Jazz Birthdays April 21 – 27

Jazz birthdays this week include:

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)
April 27:

Matty Matlock (1907-1978),

Connie Kay (1927-1994),

Ruth Price (1938),

Freddie Waits (1943-1989),

Tommy Smith (1967)

Originally Published April 21, 2002