April 8: Carmen McRae (1920-1994)
April 9: Sharkey Bonano (1902-1972), Reuben Wilson (1935), Steve Gadd (1945)
April 10: Walter Bishop, Jr. (1927-1998), Fraser MacPherson (1928-1993), Claude Bolling (1930), Denny Zeitlin (1938), Joey DeFrancesco (1971)
April 11: John Levy (1912)
April 12: Johnny Dodds (1892-1940), Tommy Turrentine (1928-1997), Herbie Hancock (1940), Marty Krystall (1951), Ryan Kisor (1973)
April 13: Bud Freeman (1906-1991), Teddy Charles (1928)
April 14: Shorty Rogers (1924-1994), Gene Ammons (1925-1974), Eliot Zigmund (1945)
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