN - trumpeter (1922-1992)
SONNY ROLLINS - tenor saxophonist - 75
Buddy Holly - rocker (1938-1959)

8
DAVE BOWMAN - pianist (1914-1964)
MARION BROWN - altoist - 70
JAMES CLAY - tenor saxophonist (1935-1994)
HOWARD DIETZ - lyricist (1896-1983)
ELMER SCHOEBEL - arranger, composer, "Prince of Wails" (1896-1970)
NORRIS TURNEY - altoist, multi-reeds, flutist for Duke (1921-2001)
WILBUR WARE - bassist (1932-1979)
BUTCH WARREN - bassist - 66
CHARLES 'SPECS' WRIGHT - drummer (1927-1963)
Antonin Dvorak - Czech composer (1841-1904)
Jimmie Rodgers - country singer (1897-1933)

9
ARTHUR FREED - lyricist, "Singin' in the Rain," "Should I?," "I Cried For You," "This Heart of Mine" (1894-1973)
ELVIN JONES - drummer (1927-2004)
GEORGE MRAZ - bassist - 61
ZBIGNIEW NAMYSLOWSKI - altoist, composer - 66
FRED STONE - trumpet & flugelhorn player (1935-1986)
Otis Redding - singer (1941-1967)

10
ROY AYERS - vibist - 65
DAVE BURRELL - pianist, composer - 65
CRAIG HARRIS - trombonist - 52
PRINCE LASHA - flutist, saxophonist - 76
CLIFF LEEMAN - drummer (1913-1986)
CHUCK REDD - drummer, vibist - 47

11
ALAN BERGMAN - lyricist - 80
HARRY CONNICK - singer, pianist - 38
JESSE DAVIS - altoist - 40
BOB ENEVOLDSEN - trombonist - 85
LORRAINE GELLER - pianist (1928-1958)
OLIVER JONES - pianist - 71
CHARLES MOFFETT - drummer (1929-1997)
PECK MORRISON - bassist (1919-1988)
STACY ROWLES - flugelhorn player - 50
VICTOR WOOTEN - bassist with Bela Fleck - 41
Arvo Part - Estonian composer - 70

12
CAT ANDERSON - trumpeter (1916-1981)
SCOTT HAMILTON - tenor saxophonist - 51
DEAN JOHNSON - bassist - 49
BRIAN LYNCH - trumpet - 49
ELLA MAE MORSE - singer, "Cow Cow Boogie" (1924-1999)
GERARD PRESENCER - trumpeter - 33
JOE SHULMAN - bassist on "Birth of the Cool" sessions (1923-1957)
STEVE TURRE - trombonist - 57

13
CHU BERRY - tenor saxophonist (1908-1941)
CHARLES BROWN - singer/pianist (1922-1999)
LODI CARR - singer - 72
LEONARD FEATHER - journalist (1914-1994)
BENGT HALLBERG - pianist, composer - 73
DICK HAYMES - singer (1916-1980)
ALEX RIEL - drummer - 65
LARRY SHIELDS - clarinetist, Orig. Dixieland Jazz Band (1893-1953)
DORIS TAUBER - songwriter, "Them There Eyes" (1907-1996)
MEL TORME - singer (1925-1999)
Arnold Schoenberg - composer (1874-1951)

14
BILL BERRY - cornetist (1931-2002)
JAY CAMERON - baritone saxophonist - 77
GIACOMO GATES - singer - 55
JOSEPH JARMAN - saxophonist - 68
OLIVER LAKE - altoist - 61
EDDIE MOORE - drummer (1940-1990)
JERRY VALENTINE - arranger - 91

15
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - altoist (1928-1975)
AL CASEY - guitarist (1915-2005)
STANLEY DANCE - journalist (1910-1999)
RAY GILBERT - lyricist, "Dindi," "Once I Loved" - 93
ROGER 'RAM' RAMIREZ - pianist, songwriter, "Lover Man" (1913-1994)
GEORGE ROBERT - altoist - 45
GENE ROLAND - trumpeter/arranger for Kenton, Herman (1921-1982)
ARVELL SHAW - bassist with Louis Armstrong (1923-2002)
BOBBY SHORT - singer (1924-2005)
CARLA WHITE - singer - 54
WESLA WHITFIELD - singer - 58

