Jazz Birthdays April 25 – May 1

Jazz birthdays this week include:
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 (1924-2003) (pictured)
April 27:

Matty Matlock (1907-1978),

Connie Kay (1927-1994),

Ruth Price (1938),

Freddie Waits (1943-1989),

Tommy Smith (1967)
Apr. 28:

Mario Bauza (1911-1993),

Blossom Dearie (1926),

John Tchicai (1936),

Steve Khan (1947)
April 29:

Duke Ellington (1899-1974),

Toots Thielemans (1922),

Ray Barretto (1929),

Claus Ogermann (1930),

George Adams (1940-1992)
April 30:

Percy Heath (1923),

Dick Twardzik (1931-1955),

Abdul Wadud (1947)

May 1:

Ira Sullivan (1931),

Shirley Horn (1934),

Carlos Ward (1940),

James Newton (1953)

Originally Published April 25, 2004