October 2008 Birthdays

[Allen H]

Additions or corrections always welcomed…


Happy 45th:
Niels Doky (3rd)

Happy 50th:
Ana Caram (1st)
Tyler Mitchell (7th)
Satoko Fujii (9th)
Howard Alden (17th)
Jon Lloyd (20th)
David Hazeltine (27th)
Kent Jordan (28th)

Happy 55th:
Lincoln Goines (2nd)
Garrison Fewell (14th)
Kazumi Watanabe (14th)
Joseph Bowie (17th)
Marc Johnson (21st)

Happy 60th:
Dave Samuels (9th)

Happy 65th:
Ursula Dudziak (22nd)

Happy 70th:
Mark Levine (4th)
Earl Williams (8th)

Happy 75th:
Torrie Zito (22nd)

Happy 80th:
Junior Mance (10th)
Clare Fischer (22nd)

Happy 90th:
Bebo Valdes (19th)


In Memoriam:
Jimmy Blanton - 90th anniversary (5th)
Johnny Burke - 100th (3rd)
Lee Wiley - 100th (9th)
Johnny Green - 100th (10th)


1

ANA CARAM - Brazilian singer - 50
TONY DUMAS - bassist - 53
MARK HELIAS - bassist - 58
DAVE HOLLAND - bassist - 62
JOSEPH PATRICK MOORE - bassist - 39
ANN RICHARDS - singer (1935 - 1982)
Vladimir Horowitz - concert pianist (1904 - 1989)

2

DJANGO BATES - pianist, composer - 48
LINCOLN GOINES - bassist - 55
BARBARA PARIS - singer - 54
RONNIE ROSS - baritone saxophonist (1933 - 1991)
PHIL URSO - tenor saxophonist - 83

3

EDGAR 'PUDDINGHEAD' BATTLE - composer/arranger, trumpeter (1907 - 1977)
JOHNNY BURKE - lyricist, "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," "It Could Happen To You" (1908 - 1964)
MIKE CLARK - drummer - 62
ALBERT COLLINS - bluesman (1932 - 1993)
NIELS DOKY - pianist - 45
VON FREEMAN - tenor saxophonist - 86
NANCY HARROW - singer - 78
RONNIE LAWS - tenor saxophonist - 58
DAVID MANN - songwriter, "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - 92
GEORGE WEIN - producer, pianist - 83
Steve Reich - composer - 72

4

WALTER BISHOP JR. - pianist (1927 - 1998)
PATTI CATHCART - singer, Tuck & Patti - 58
EDDIE GOMEZ - bassist - 64
STAN HASSELGARD - clarinetist (1922 - 1948)
BOB HURST - bassist - 44
CLAY JENKINS - trumpeter - 44
MARK LEVINE - pianist - 70
MAT MANERI - violinist, composer - 39
CHINO POZO - percussionist (1915 - 1980)
STEVE SWALLOW - bassist - 68
LEON THOMAS - singer (1937 - 1999)
SCOTT YANOW - journalist - 54

5

HELIO ALVES - pianist - 42
CLIFTON ANDERSON - trombonist - 51
JIMMY BLANTON - Ellington bassist (1918 - 1942)
THOMAS CLAUSEN - Danish pianist - 59
BILL DIXON - free jazz trumpeter, composer - 83
TORD GUSTAVSEN - Norwegian pianist - 38
TERRY TROTTER - pianist - 68

6

CARMEN MASTREN - guitarist (1913 - 1981)
NANETTE NATAL - singer - 63
AL PEARSON - KC trumpeter - 71
SAMMY PRICE - pianist (1908 - 1992)
MASAHIKO SATO - arranger/composer - 67
NORMAN SIMMONS - pianist - 79
MARK WHITFIELD - guitarist - 42