16
LISLE ATKINSON - bassist - 65
GORDON BECK - pianist - 69
HAMIET BLUIETT - baritone saxophonist - 65
CHARLIE BYRD - guitarist (1925-1999)
GRAHAM HAYNES - cornetist - 45
JON HENDRICKS - singer - 84
ULF JOHANSSON - Swedish tenor saxophonist (1931-1968)
B.B. KING - bluesman - 80
EARL KLUGH - guitarist - 51
ROD LEVITT - trombonist, arranger - 76
JOE VENUTI - violinist (1903-1978)
Nadia Boulanger - educator (1887-1979)

17
JOE COCUZZO - lyricist, drummer - 68
EARL MAY - bassist - 78
JACK McDUFF - organist (1926-2001)
BILL McKINNEY - bandleader, drummer (1895-1969)
ROBERTO MIGUEL MIRANDA - Los Angeles bassist - 59
LOUIS NELSON - trombonist (1902-1990)
JAY RODRIGUEZ - reeds - 38
RALPH SHARON - pianist, music director for Tony Bennett - 82
DAVID 'HAPPY' WILLIAMS - bassist - 59
Hank Williams Sr. - country singer (1923-1953)

18
JOHN FEDCHOCK - trombonist/arranger-composer/bandleader/educator - 48
MICHAEL FRANKS - singer - 61
TEDDI KING - singer (1929-1977)
STEVE MARCUS - tenor & sop saxophonist - 66
NILS PETTER MOLVAER - trumpeter - 45
EMILY REMLER - guitarist (1957-1990)
WILLARD ROBISON - songwriter, "A Cottage For Sale" (1894-1968)
STEVE SLAGLE - altoist - 54
FRANK SOCOLOW - tenor saxophonist (1923-1981)
SAM STEPT - songwriter, "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone," "I'm Painting the Town Red," "Comes Love" (1897-1964)
KATE WESTBROOK - singer, lyricist - 66

19
MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS - pianist, composer - 75
FRED AHLERT - songwriter, "Mean To Me," "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter" (1892-1953)
LOL COXHILL - saxophonist - 73
SPUD MURPHY - arranger for Goodman - 97
HELEN WARD - singer (1916-1998)

20
BILLY BANG - violinist - 58
STEVE COLEMAN - altoist - 49
JOHN COLLINS - guitarist (1913-2001)
JOHN DANKWORTH - altoist, composer - 78
BILL DE ARANGO - guitarist - 84
JOE GUY - trumpeter (1920-1962)
RED MITCHELL - bassist (1927-1992)
JACKIE PARIS - singer (1927-2004)
JOE TEMPERLEY - baritone saxophonist - 76
ROY TURK - lyricist, "Mean To Me," "I'll Get By" (1892-1934)
MONICA ZETTERLUND - singer (1937-2005)

21
CHICO HAMILTON - drummer - 84
SUNNY MURRAY - drummer - 68
FRANK ORCHARD - Dixieland valve trombonist (1914-1983)
TOMMY POTTER - bassist with Bird (1918-1988)
DON PRESTON - pianist - 73
SLAM STEWART - bassist (1914-1987)
WARD SWINGLE - Swingle Singers arranger, singer - 78
ANTHONY WONSEY - pianist - 34

22
TONY REEDUS - drummer - 46
MARLENA SHAW - singer - 61
BILL SMITH - clarinetist for Brubeck - 79
PEGGY STERN - pianist with L.Konitz, composer - 59
BUDDY STEWART - singer (1922-1950)

23
ALBERT AMMONS - guitarist (1907-1949)
RAY CHARLES - singer, pianist (1930-2004)
CARROLL COATES - songwriter - 76
JOHN COLTRANE - tenor saxophonist (1926-1967)
DOTTIE DODGION - drummer - 76
INGEBRIGT FLATEN - bassist - 34
FRANK FOSTER - tenor saxophonist, arranger - 77
MICHEL GAUDRY - bassist - 77
DON GROLNICK - pianist (1947-1996)
VINCE LATEANO - SF Bay area drummer - 63
LES McCANN - pianist, singer - 70
'WOODEN' JOE NICHOLAS - cornetist (1883-1957)
IRENE REID - singer - 75
JEREMY STEIG - flutist - 63
RICHIE VITALE - trumpeter - ?
NORMA WINSTONE - singer - 64
JIMMY WOODE - bassist (1929-2005)

