Jazz Birthdays Nov. 2 – 8

Jazz birthdays this week include:

Nov. 2:

Bunny Berigan (1908-1942),

Johnny Richards (1911-1968),

Herb Geller (1928),

Phil Woods (1931),

Phil Minton (1940),

Kurt Elling (1967)
Nov. 3:

Joe Turner (1907-1990),

Billy Mitchell (1926-2001),

Henry Grimes (1935),

Joe McPhee (1939),

Azar Lawrence (1953)
Nov. 4:

Joe Sullivan (1906-1971),

Ralph Sutton (1922-2001),

Larry Bunker (1928),

Willem Breuker (1944)
Nov. 6:

Dick Cathcart (1924-1993),

Francy Boland (1929),

Bernard Purdie (1939),

Arturo Sandoval (1949) (pictured),

Foley McCreary (1963)
Nov. 7:

Joe Bushkin (1916),

Howard Rumsey (1917),

Al Hirt (1922-1999),

Alvin Batiste (1932),

David S. Ware (1949),

Kitty Margolis (1955)
Nov. 8:

Chris Connor (1927),

James Clay (1935-1994),

Bertha Hope (1936),

Don Byron (1958),

Russell Malone (1963)

Originally Published November 2, 2003