Jazz Birthdays Dec. 7 – 13

Jazz birthdays this week include:

Dec. 7: Teddy Hill (1909-1978), Louis Prima (1911-1978), Matthew Shipp (1960) (pictured)

Dec. 8: Jimmy Smith (1925)

Dec. 9:

Bob Scobey (1916-1963),

Donald Byrd (1932),

Jimmy Owens (1943),

Kip Hanrahan (1954)
Dec. 10:

Ray Nance (1913-1976),

Bob Cranshaw (1932),

Don Sebesky (1937),

Franco Ambrosetti (1941),

Michael Lang (1941),

Paul Hardcastle (1957)
Dec. 11:

Lou Rawls (1935),

McCoy Tyner (1938)
Dec. 12:

Eddie Barefield (1909-1991),

Frank Sinatra (1915-1998),

Joe Williams (1918-1999),

Bob Dorough (1923),

Dodo Marmarosa (1925),

Toshiko Akiyoshi (1929),

John Hicks (1941),

Grover Washington, Jr. (1943-1999),

Tony Williams (1945-1997)
Dec. 13:

Sonny Greer (1895-1982),

Jackie Davis (1920),

Ben Tucker (1930),

Reggie Johnson (1940),

Mark Elf (1949)

Originally Published December 7, 2003