05/17/09

Jazz Birthdays May 17-23

By JazzTimes

May 17: Paul Quinichette (1916-1983), Dewey Redman (1931-2006), David Izenon (1932-1979), Jackie McLean (1932-2006)

May 18: Pops Foster (1892-1969), Big Joe Turner (1911-1985), Kai Winding (1922-1983), Jim McNeely (1949)

May 19: Georgie Auld (1919-1990), Cecil McBee (1935), Sonny Fortune (1939), Richard Teitelbaum (1939), Tom Scott (1948)

May 20: Louis Smith (1931), Bob Florence (1932-2008), Charles Davis (1933), Dino Saluzzi (1935), Rufus Harley (1936-2006), Victor Lewis (1950), Ralph Peterson, Jr. (1962)

May 21: Fats Waller (1904-1943), Bill Holman (1927), Larance Marable (1929)

May 22: Sun Ra (1914-1993), Jackie Cain (1928), Kenny Ball (1930), Dick Berk (1939), Eddy Louiss (1941)

May 23: Artie Shaw (1910-2004), Humphrey Lyttelton (1921-2008), Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002), Daniel Humair (1938), Marvin Stamm (1939), Famoudou Don Moye (1946), Richie Beirach (1947), Ken Peplowski (1959)