Jazz Birthdays Apr. 20 – 26

Jazz birthdays this week include:

Apr. 20:

Lionel Hampton (1909-2002),

Burt Bales (1916-1989),

Tito Puente (1923-2000),

Ran Blake (1935),

Beaver Harris (1936-1991),

Hans Kennel (1939),

Joe Bonner (1948)
Apr. 21:

Mundell Lowe (1922),

Slide Hampton (1932),

Pee Wee Ellis (1941),
April 22:

Candido (1921),

Charles Mingus (1922-1979),

Lou Stein (1922),

Oliver Jackson (1933-1994),

Paul Chambers (1935-1969),

Don Menza (1936),

Don Grusin (1941),

Barry Guy (1947)
April 23:

Jimmie Noone (1895-1944),

Benny Harris (1919-1975),

Bunky Green (1935),

Alan Broadbent (1947),

Kendra Shank (1958)
April 24:

Jimmy Griffin (1928),

Frank Strazzeri (1930),

Joe Henderson (1937-2001),

Collin Walcott (1945-1984),

Stafford James (1946)
April 25:

Earl Bostic (1913-1965),

Ella Fitzgerald (1918-1996),

Willis “Gator” Jackson (1932-1987),

Bobbi Humphrey (1950),

Carl Allen (1957)
April 26:

Ma Rainey (1886-1939),

Jimmy Giuffre (1921),

Teddy Edwards (1924) (pictured)

Originally Published April 20, 2003