24
JOHN CARTER - clarinetist, altoist, composer (1929-1991)
BILL CONNORS - guitarist - 56
WAYNE HENDERSON - trombonist - 66
HERB JEFFRIES - singer - 94
REBECCA KILGORE - singer - 57
FATS NAVARRO - trumpeter (1923-1950)
CARL SIGMAN - lyricist, "Crazy He Calls Me," "All Too Soon," "Ebb Tide," "If You Could See Me Now," "I Could Have Told You" (1909-2000)

25
ROLAND ALEXANDER - tenor & soprano saxophonist - 70
HORACE ARNOLD - drummer - 68
BARBARA DENNERLEIN - organist - 41
MIKE GIBBS - trombonist - 68
CRAIG HANDY - saxophonist - 43
AL HOFFMAN - songwriter, "Close To You," "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (1902-1960)
VICTOR JONES - drummer - 51
BILL PIERCE - tenor & soprano saxophonist - 57
SAM RIVERS - tenor & soprano saxophonist/flutist - 82
JACK STRACHEY - lyricist, "These Foolish Things" (1894-1972)
JOHN TAYLOR - pianist - 63
SHADOW WILSON - drummer (1919-1959)
ROBERT WRIGHT - songwriter, "Baubles, Bangles & Beads," "It's A Blue World" - 91
Glenn Gould - concert pianist (1932-1982)
Dmitri Shostakovich - composer (1906-1975)

26
GARY BARTZ - altoist - 65
GAL COSTA - Brazilian singer - 59
MARK DRESSER - bassist - 53
GEORGE GERSHWIN - songwriter (1898-1937)
VIC JURIS - guitarist - 52
JULIE LONDON - singer (1926-2000)
NICHOLAS PAYTON - trumpeter - 32
JIMMY REED - bluesman (1925-1976)
NELSON 'CADILLAC' WILLIAMS - trumpeter in postwar Ellington band (1917-1973)

27
GUIDO BASSO - trumpeter, arranger - 68
HANK LEVY - composer - 78
MIKE NOCK - pianist, Naxos Jazz head - 65
BUD POWELL - pianist, composer (1924-1966)
RED RODNEY - trumpeter (1927-1994)
JERRY WELDON - tenor saxophonist - 48
MATT WILSON - drummer - 41
VINCENT YOUMANS - songwriter (1898-1946)

28
PETER DELANO - pianist - 29
JOHN GILMORE - tenor saxophonist (1931-1995)
JAY HOGGARD - vibist - 51
KENNY KIRKLAND - pianist (1955-1998)
ROD MASON - trumpeter - 65
MARSHALL SEALY - French horn player - 51
SIRONE (NORRIS JONES) - Revolutionary Ensemble bassist - 65
KOKO TAYLOR - blues singer - 70
MURRAY WALL - bassist - 60
RAY WARLEIGH - altoist, flutist - 67
LAMMAR WRIGHT JR. - trumpeter (1927-1983)

29
ROY CAMPBELL - trumpeter - 53
DAVE KIKOSKI - pianist - 44
ROLF KUHN - clarinetist - 76
LOONIS McGLOHON - songwriter, arranger, pianist (1921-2002)
JEAN-LUC PONTY - violinist - 63
Jerry Lee Lewis - rocker - 70

30
JON EARDLEY - trumpeter (1928-1991)
SCOTT FIELDS - guitarist - 53
FRED FISHER - songwriter, "Chicago" (1875-1942)
ANTONIO HART - altoist - 37
CARMEN LEGGIO - tenor & altoist player - 78
STEVE McCALL - drummer (1933-1989)
OSCAR PETTIFORD - bassist (1922-1960)
BUDDY RICH - drummer (1917-1987)

[Mike Schwartz]

SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - SEPTEMBER

Sept. 2 (1928) Horace Silver Music & Lyrics: Song For My Father,
Doodlin', The Preacher, Senor Blues, Sister Sadie.

Sept. 4 (1897) Gus Arnheim Music: Sweet and Lovely, I Cried For

You

Sept. 4 (1925) Tommy Wolf Music: Spring Can Really Hang You Up
The Most, Ballad of The Sad Young Men, Laugh I Thought I'd Die, I've
Never Been Anything, Say Cheese.

Sept. 7 (1956) Diane Warren Music & Lyrics: Nothing Broken But
My Heart, All I Want Is Forever, I'll Be Your Shelter, Blame It On The
Rain.