7

ANDRE JAUME - tenor saxophonist - 68
JO JONES - drummer (1911 - 1985)
TYLER MITCHELL - bassist - 50
BEVERLY PEER - bassist (1912 - 1997)
RALPH RAINGER - songwriter, "Easy Living" (1901 - 1942)
ALVIN STOLLER - drummer (1925 - 1992)
GEORGE YOUNG - saxophonist - 71
LARRY YOUNG - organist (1940 - 1978)
Yo-Yo Ma - cellist - 53

8

PEPPER ADAMS - baritone saxophonist (1930 - 1986)
STEVE BERNSTEIN - trumpeter - 47
J.C. HEARD - drummer (1917 - 1988)
HAL 'CORNBREAD' SINGER - tenor saxophonist - 89
BILL STEGMEYER - Dixieland clarinetist (1916 - 1968)
CLARENCE WILLIAMS - pianist (1893 - 1965)
EARL WILLIAMS - drummer - 70
Toru Takemitsu - composer (1930 - 1996)

9

SATOKO FUJII - pianist - 50
KENNY GARRETT - altoist - 48
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM - pianist, composer - 74
YUSEF LATEEF - tenor saxophonist, flute - 88
DAVE SAMUELS - vibist - 60
ELMER SNOWDEN - guitarist, banjo (1900 - 1973)
CHUCHO VALDES - pianist - 67
LEE WILEY - singer (1908 - 1975)
John Lennon - Beatle (1940 - 1980)
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Finnish composer - 80
Camille Saint-Saens - composer (1835 - 1921)
Giuseppe Verdi - composer (1813 - 1901)

10

FRANCISCO AGUABELLA - Cuban drummer - 83
ED BLACKWELL - drummer with Ornette Coleman (1929 - 1992)
LEE BLAIR - banjo player (1903 - 1966)
CECIL BRIDGEWATER - trumpeter, arranger - 66
OSCAR BROWN JR. - singer, lyricist (1926 - 2005)
VERNON DUKE - songwriter, “Autumn in New York" (1903 - 1969)
HARRY 'SWEETS' EDISON - trumpeter (1915 - 1999)
JOHNNY GREEN - songwriter, “Body and Soul," “I Cover the Waterfront" (1908 - 1989)
FREDDY JENKINS - trumpeter (1906 - 1978)
ROY KRAL - singer (1921 - 2002)
MILT LARKIN - ‘30s-‘40s bandleader, trumpeter (1910 - 1996)
JUNIOR MANCE - pianist - 80
THELONIOUS MONK - pianist, composer (1917 - 1982)
MONK MONTGOMERY - bassist (1921 - 1982)
JOHNNY O'NEAL - pianist - 52
DOUG SIDES - drummer - 66
JULIUS WATKINS - French horn player (1921 - 1977)

11

JOHNNY ACEA - pianist (1917 - 198?)
CURTIS AMY - tenor & soprano saxophonist (1929 - 2002)
ART BLAKEY - drummer (1919 - 1990)
LESTER BOWIE - trumpeter (1941 - 1999)
LAURA CAVIANI - singer - 46
TRUDY DESMOND - singer (1945 - 1999)
BILLY HIGGINS - drummer (1936 - 2001)
FRED HOPKINS - bassist (1947 - 1999)
NICKI LEIGHTON-THOMAS - singer - 41
PETER SPRAGUE - guitarist - 53
TEDDY WEATHERFORD - pianist (1903 - 1945)

12

HARRY ALLEN - tenor saxophonist - 42
JIMMY ARCHEY - trombonist with Earl Hines (1902 - 1967)
ED CHERRY - guitarist - 54
TUBBY HALL - drummer (1895 - 1946)
SANDRA KING - singer - 58
MICHAEL MOSSMAN - trumpet - 49
Luciano Pavarotti - opera singer (1935 - 2007)

