Jazz Birthdays Nov. 3 – 9

Jazz birthdays this week include:
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. 5:

Joe Sullivan (1906-1971)
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)
Nov. 9:

Mezz Mezzrow (1899-1972),

Pete Brown (1906-1963),

Muggsy Spanier (1906-1967),

Jesse Davis (1965)

Originally Published November 3, 2002