Jazz Birthdays Jan. 16 – 18

Jazz birthdays this week include:

Jan. 12:

Trummy Young (1912-1984),

Jay McShann (1909),

Guy Lafitte (1927-1998),

Ronald Shannon Jackson (1940),

Olu Dara (1941),

George Duke (1946),

Jane Ira Bloom (1955),

Ivo Perelman (1961)
Jan. 13:

Percy Humphrey (1905-1995),

Danny Barker (1909-1994),

Quentin Jackson (1909-1976),

Vido Musso (1913-1982),

Melba Liston (1926-1999),

Joe Pass (1929-1994)
Jan. 14:

Billy Butterfield (1917-1988),

Kenny Wheeler (1930),

Grady Tate (1932),

Mark Egan (1951)
Jan. 15:

Gene Krupa (1909-1973),

Baikida Carroll (1947)
Jan. 16:

Sandy Block (1917),

Spike Robinson (1930-2001),

Aldo Romano (1941),

David Thomas Roberts (1955)
Jan. 17:

Big Sid Catlett (1910-1951),

Cedar Walton (1934),

Ted Dunbar (1937),

Billy Harper (1943),

Yves Robert (1958),

Cyrus Chestnut (1963) (pictured)
Jan. 18:

Johnny Costa (1922-1996),

Irene Kral (1932-1978),

Al Foster (1944),

Steve Grossman (1951),

Marilyn Mazur (1955)

Originally Published January 12, 2003