Jazz Birthdays May 16 – 22

Jazz birthdays this week include:

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) (pictured),

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)
May 22:

Sun Ra (1914-1993),

Jackie Cain (1928),

Kenny Ball (1930),

Dick Berk (1939),

Eddy Louiss (1941)

Originally Published May 16, 2004