Jazz Birthdays, Mar. 2 – 9

Jazz birthdays this week include:

Mar. 2:

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (1922-1986),

Doug Watkins (1934-1962),

Buell Neidlinger (1936),

Larry Carlton (1948)
Mar. 3:

Barney Bigard (1906-1980),

Pierre Michelot (1928),

Jimmy Garrison (1934-1976),

Sergio Salvatore (1981)
Mar. 4:

Art Hodes (1904),

Bobby Jaspar (1926-1963),

Cy Touff (1927),

Barney Wilen (1937-1996),

David Darling (1941),

Bobby Shew (1941),

Jan Garbarek (1947),

Ricky Ford (1954),

Kermit Driscoll (1956)
Mar. 5:

Lou Levy (1928-2001),

Wilbur Little (1928-1987),

Jack Nimitz (1928)
Mar. 6:

Red Callender (1916-1992),

Howard McGhee (1918-1987),

Wes Montgomery (1925-1968),

Peter Brotzmann (1941),

Palle Mikkelborg (1941),

Robin Kenyatta (1942),

Flora Purim (1942),

Charles Tolliver (1942)
Mar. 7:

Nat Gonella (1908-1998),

Lee Young (1917),

Eric Allison (1951)
Mar. 8:

Dick Hyman (1927),

George Coleman (1935),

Gabor Szabo (1936-1982),

James Williams (1951),

Billy Childs (1957)
Mar. 9:

Herschel Evans (1909-1939),

Ornette Coleman (1930) (pictured),

Zakir Hussain (1951)

Originally Published March 2, 2003