Jazz birthdays this week include:
May 15: Edmond Hall (1901-1967), Ellis Larkins (1923-2002), Joe Gordon (1928-1963), Karin Krog (1937)
May 16: Woody Herman (1913-1987), Eddie Bert (1922), Betty Carter (1930-1998), Billy Cobham (1944)
May 17: Paul Quinichette (1916-1983), Dewey Redman (1931), David Izenon (1932-1979), Jackie McLean (1932)
May 18: Pops Foster (1892-1969), Big Joe Turner (1911-1985), Kai Winding (1922-1983), Jim McNeely (1949)
May 19: Georgie Auld (1919-1990), Cecil McBee (1935), Sonny Fortune (1939), Richard Teitelbaum (1939), Tom Scott (1948)
May 20: Louis Smith (1931), Bob Florence (1932), Charles Davis (1933), Dino Saluzzi (1935), Rufus Harley (1936), Victor Lewis (1950), Ralph Peterson, Jr. (1962)
May 21: Fats Waller (1904-1943), Bill Holman (1927), Lawrence Marable (1929)
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