13

RAY BROWN - bassist (1926 - 2002)
TERRY GIBBS - vibist - 84
ALBERT HAGUE - songwriter, "Young and Foolish" (1920 - 2001)
LEE KONITZ - altoist - 81
JULIA LEE - singer (1902 - 1958)
JOHNNY LYTLE - vibist (1932 - 1995)
PHAROAH SANDERS - tenor saxophonist - 68
ART TATUM - pianist (1909 - 1956)
Paul Simon - singer/songwriter - 67

14

GARRISON FEWELL - guitarist - 55
DUSKO GOYKOVICH - trumpeter - 77
JOHN GRAAS - French horn player (1924 - 1962)
RED McKENZIE - promoter (1899 - 1948)
KAZUMI WATANABE - guitarist - 55
SPENCER WILLIAMS - songwriter, pianist (1889 - 1965)
Kaija Saariaho - Finnish composer of Ears Open movement - 56

15

REID ANDERSON - Bad Plus bassist - 38
BILL CHARLAP - pianist - 42
FREDDY COLE - singer, pianist - 77
PALLE DANIELSSON - bassist - 62
KEITH JAVORS - pianist - 37
AL KILLIAN - trumpeter (1916 - 1950)
AMY LONDON - singer - 51
NELLIE LUTCHER - singer (1915 - 2007)
CHRIS NEVILLE - pianist - 53
JOE SANDERS - pianist/co-leader, Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (1896 - 1965)
VICTORIA SPIVEY - singer (1906 - 1976)

16

RAY ANDERSON - trombonist - 56
BEN ARONOV - pianist - 76
TIM BERNE - alto & baritone saxophonist - 54
LENNY HAMBRO - altoist, arranger (1923 - 1995)
ROY HARGROVE - trumpeter - 39
GENE JACKSON - drummer - 47
MAHALIA JACKSON - gospel singer (1911 - 1972)
ANTHONY KERR - vibist, marimba player - 43
BADAL ROY - percussionist - 63
BIG JOE WILLIAMS - bluesman (1903 - 1982)

17

HOWARD ALDEN - guitarist - 50
SATHIMA BEA BENJAMIN - singer - 72
LUIZ BONFA - Brazilian guitarist & composer, "Manha de Carnaval" (1922 - 2001)
JOSEPH BOWIE - trombonist with Defunkt - 55
COZY COLE - drummer (1906 - 1981)
LEE COLLINS - New Orleans trumpeter (1901 - 1960)
JIMMY HARRISON - trombonist (1900 - 1931)
BARNEY KESSEL - guitarist (1923 - 2004)
DAMON SMITH - Bay Area double bassist - 36

18

CHRIS ALBERTSON - jounnalist - 77
PAUL 'STUMP' EVANS - alto & baritone saxophonist (1904 - 1928)
ANNETTE HANSHAW - singer (1910 - 1985)
SPIKE HUGHES - bassist, composer (1908 - 1987)
CHRIS KELLY - early New Orleans cornetist (1885 - 1929)
WYNTON MARSALIS - trumpet, composer - 47
ANITA O'DAY - singer (1919 - 2006)
TONY PURRONE - guitarist - 54
MARSHALL STEARNS - author/journalist (1908 - 1966)
BILL STEWART - drummer - 42
BOBBY TROUP - singer, songwriter (1918 - 1999)
RON VINCENT - drummer - 57
GEORGE WASHINGTON - trombonist, big band arranger - 101
Chuck Berry - rocker - 82

19

RONNIE BURRAGE - drummer - 49
EDDIE DANIELS - clarinetist, tenor saxophonist - 67
VINICIUS DE MORAES - lyricist (1918 - 1980)
TIM GARLAND - tenor saxophonist - 42
CAROL KIDD - singer - 63
ALPHONSE PICOU - clarinetist (1878 - 1961)
JEAN-MICHEL PILC - pianist, composer - 48
RED RICHARDS - pianist (1917 - 1998)
BEBO VALDES - Cuban pianist - 90

