Jazz Birthdays Aug. 29 – Sept. 4

Jazz birthdays this week include:

Aug. 29:

Jack Teagarden (1905-1964),

Charlie Parker (1920-1955),

Dinah Washington (1924-1963),

Bennie Maupin (1946),

Doug Raney (1956)
Aug. 30:

Kenny Dorham (1924-1972),

John Surman (1944),

Rodney Jones (1956)
Aug. 31:

Edgar Sampson (1907-1973),

Gunter Hampel (1937),

Wilton Felder (1940),

Paul Winter (1939)
Sept. 1:

Art Pepper (1925-1982),

Gene Harris (1933-2000)
Sept. 2:

Phil Napoleon (1901-1990),

Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995),

Horace Silver (1928),

Clifford Jordan (1931-1993),

Walter Davis, Jr. (1932-1990),

John Zorn (1953) (pictured),

Steve Masakowski (1954)
Sept. 3:

Mickey Roker (1932),

Larry Ridley (1937),

Roy Brooks (1938),

James Dapogny (1940),

Peter Bernstein (1967),

David Sanchez (1968)
Sept. 4:

Meade Lux Lewis (1905-1964),

Gerald Wilson (1918),

Dave Liebman (1946),

Lonnie Plaxico (1960),

Bireli Lagrene (1966)

Originally Published August 29, 2004