Jazz Birthdays, April 7-13

Jazz birthdays this week include:

Apr. 7:

Billie Holiday (1915-1959),

Peanuts Hucko (1918),

Mongo Santamaria (1922),

Victor Feldman (1934-1987),

Freddie Hubbard (1938),

Pete LaRoca (1938),

Pat LaBarbara (1944),

Bob Berg (1951)
Apr. 8:

Carmen McRae (1920-1994)
Apr. 9:

Sharkey Bonano (1902-1972),

Reuben Wilson (1933),

Steve Gadd (1945)
Apr. 10:

Walter Bishop, Jr. (1927-1998),

Fraser MacPherson (1928-1993),

Claude Bolling (1930),

Denny Zeitlin (1938),

Joey DeFrancesco (1971)
Apr. 11:

John Levy (1912)
Apr. 12:

Johnny Dodds (1892-1940),

Tommy Turrentine (1928),

Herbie Hancock (1940) (pictured left),

Marty Krystall (1951),

Ryan Kisor (1973)
Apr. 13:

Bud Freeman (1906),

Teddy Charles (1928)

Originally Published April 7, 2002