20

JOHNNY BEST - trumpeter (1913 - 2003)
ANOUAR BRAHEM - oud player - 51
CHRIS CORSANO - drummer - 33
RUSSELL GUNN - trumpeter - 37
ADELAIDE HALL - singer (1901 - 1993)
EDDIE HARRIS - tenor saxophonist (1934 - 1996)
WILLIE JONES - drummer - 88
CARL KRESS - guitarist (1907 - 1965)
RAY LINN - big band trumpeter (1920 - 1996)
JON LLOYD - soprano & alto saxophonist - 50
JELLY ROLL MORTON - pianist, composer (1885 - 1941)
MARTIN TAYLOR - guitarist - 52
Charles Ives - composer (1874 - 1954)

21

JERRY BERGONZI - tenor saxophonist - 61
DON BYAS - tenor saxophonist (1912 - 1972)
CELIA CRUZ - Cuban salsa singer (1924 - 2003)
BOBBY FEW - pianist with A.Ayler, A.Shepp - 73
DIZZY GILLESPIE - trumpeter (1917 - 1993)
TED GIOIA - pianist, author - 51
FRED HERSCH - pianist - 53
MARC JOHNSON - bassist - 55
FRAN LANDESMAN - lyricist, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" - 81
TARUS MATEEN - bassist with J. Moran, Betty Carter - 41
DON RADER - trumpeter - 73
ALI RYERSON - flutist - 56
DAVID WEISS - trumpeter - 44
JULIE WILSON - singer - 84

22

JANE BUNNETT - soprano saxophonist & flutist - 52
URSULA DUDZIAK - singer - 65
CLARE FISCHER - pianist - 80
GIORGIO GASLINI - pianist, composer - 79
BERNARD PEIFFER - pianist, composer (1922 - 1976)
DOUG WAMBLE - guitarist - 36
TORRIE ZITO - arranger, pianist - 75
Franz Liszt - composer, piano virtuoso (1811 - 1886)

23

BETTY BENNETT - singer - 87
COOKIE COOGAN - singer, Jazz Corner poster - 43
SONNY CRISS - altoist (1927 - 1977)
GABRIELLE GOODMAN - singer - 43
GARY McFARLAND - vibist, arranger (1933 - 1971)
DIANNE REEVES - singer - 52
VINCENT RUGGIERI - pianist - 62
FATS SADI - vibist with Django, Byas - 82
GIANCARLO SCHIAFFINI - trombonist - 66
ERNIE WATTS - saxophonist - 63
Ned Rorem - composer, diarist - 85

24

JAY ANDERSON - bassist - 53
ANTHONY COX - bassist - 54
REIN DE GRAAFF - pianist - 66
BANU GIBSON - singer - 61
RICK MARGITZA - tenor saxophonist, composer - 47
WENDELL MARSHALL - bassist with Ellington (1920 - 2002)
DAN MORGENSTERN - journalist - 79
ODEAN POPE - tenor saxophonist - 69
SONNY TERRY - blues singer (1911 - 1986)
SANDY WILLIAMS - trombonist with Jelly Roll Morton, Chick Webb (1906 - 1991)
Luciano Berio - composer (1925 - 2003)
George Crumb - composer - 79
Sofia Gubaidulina - contemporary Russian composer - 77

25

FRANCK AMSALLEM - French pianist - 47
JOHN BUTCHER - soprano & tenor saxophonist - 54
BARBARA COOK - singer - 81
ROBIN EUBANKS - trombone - 53
TIM FORD - pianist, singer - 54
TIZIANA GHIGLIONI - singer - 52
JIMMY HEATH - tenor saxophonist, arranger - 82
TERUMASA HINO - trumpet, bandleader - 66
EDDIE LANG - guitarist (1902 - 1933)
SAM M. LEWIS - lyricist, "Street of Dreams," "For All We Know" (1885 - 1959)
ROBERTO MENESCAL - Brazilian songwriter/guitarist, "O Barquinho" - 71
REUBEN REEVES - trumpeter (1905 - 1975)