Sept. 8 (1897) Howard Dietz Lyrics: Dancing In The Dark, You
And The Night And The Music, Alone Together, I See Your Face Before Me,
That's Entertainment, By Myself.

Sept. 9 (1894) Arthur Freed Lyrics: This Heart Of Mine, I Cried
For You, Singin' In The Rain, Should I?

Sept. 11 (1925) Alan Bergman Lyrics: Like a Lover, The Way We
Were, I'm a Stranger To Myself, Nice 'n' Easy, How Do You Keep the Music

Playing.

Sept. 13 (1925) Mel Torme Music & Lyrics: Born To Be Blue,
Lament To Love, A Stranger In Town, Welcome To The Club, The California
Suite (Entire Score). Music: The Christmas Song.

Sept. 15 (1912) Ray Gilbert Lyrics: Dindi, Once I Loved, Without
You, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.

Sept. 16 (1921) Jon Hendricks Lyrics: One Note Samba, Sermonette,

Bijou, Four Brothers. Music & Lyrics: Gimme That Wine.

Sept. 17 (1923) Hank Williams Music & Lyrics: Cold Cold Heart,
Hey Good Lookin', Jambalaya, Your Cheatin' Heart, Honky Tonk Blues.

Sept. 18 (1897) Sam Stept Music: Comes Love, Don't Sit Under The
Apple Tree, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Seems Like Old
Times.

Sept. 19 (1892) Fred Ahlert Music: Walkin' My Baby Back Home,
Mean To Me, I'll Get By, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a
Letter, I Don't Know Why.

Sept. 20 (1892) Roy Turk Lyrics: Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Mean

To Me, I'll Get By, I Don't Know Why.

Sept. 21 (1934) Leonard Cohen Music & Lyrics: Bird on the Wire,

Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye, I'm Your Man, First We Take Manhattan,

Dance Me to the End of Love.

Sept. 23 (1949) Bruce Springsteen Music & Lyrics: The River,
Born In The U.S.A., Fire, Blinded By the Light, My Hometown.

Sept. 24 (1907) Ben Oakland Music: A Pink Cocktail For a Blue
Lady, If I Love Again, I'll Take Romance.

Sept. 24 (1909) Carl Sigman Music: Crazy He Calls Me, Ballerina.

Lyrics: What Now My Love, Ebb Tide, It's All In The Game.

Sept. 24 (1931) Anthony Newley Music & Lyrics: What Kind of Fool
Am I?, Gonna Build a Mountain, Sweet Beginning, Look At That Face, Who
Can I Turn To?

Sept. 25 (1902) Al Hoffman Music: I Saw Stars, I Apologize, The
Story Of A Starry Night, There's No Tomorrow.

Sept. 26 (1898) George Gershwin Music: The Man I Love, S'
Wonderful, But Not For Me, A Foggy Day, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm,
Somebody Loves Me, Who Cares?, Love Is Here To Stay, I've Got a Crush On

You.

Sept. 26 (1916) Marvin Fisher Music: When Sunny Gets Blue,
Strange, Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You, I Keep Going Back To
Joe's, Love Is A Serious Thing.

Sept. 27 (1885) Joseph McCarthy Lyrics: You Made Me Love You, I'm
Always Chasing Rainbows, You've Got Me Out On a Limb.

Sept. 27 (1898) Vincent Youmans Music: Tea For Two, Sometimes I'm

Happy, More Than You Know, Without A Song, Time On My Hands.

Sept. 29 (1921) Loonis McGlohon Music: A Long Night, Blueberry
Winter, South To a Warmer Place, Songbird.

Sept. 30 (1875) Fred Fisher Music: & Lyrics: Chicago, Peg O' My
Heart, Whispering Grass, Dardanella.

[Mike Schwartz]

09/18 Trombonist/arranger-composer/bandleader/educator John Fedchock [arranger isn't the primary thing for this guy]

[Lois Gilbert]

Interestingly enough I heard from both Michael Cochrane and Onaje Allan Gumbs today

(Michael's bday is today and Onaje's was yesterday) they have both pledged to do a large portion of their net proceeds from the sales of their CDs to the Hurricane Relief fund.

Happy Birthday and thank you guys!

[Allen H]

I revised the list - Al Casey didn't quite make it to his 90th, unfortunately.