Jazz Birthdays, Mar. 7 – 13

Jazz birthdays this week include:

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),

Zakir Hussain (1951)
Mar. 10:

Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931),

David Friedman (1944),

Mino Cinelu (1957)
Mar. 11:

Miff Mole (1898-1961),

Mercer Ellington (1919-1996),

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992),

Leroy Jenkins (1932),

Bobby McFerrin (1950),

Judy Niemack (1954)
Mar. 12:

Freddy Johnson (1904-1961),

Sir Charles Thompson (1918),

Willie Maiden (1928-1976),

Al Jarreau (1940)
Mar. 13:

Bob Haggart (1914-1998),

Dick Katz (1924),

Roy Haynes (1926),

Blue Mitchell (1930-1979),

Terence Blanchard (1962) (pictured)

Originally Published March 7, 2004