26

KEN ASCHER - composer & pianist - 64
CHARLIE BARNET - saxophonist/bandleader (1913 - 1991)
HANK DUNCAN - pianist (1896 - 1968)
EDDIE HENDERSON - trumpeter - 68
VIJAY IYER - pianist & composer - 37
RANEE LEE - singer - 66
WARNE MARSH - tenor saxophonist (1927 - 1987)
MILTON NASCIMENTO - Brazilian singer/songwriter, "Bridges" - 66
TONY PASTOR - tenor saxophonist (1907 - 1969)
Domenico Scarlatti - Baroque composer (1685 - 1757)

27

ARILD ANDERSEN - bassist - 63
PHILIP CATHERINE - guitarist - 66
SONNY DALLAS - bassist, educator (1931 - 2007)
BABS GONZALES - singer (1919 - 1980)
DAVID HAZELTINE - pianist - 50
BARRE PHILLIPS - bassist, composer - 74
BOYD RAEBURN - bandleader, bass saxophonist (1913 - 1966)
GEORGE WALLINGTON - pianist (1924 - 1993)
Dominick Argento - composer - 81
Conlon Nancarrow - composer (1912 - 1997)

28

ARTHUR ALTMAN - songwriter, "All Or Nothing At All" (1912 - 1994)
TUCK ANDRESS - Tuck & Patti guitarist - 56
ANDY BEY - singer - 69
RICHARD BONA - bassist - 41
JAY CLAYTON - singer - 67
ELTON DEAN - Soft Machine altoist (1945 - 2006)
BILL HARRIS - trombonist (1916 - 1973)
DINK JOHNSON - drummer, pianist (1892 - 1954)
KENT JORDAN - flutist - 50
JULIE KELLY - singer - 61
CLEO LAINE - singer - 81
GLEN MOORE - bassist - 67
ARTURO "CHICO" O'FARRILL - composer, arranger (1921 - 2001)
RUDY POWELL - clarinetist/saxophonist (1907 - 1976)
KURT ROSENWINKEL - guitarist - 38
BARBARA SFRAGA - singer - 52

29

MATS GUSTAFSSON - Swedish saxophonist/flutist/fluteophonist - 44
NEIL HEFTI - arranger - 86
MATTHIAS LUPRI - vibist - 44
ZOOT SIMS - tenor saxophonist (1925 - 1985)

30

CLIFFORD BROWN - trumpeter (1930 - 1956)
TOM BROWNE - trumpeter - 54
TRILOK GURTU - percussionist - 57
BOB KOESTER - Delmark label founder, Jazz Record Mart (Chicago) owner - 76
TEO MACERO - "Kind of Blue" producer - 83
ERROL PARKER - drummer, pianist (1925 - 1998)
PONCHO SANCHEZ - percussionist - 57
Eddie Holland - Motown songwriter (Holland-Dozier-Holland) - 69

31

BOB BELDEN - saxophonist & arranger - 52
BOOKER ERVIN - tenor saxophonist (1930 - 1970)
JOEL FRAHM - tenor saxophonist - ?
BOB GRAETTINGER - composer (1923 - 1957)
JOHN GUERIN - drummer (1939 - 2004)
ILLINOIS JACQUET - tenor saxophonist (1922 - 2004)
DENISE KING - singer - 54
TED NASH - tenor saxophonist - 86
GENE SANTORO - journalist (Nation) - 58
ETHEL WATERS - singer (1896 - 1977)

[Mike Schwartz]

SONGWRITERS BIRTHDAYS - OCTOBER

Oct. 3 (1908) Johnny Burke Lyrics: Here's That Rainy Day,
Misty, Like Someone In Love, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, It Could Happen
To You.

Oct. 3 (1916) David Mann Music: In The Wee Small Hours of the
Morning, There I've Said It Again, Don't Go To Strangers, No Moon At
All.

