03/19/06

Jazz Birthdays March 19-25

Jazz birthdays this week include:

March 19: Buster Harding (1917-1965), Curley Russell (1917-1986), Lennie Tristano (1919-1978), Lem Winchester (1928-1961), Bill Henderson (1930), Mike Longo (1939), David Schnitter (1948), Eliane Elias (1960)

March 20: Marian McPartland (1918), Harold Mabern (1936), Jon Christensen (1943)

March 21: Sir Charles Thompson (1918), Amina Claudine Myers (1942), Tiger Okoshi (1950)

March 22: Mike Westbrook (1936), Hugo Rasmussen (1941), George Benson (1943), Bob Mover (1952), Jan Lundgren (1966)

March 23: Johnny Guarnieri (1917-1985), Dave Frishberg (1933), Dave Pike (1938), Gerry Hemingway (1955)

March 24: Steve Kuhn (1938), Paul McCandless (1947), Hank Roberts (1955), Renee Rosnes (1962), Dave Douglas (1963)

March 25: Sweet Emma Barrett (1897-1983), Pete Johnson (1904-1967), Paul Motian (1931), Cecil Taylor (1933), Bobby Militello (1950), Makoto Ozone (1961)