Oct. 6 (1893) Milton Ager Music: Happy Days Are Here Again,
What Good Am I Without You, Hard-Hearted Hannah, I'm Nobody's Baby

Oct. 7 (1900) Ralph Rainger Music: If I Should Lose You, With
Every Breath I Take, Ebb Tide, June In January, Easy Living.

Oct. 9 (1940) John Lennon Music & Lyrics: Imagine, Fool On The
Hill, Eleanor Rigby, Michelle, Penny Lane.

Oct. 9 (1948) Jackson Browne Music & Lyrics: That Girl Could
Sing, Doctor My Eyes, Running On Empty, The Pretender

Oct. 10 (1903) Vernon Duke Music: April In Paris, I Can't Get
Started, What Is There To Say, Taking A Chance On Love. Music &
Lyrics: Autumn In New York.

Oct. 10 (1908) Johnny Green Music: Body and Soul, I Cover The
Waterfront, Out of Nowhere, You're Mine You, Coquette.

Oct. 10 (1917) Thelonious Monk Music: 'Round Midnight, Straight
No Chaser, Ruby My Dear, Well You Needn't, Off Minor.

Oct. 11 (1913) Sunny Skylar Music & Lyrics: You're Breaking My
Heart, Waitin' For The Train To Come In, Are These Really Mine?, Gotta
Be This Or That.

Oct. 13 (1900) Gerald Marks Music & Lyrics: Is It True What
They Say About Dixie, All Of Me, I'll Cry Tomorrow.

Oct. 13 (1920) Albert Hague Music: Young And Foolish, Just For
Once.

Oct. 13 (1941) Paul Simon Music & Lyrics: Fifty Ways To Leave
Your Lover, The Sound of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Mrs.
Robinson, Still Crazy After All These Years

Oct. 14 (1889) Spencer Williams Music: Squeeze Me, I Found A New
Baby, Basin Street Blues, I Ain't Got Nobody.

Oct. 15 (1922) Robert Wells Music: When Joanna Loved Me, Here's
to the Losers. Lyrics: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an
Open Fire), Born to be Blue, >From Here to Eternity.

Oct. 18 (1918) Bobby Troup Music & Lyrics: Route 66, Baby Baby
All The Time, You're Lookin' At Me, The Meaning of The Blues. Lyrics:
Girl Talk.

Oct. 18 (1948) Laura Nyro Music & Lyrics: Stoney End, And When
I Die, Wedding Bell Blues, Eli's Coming.

Oct. 19 (1918) Jack Segal Lyrics: When Sunny Gets Blue,
Scarlet Ribbons, When Joanna Loved Me, Here's To The Losers. Music &
Lyrics: More Love.

Oct. 20 (1901) Frank Churchill Music: Whistle While You Work,
Someday My Prince Will Come, Heigh Ho, Love Is a Song.

Oct. 21 (1927) Fran Landesman Lyrics: Spring Can Really Hang
You Up The Most, Ballad Of The Sad Young Men, There Are Days When I
Don't Think of You At All, This Life We've Led, Nothing Like You.

Oct. 22 (1914) Sylvia Dee Lyrics: My Sugar Is So Refined, Too
Young, A House With Love In It.

Oct. 25 (1885) Sammy Lewis Lyrics: Gloomy Sunday, For All We
Know, Just Friends, I'm Sitting On Top of The World.

Oct. 28 (1912) Arthur Altman Music: All Or Nothing At All, The
Green Years, American Beauty Rose.

[shrugs]

Earl Cyril Palmer (October 25, 1924 - September 19, 2008)[1] was an American drummer and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[2]

Curtis John Arceneaux (born October 25, 1947), better known by the name Coco Robicheaux is an American musician and artist from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA.

[shrugs]

october 30, 1949 Otis Williams, [Otis Miles], Texas, rock vocalist, Temptations

[Jesse]

Happy birthday Brownie, love the Emarcy sides.

Joy Spring!